the various countries should be evaluated, and to what extent they 
are or are not useful, can best be learnt from an actual study and 
comparison of them. And in just the same way, one’s individual stu- 
dies, the more advanced they become, provide the best guidance as to 
the ways and means of learning more, always supposing one has 
started off with genuinely classical texts and not with the most worth- 
less of all——_ German economic text-books and/or the lectures of their 
authors. 

That is about all I can say on the subject. And I shall be delighted 
if Miss Kjellberg finds anything here that can be of use to her. 

I look forward, by the way, to the general elections !°* and remain 

Very sincerely yours, 
F. Engels 

Friedrich Engels. Eine Biographie, Bd. II, ; , P 
ee 1934 and in full in: Marx and eee ia Eaig lisa) don sthe rat 

Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, 
Vol. 36, Moscow, 1964 

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ENGELS TO MARYA JANKOWSKA (S. LEONOWICZ) 78+ 

[Draft] 
[Worthing, mid-August 1884] 

Yes. The only condition I must impose on you— and this categorical- 
ly—is that you should publish nothing in Polish before the German 
edition has been completed. The work would be instantly banned in 
Germany and the least indiscretion or premature allusion could only 
result in alerting the German police and in hampering the circulation 
of the original, if not in causing a large part of the edition to be confis- 
cated. Perhaps you would be so kind, then, as to acknowledge receipt 

of this letter and to give me your assurance that you will abide by 
a condition which, unfortunately, cannot be dispensed with.