London, 9 May 1895 
41 Regent’s Park Road, N. W. 

Dear Mr Mehring, 

Very many thanks for your long and informative letter plus enclosures, 
which I shall reply to at length as soon as my cranium permits. Unfortunately 
for the past week a rheumatic condition of the scalp has been encircling and 
compressing it as though with a band of iron. I hope to have got over it by 
next week along with the attendant insomnia. Meanwhile I agree to your 
proposal that the only articles from the Rheinische Zeitung that should be 
published in their entirety are the two long ones and those on Communism* 
(as also the article from the Anekdota’). It would only be necessary to copy 
from the remainder such passages as you might be so good as to indicate as 
being the most pregnant (along with particulars of the context). As regards 
the Mosel articles, °“* it would be desirable if my introduction included a 
brief outline both of the course of the debate and of the contents. 

Would you be kind enough to acquaint Fischer with the foregoing? Once again my 
best thanks and until my next, which has to do with one minor detail, 

I remain 

Yours sincerely 

F. Engels 

*“K. Marx, Proceedings of the Sixth Rhine Province Assembly. First Article. Debates on 
Freedom of the Press and Publication of the Proceedings of the Assembly of the Estates; 
Proceedings of the Sixth Rhine Province Assembly. Third Article. Debates on the Law on Thefts 
of Wood and Communismus and the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung’. —° K. Marx, Comments on 
the Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction.