London, 12 December 1868‘ 
Dear Frep, 

You will have seen that the estimate about corron relics on a 
comparison between exports and imports for 1862, 1863, and 
1864. The conclusion regarding the stocks of raw corron +COTTON 
manufactures (1 believe I forgot the latter addition in the letter to 
you“) available in the United Kingdom on 1 January 1862 thus depends 
entirely on the correctness of the premisses. The data are based on 
ae report by Messrs Ellison and Haywood. The bare figures are as 

ollows: 

a J. Watts, The Facts of the Cotton Famine. - © See this volume, pp. 167 and 170. - © In 
the original mistakenly: 1866. - 4 See this volume, p. 179. 

Statistics of Cotton in the United Kingdom 1862, 1863, 1864 

1862 1863 1864 For 3 years 
Import 
thousand of Ibs 
Cotton Imported 533,176 691,847 896,770 
Ditto Exported 216,963 260,934 247,194 
Available to Consump- 
tion 316,213 430,913 649,576 
Waste in Spinning 53,756 64,637 90,940 
Equal to Production in 
Yarn 262,457 366,276 558,636 
Total 1,187,369 
Export 
(thousand of Ibs] 
Yarn 88,554 70,678 71,951> 
Piece goods etc. 324,128 321,561 332,048 
Total 412,682 392,239 403,999¢ —1,208,3204 

The arsenic works excellently. You know that, about 6 weeks ago, I 
felt something carbuncular and then re-started imbibing 
arsenic, and I am still at it. In fact, nothing has appeared 
except constant small preliminaries, which just as constantly 
disappear again. For years the business always began in October, 
and by January was in full bloom. Now it looks as though I shall 
escape it this year, and that only enough traces of the sickness 
reappeared and are reappearing as were necessary to induce me to 
take arsenic. 

In his latest speech in Edinburgh, in which Huxley again took a 
more materialist stand than in recent years, he opened up another 
loophole for himself.?** As long as we really observe and think, we 
can never escape materialism. But all this is reduced to the 
relationship between cause and effect, and ‘your great compatriot 
Hume’ has already proved that these categories have nothing in 

a The table, which Marx gives in English, is from the article ‘A Phase of the Cotton 
Trade during the Civil War’, published in The Economist, No. 1181, 14 April 1866, 
p. 447 (signed: J. E.).- > Marx mistakenly wrote: 171,951. -¢° Marx mistakenly 
wrote: 403,399. - 4 In Marx’s letter and in The Economist mistakenly: 1,208,920. 

common with the things in themselves. Ergo, it is up to you to 
believe what you will. Q.E.D. 

Salut. 
Your 
K. M.