MARX TO LUDWIG KUGELMANN’”? 

London, 15 July 1869 

Dear Kugelmann, 

Your letter of 2 June arrived here while I was in Manchester.” 
They forgot to send it on to me, and later completely forgot about 
its existence. I have only just put my hands on it, after my 
attention was drawn to it by your letter of 6 July. The latter letter 
I also received yesterday since, owing to the indisposition of my 
Laura, I had been for a week incognito in Paris‘ where, sy THE BY, a 
growing movement is manifest. Otherwise, I should have hastened 
to write to you in your time of suffering. 

4 to burn the civil code and the penal code - ‘hellish orgies of bludgeoning’ - 
© hypocritical. young men -4 Charles Etienne Lafargue -¢ Here the MS is 
damaged. - f See the previous letter. 

As for the 18th Brumaire, Meissner’s assurances are sheer 
prevarications.**’ He has had the stuff since the end of January. 
Naturally, he did not get the preface because he didn’t send the 
last 2 proof sheets. I finally received the latter on 23 June, and 
sent them back, corrected, the same day, together with the 
preface. Thus, once again, more than three weeks lost, so we shall 
be launched right into the off season in the book trade! 

I shan’t be coming to Germany before September.*? I am 
making the journey mainly because of my daughter.* But, in any 
case, I would come to see you in Helgoland (I am travelling via 
Hanover). 

Regarding Engels’ biography,” be so kind as to return it to me. 
He must revise it, since it is now intended for a different 
audience. 

With hearty greetings to your dear wife and Franzchen,‘ 

Yours