[London,] 8 August 1877 

Dear Frep, 

Still no news from the Longuets, which is all the more awkward 
in that we are leaving today (this evening).°” 
Herewith the Tableau économique*' together with a few marginal 
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notes. 
It was not possible for me to find Owen’s stuff (or for that 
matter Fourier’s Fausse industrie) in the attic since everything up 

there (it also does duty as Carry’s bedroom, and the ladies have 
arrayed all their trunks there, to be packed with what is 
indispensable for the journey) is in the utmost confusion. 

Ad vocem? Owen. Sargant’s work” would be easily obtainable; of 
greater importance and unobtainable is the little pamphlet on 
PRIVATE MARRIAGES.” The two stout tomes* which Jennychen has got 
were definitely not at her house; I went through everything there; 
perhaps Longuet took them away with him. If the worst comes to 
the worst, all Qwen’s works could probably be obtained from orp 
Allsop. Mzanwnie I have found here at home a very important 
work of Owen’s in which he gives a résumé of his entire doctrine. 
The Revolution in the Mind and Practice of the Human Race, 1849. I 
had forgotten all about it. I shall take this to your house today, 
together with Fourier’s Théorie des quatre mouvemenis and Nouveau 
Monde industriel, and Hubbard’s piece on Saint-Simon.°*”* 

My wife is in a far from satisfactory state of health. I hope 
Madame Lizzy is improving; with any luck she will soon be able to 
begin bathing in the sea which has, after all, always helped her 
hitherto. We all send her our best wishes. 

And now, oLp soy, au revoir. The damned Prussians can’t stop 
bickering and the bogus old N.C.O.' will do his utmost to push 
Francis Joseph into perpetrating some stupidity. All the latter 
needs now is a Hungarian revolution. 

The Constantinople correspondent of the République Frangaise 
writes that an intrigue of Mahmud Damad’s has led to the 
deposition of the old Sheikh-al-Islam **° because of his revolution- 
ary opinions, and his replacement by some other jackass.’ He 
believes that, unless the palace intrigues cease very soon, 
Constantinople is in for a tumultuous time. 

Adio. 

Your 
Moor ”! 

So much for Quesnay’s Tableau! 
Sub I a) avances annuelles des fermiers," paid out by the 
same; replaced by product of 5 milliards, of which 2 milliards (a'Y), 

a As for -> W. L. Sargant, Robert Qwen, and His Social Philosophy. - © Presumably 
R. Owen. The Marriage System of the New Moral World. - 4 Probably [R. Owen,] The 
Life of Robert Owen, Vol. 1 and A Supplementary Appendix to the First Volume of The Life 
of Robert Owen, Vol. 1. A. - © G. Hubbard, Saint-Simon, sa vie et ses travaux. - £ William 
I - § Hassan Cheirullah was replaced by Kara Chalil - » farmers’ annual advances 

the replacement in natura of the said avances annuelles, are spent 
by the Classe Productive (fermiers and their ouvriers*) in the course 
of the following year, ie. the year beginning with the new 
harvest. 

The avances primitives” of 10 milliards do not figure in the 
Tableau, but are presupposed, just as it is further presupposed 
that the farmers have paid 2 milliards in money as rents to REVENUE 
(LANDLORDS, CHURCH AND STATE) before the circulation depicted in the 
Tableau begins. Besides the replacement of the avances annuelles 
of 2 milliards in natura, the gross product provides a further 
3 milliards of which 2 in vivres 1 in matiéres premiéres for 
industry. These 3 milliards under a’, a”, a” are surplus pRopuUcE of 
which, however, only 2/5 counts aS NET PRODUCE, produit net or 
REVENUE because '/3, (IN Fact, the farmers’ profit), forms the interest 
produced in natura for the avances primitives of 10 milliards. 

Sub I] c) avances of the classe stérile of 1 milliard 
consist solely of raw materials (see my previous exposition ™*); 
expended in the course of the year ending with the last harvest. 
Are replaced by industrial goods (c' and c”) to the value of 2 
milliards; of which 1 milliard=value of matiéres premiéres, 
I milliard= value of means of subsistence, which the classe stérile has 
received as salaire’ from the other two classes in return for its 
labour. 

Now for the mouvement depicted in the Tableau: 

1. b—a’. Lanpiorps (incl. church, state) buy vivres for 1 milliard 
from fermiers; thus My the money they paid for RENT OF LAND returns 
to them. 

2. b—c'—a"™. Lanpiorps buy industrial goods for 1 milhard 
from classe stérile, the latter, for that same milliard, means of 
subsistence from classe productive; thus, the second half of the 
money, which it has paid for RENT OF LAND, returns to it. 

3. a—c’. Farmers buy industrial products for 1 milliard from 
classe stérile (details in previous exposition). The line runs from a 
to c” and from c” back to a, so as to indicate that the greater 
portion of this expenditure by the farmers is capitalised, i.e. serves 
to maintain and enrich elements of the avances annuelles and 
primitives. 

4. c—a". Classe stérile buys from classe productive raw materials 
for 1 milliard and thus replaces its avances for the coming year, IN 
FACT, its productive capital. Thus 1 milliard in money flows back to 

a productive class (farmers and their labourers) - > original advances - © means of 
subsistence - ¢ raw materials - © advances of the sterile class - £ wage