Manchester, 22 February 1865 

Dear Sir, 

Your kind letter of 17th inst. has only just been delivered to me, 
since postal communication via Ostende has been interrupted for 
three full days, and I am greatly obliged to you for your prompt 
agreement to publish, and more especially for your rapid 
prosecution of the printing.* 

I accept your fee of 2 louis-d’or per sheet of print and likewise 
leave it to you to decide the number of copies to be printed, under 
the condition, however, that you inform me of it in your next 
letter; it goes without saying [that I] am only making [over the first 
impression]” for this fee. 

Announcements in the nfewspapers shall be] attended to 
forthwith. 

The apparent delay in [despatch] here, to which you justifiably 
allude, arose from the following: I finished on Saturday evening, 
11 February, and wrote the accompanying letter late that night; 
the letter was taken to the post on Monday 13th at 10.00 a.m. and 
went by the mail-boat from Dover that Monday evening—no later 
than it would have done if I had posted it on Saturday evening. 
The pious English do not allow mail-steamers to leave on Sunday 
evening, at least not to Ostende. 

Yours respectfully 
Fr. Engels 

I hope to receive 12 copies by post here on 27th or 28th inst.