London, 19 August 1852 
28 Dean Street, Scho 
Dear Sir, 

I am writing to you to ask whether you could use in your 
Gegenwart a paper on ‘Recent Literature on the Economy in 
England, from 1830-1852’. So far as I am aware, no work of this 
kind has yet been published either in English or in German. It 
would cover 1. general works on political economy, 2. specialised 
writings which appeared during that period, in so far as they 
relate to really important controversies, for instance on popula- 
tion, the colonies, the banking question, protective tariffs and free 
trade, etc. 

Should you feel inclined to fall in with this proposal, I should 
have to know the length prescribed for such a paper by the 
economics of your publication, since the subdivision of the whole 
would have to be arranged accordingly. 

Another paper which might perhaps be pertinent just now is 
‘The Present State of the Parties’, i.e. those that will confront each 
other in the next Parliament. Awaiting your reply, I am 

Yours faithfully 

Dr K. Marx