London, 4 April 1876 

41 Maitland Park Road, N. W. 

(Pay ATTENTION TO THE ADDRESS; IT IS 41 Now 
INSTEAD OF 1, BUT SAME STREET) 

My dear Friend, 

It gave me great pleasure to see your handwriting again at last. 
My interpretation of your silence was correct, that is to say it 
tallied with your own explanation. I assure that we over here have 
also experienced more than enough mudslinging, though it was 
not done in so brazenly public a manner (and even that wasn’t 
lacking in the early days after the Hague Congress”). But here 
one might say with Chernyshevsky: ‘He who treads the path of 
history must not be afraid of getting besmirched’. 

I sent you the last fifteen livraisons du Capital” at the beginning 
of January, namely on Monday 3 January (I made a note of every 
copy I sent off at that time, which is why I know the date). 
However, I’m not surprised that you haven’t had them, for no less 
than three copies consigned to Paris from here did not arrive, and 
fresh ones had to be sent off. At the beginning of January there is 
such a HurLy-sur_y in the post office over here that to send anything 
by post is irresponsible. I shall send you a further fifteen numbers 
this week. I only regret that you didn’t get consignment No. 1, since 
it is precisely this part, in particular the section on the accumulation 
process, that I have substantially revised and hence would like you to 
have read. 

Engels and I cannot come to Philadelphia '*’ because we have 
too much work on our hands—I, especially, have even less time to 
spare inasmuch as my STATE OF HEALTH still compels me to lose asout 2 
MONTHS taking the cure at Karlsbad. 

a instalments of - © the French edition of the first volume of Capital 

We intend to apply ourselves to the Communist Manifesto; but 
the time is not yet ripe for a decision on the appendix.'* 

And now I have various requests to make of you: 

1. Might I have my “Tribune” articles (ex, I think, Weydemeyer’s 
effects) which had been kept by our friend Meyer” before his 
untimely death. I have got none of them. 

2. Could the American book catalogues from 1873 up till the 
present be sent to me from New York (needless to say at my own 
expense)? The point is I want to see for myself (for the second 
volume of Capital) what has appeared that might, perhaps, be of 
use as regards American agriculture and relations of landowner- 
ship, ditto as regards credit (panic, money, etc., and anything 
connected therewith). 

3. There is absolutely nothing to be gleaned from the English 
newspapers about the present scandalous goings-on in the United 
States.'*”? Have you by chance kept any American papers that refer to 
them? 

With warmest regards from all the family. 

Totus tuus, 

Karl Marx