[Postcard, unsigned} 
Vevey, 4 September 1882 
H6tel du Léman 

Dear Frep, 

Laura will be writing to you at length about events, or rather the 
uneventfulness here, since we are living in the Land of Cockaigne.*’* 
Like others, we have been for trips on the Lake. 

On 31st August I got Jennychen’s letter enclosing your letter ?°* 
and the cheque which last I handed in at the local bank of Genton et 
Co. for encaissement* in Paris. 

On 31 August, Ist, 2nd and 3rd Sepremser marvellous weather (too 
hot yesterday). Today wet and stormy; hope it won’t degenerate into 
general rain. Odd that I should still be coughing; I think I’m the only 
person in Vevey who coughs; at all events J haven’t met anyone else 
who does. My General state, however, is most satisfactory; with Laura 
I climbed not only to the top of the local vineyard, but also to the top 
of the much higher vineyard at Montreux, without feeling the slight- 
est discomfort. 

I was called on at our hotel by a Mr Songeon, président du conseil mu- 
nicipal de Paris’; is one of the réfugiés* whom I knew in London 
in 1849-1850. He presented me with the official report made to 
the conseil municipal of Paris by the deputation (amongst whom 
Mr Songeon) it had sent to Rome for Garibaldi’s apotheosis 37°; 
the thing is mainly concerned with ‘Songeon’s’ own apotheosis, 
since he always acted as spokesman for the other French delegates. 
Also showed me a copy of Capital which is to accompany him to the 
sylvan retreat not far removed from here, whither he was wending 
his way. 

So far the English haven’t made such rapid progress in Egypt 35° as 
Wolseley ‘prognosticated’. 

Mr Virchow, or so I see from the supplément to yesterday’s Journal 
de Genéve, has again demonstrated that he is far and away above 

c 

 collection-* Chairman of the Municipal Council of Paris -° refugees 

Darwin, he alone, in fact, being scientific and hence also ‘contemp- 
tuous’ of organic chemistry. 

[On the side reserved for the address] 

Fr. Engels, Esq. 
122 Regent’s Park Road, 
London, N.W., Angleterre