London, 18 December 1881 

Dear Mr Kautsky, 

I got the telegram from you and Bernstein at 3.50 this afternoon 
and am glad to be able to inform you that Marx has now recovered to 

* See this volume, p. 163. 

the extent that he can be sent — initially — to the south coast of En- 
gland. He will be going there in the course of this week; as soon as he 
has grown a little more accustomed to the open air and there is no 
further fear of a relapse, he will then probably move on to the south of 
Europe and spend some time there. 

I couldn’t reply to you by telegram, as it would have meant going 
to the Cenrrar Orrice and, as usual, I had Pumps, her husband? and 
Sam Moore (all of whom send you their best wishes) here for a meal 
and later on, as you can imagine, more people dropped in. There 
would hardly be any point in telegraphing tomorrow as this letter 
will doubtless arrive just as soon (+).” 

About the Poles, something presently ?2*; things here have been 
rather at sixes and sevens of late. 

So the galité is appearing again. Almost all the articles in No. 1 
begin quite splendidly and end up most disappointingly.?%! I 
haven’t seen No, 2 yet. 

Best wishes to Bernstein. 

Yours 

F. Engels