ENGELS TO NIKOLAI DANIELSON!” 

London, 19 February 1887 

Dear Sir, 

I was glad to receive your letter of 22/3rd of this month because I 
saw from it that the publisher* instead of sending you a copy of the 
English Capital, had merely forwarded a prospectus. There have been 
several of these irregularities which cause us all sorts of vexation and 
uncertainty as to what has been done. However I have at once forwarded 
to you per post a copy, registered, on February 12th, and hope you 
received it safely. I am glad to say the book sells uncommonly well. The 
high price for the first edition was an unavoidable evil, but as the book 
is stereotyped, a cheap edition at about one-third of the price of the first 
will be brought out after some time; at the present moment the high 
price in no great obstacle bere, though it is so to a certain extent in 
America. 

I think you will be doing a good work in showing to the public of 
your country the application of our author’s theory to their circum- 
stances. But perhaps you had better wait, as you say, until the comple- 
tion of his work. The chapter on the Rent of Land,‘ although written 
before he had studied Russian economic conditions, and written without 
reference thereto, will still be very necessary to you. The 3rd volume will 
be taken in hand after clearing off some other accumulated work; with 
the exception of three Abschnitte, the greater part is almost ready for 
press. 

I thank you very much for the Fairy Tales of Scedrin which I shall 
take in hand as soon as ever possible; a slight conjunctivitis of the left eye 
prevents me reading it at present, as the Russian type very much strains 
my eyesight. 

4 William Swan Sonnenschein — > Volume I of the English edition — ¢ Marx’s - 
4See K. Marx, Capital, Vol. III, Book Three: ‘The Process of Capitalist 
Production as a Whole,’ edited by Frederick Engels, Part VI: “Transformation of 
Surplus Profit into Ground Rent’ (present edition. Vol. 37) 

Up to the present no reviews of the English edition have appeared. 
The professional reviewers evidently do not know what to make of the 
book, and are afraid to burn their fingers. 

Yours sincerely 
P. W. Rosher>?