Friday last the Social Democratic Federation had a benefit. Tussy and Edward played in a piece I did not go, as I do not as yet see my way to sitting three hours consecutively in a stiff chair. Nim says they played very well the piece was more or less, she says, their own history. Mother Wright read very well Bax played the piano rather long Morris who was here the other night and quite delighted to find the Old Norse Edda on my table he is an Icelandic enthusiast Morris read a piece of his poetry (a refonte of the eddaic Helreid Brynhildar (the description of Brynhild burning herself with Sigurd s corpse), etc., etc., it went off very well their art seems to be rather better than their literature and their poetry better than their prose.
Letters: Marx-Engels Correspondence 1884