London, 14 May 1895 
41 Regent’s Park Road, N. W. 

My dear Lohr 

I was extremely glad, and indeed so were Louise and Ludwig to learn that 
both you and Paul were ready and willing to come over here for a bit, and I 
should have written at once in reply, had it not been for those confounded 
pains which for a week nearly drove me mad and even now have not left me, 
anything but painless, but extremely stupid and unfit for anything. The fact is 
this. Some time ago I got a swelling on the right side of the neck, which after 
some time resolved itself into a bunch of deep-seated glands infiltrated by 
some cause or other. The pains arose from direct pressure of that lump on the 
nerve and will of course only give way when that pressure disappears. At 
present a process of resorption is going on very satisfactorily, but a couple of 
these glands are suppurating and will have to be cut; and as they are so deep- 
seated and slow in coming to the surface, and we old people being such slow 
coaches, the time for the operation cannot be exactly fixed, but it is hoped 
will come off this week. That once performed I am ordered to the sea-side; 
but the uncertainty is still about the time. 

Now as things are situated, would it not be the best thing for you to come 
over say in the course of next week, and then as soon as possible you and I 
could bundle off to Eastbourne *” and settle down in comfortable quarters 
and prepare for visitors from London. I say you and I, because I intend to 
keep you here a good bit longer than very likely Paul would care to separate 
himself from his studies and your animals and the garden work; so he 
perhaps would prefer to do as you say and come tumbling after. 

When I shall have cleared out from here, Louise intends giving my two 
rooms a good cleaning down and after that she might come and join us with 
her baby for a week or so; after that Tussy and Edward might come, and then 
Paul who by that time is sure to be tired of his solitude, and then 

we might bethink ourselves of returning all of us to London and show Paul 
our new establishment too. 

This is such a sort of rough prospectus as a man with neuralgic pains in 
the head after a series of sleepless nights has been able to excogitate under 
the present indefinite conditions, and therefore subject to alterations as novel 
circumstances and novel ideas may command. It is humbly submitted to you 
for approval or improvement as may be. 

The heat is insupportable, 22°C in the room all day long—no wind, clouds 
and impending thunder which unfortunately keeps impending. And that 2 
months after that hard frost! 

Kind regards from the Freybergers to both of you. Amitiés a Paul et au 
revoir. 

I enclose cheque £10—for your journey hither and any little additions you 
may like to make to your outfit. 

So please say when we may expect you. 

Ever yours, 
F. Engels 

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