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[Postcard] [Argenteuil,] 15 June 1882 

Dear Frep, 

I thought I should be able to report progress over the past week or 
so. But the temperature fell as soon as I arrived, in fact one day after my 
arrival. The weather, therefore, according to what I’ve’ been told by 
Dr Dourlen, as also by his Medical Friend* in Enghien, won’t allow me 
to begin my sulphur treatment yet. In my former condition, during 
the happy time when I could smoke, I should have found the weather 
DELIGHTFUL. True, the sky is overcast more often than not, a bit of rain 
now and again, gusts of wind, not so much summer as late autumn, 
but nice weather for all that, if you’re in good health! 

Yesterday — as a result of a note to St Paul the Gascon-—— he came 
to visit me.*? T wasctap To see HIM. In compliance with my avis‘ he will 
keep silent — until further orders— about my presence here. 

I go early to bed, get up late, spend a large part of the day with the 
children and Jennychen and take advantage of every favourable 
moment to go for a short stroll. All things considered I feel better 
than at any Time in Algiers, Monte Carlo or Cannes. It seems likely 
that the weather too will change for the better here. I shall write you 
a letter as soon as I’ve made my first trip to Enghien. 

Best wishes to everyone. 

Your 
Moor 

Tussychen has sent Jennychen an interesting eye-witness account 
of the Hyde Park meeting.??° 
[On the side reserved for the address] 
Fr. Engels 
122 Regent’s Park Road, 
London, N. W., Angleterre