Marx-Engels Correspondence 1858
Source: MECW Volume 40, p. 314;
First published: in: Marx and Engels, Works, Moscow, 1929.
Dear Jenny and Laura,
I cannot allow this note to go off to your mama without thanking you for the two lovely portraits which you asked Moor to bring me. They have found a temporary home on the chimney-piece in front of the looking-glass, but in a day or two will be given a splendid place of their own on the wall.
I hope Mr Schleiden[’s book] suits you all right; the man’s far more solemn than you are, and I only hope you won’t see fit to imitate him.
I see with pleasure from your portraits that you have both grown a lot and that, although you are now grown-up young girls, your faces are still as frank and artless as of old; and you must believe me still to be your old [in Italian]
Engels