ENGELS TO GEORGE WILLIAM LAMPLUGH, G. W.*™ 

London, 10 January 1894 
122 Regent’s Park Road, N. W. 

My dear Lamplugh, 

Your parcel was an agreeable surprise indeed. Many thanks! I am almost 
ashamed to confess that in my ignorance I had fancied the Anatomy of 
Melancholy to be one of the serious psychological disquisitions of the 18" 
century, which I hold in horror. Now I find that it, too, is a product of the 
grandest epoch of English literature, the beginning of the 17" century. I turn 
to it with pleasure, and have already seen enough to assure me that it will 
prove a constant source of enjoyment. 

This reminds me that I have forgotten to let you have the only two works 
of mine that have been published in English*—I have made free to send 
them, to you by post and hope you will do me the favour of accepting them. 

Dakyns told me on Sunday you were afraid of your little boy getting the 
influenza. Although there is more about of this beastly complaint than is 
desirable, I hope the danger has blown over. 

Reciprocating your kind wishes for the New Year and with kind regards to 

Mrs Lamplugh. 
I remain yours faithfully F. 
Engels