[Draft] 
London, 29 July 1879 

41 Maitland Park Road, N. W. 
Dear Citizen, 

My sincerest thanks for the two copies of your work **! Some 
time ago I received two similar works, one written in Serbian, the 

other in English (published in the United States),”’ but both of 
them err in that, by seeking to provide a succinct and popular 
résumé of Capital, they also devote themselves in too pedantic a 
manner to the scientific form of the argument. Thus it seems to. 
me that they more or less lose sight of their principal object, which 
is to make an impression on the public for whom these résumés 
are intended. And it is here that your work is vastly superior! 
As to the concept of the thing, I believe I am not mistaken when 
I find an apparent gap in the views set out in your preface, which 
is that there is no proof that the material conditions indispensable 
to the emancipation of the proletariat are engendered in 
spontaneous fashion by the progress of capitalist production.* 
Moreover, I share your opinion—if I have interpreted your 
preface aright—that one ought not to overload the minds of the 
people one is proposing to educate. There is nothing to prevent 
your making, at the right moment, a further attempt aimed at 
placing greater emphasis on this materialist basis of Capital. 

Once again many thanks. : 
Yours very sincerely, 

Karl Marx