[London,| 27 January 1891 
122 Regent’s Park Road, N.W. 

Dear Mr Scheu, 

Please forgive me for having kept you waiting so long for a reply to 
your kind note of the 10th.!?° But in the first place I have had an ex- 
tremely urgent job to do, secondly, owing to appointments with doc- 
tors, the timing of which did not depend on me, I have virtually never 
been master of my own time and, thirdly, the weather has not, until 
quite recently, been propitious for photography. — 

I shall, I think, now be at your disposal—-at any rate as from the 
day after tomorrow, especially if you are able to give me 12 or 24- 
hours’ notice. I thought I might again go to Debenham quite close 
by, but would go to anyone else you like (save for Mayall, who re- 
fused to take money from Marx, which makes it génant*) and I should be 
very glad if you were also to attend and yourself explain to the man 
what you want and how you want it. 

With kind regards, 

Yours sincerely, 

F. Engels