I take the liberty of sending you a small contribution for the 
Deutsche Jahrbücher in the form of the enclosed criticism of the 
censorship instruction? 

If the article is suitable for your journal, I ask you for the time 
being not to mention my name to anyone except Wigand, and also to 
send me by post immediately the issues of the Deutsche Jahrbücher 
containing my article; because for the time being here in Trier I am 
completely excluded from the literary world. 

It is obvious that it is in the interest of the cause that the 
printing should be expedited, if the censorship does not censor my 
censure. 

If you do not know of a critic for Vatke’s super-clever book on 
sin >— were it not so devilishly clever, one would be tempted to call 
it stupid — my critical zeal is at your disposal. 

It would perhaps be equally worth while to deal again with 
Bayer’s work on the moral spirit.. Feuerbach’s criticism was a 
friendly service.’ Honourable as is Bayer’s moral frame of mind, 
his work itself is just as weak and even. immoral. 

I should be very glad if you would let Wigand know that my 
manuscript will reach you in a few days’ time. Bauer's“ letter in 

which he demands that it should be sent off at last, came when I 
was very ill in bed and therefore was handed to me only a few 
days ago. Being busy on the enclosed article, I was not able to 
make the necessary corrections. | 

As I have now come to the end of some voluminous works, it 
goes without saying that all my forces are at the disposal of the 
Deutsche Jahrbücher. 

With sincere respect, 
Marx 

My address is: Dr. Marx, Trier; to be delivered to Geheimer 
Regierungsrat von Westphalen.