My dear Mr Sidoroff,

I thank you for your kind offices regarding the *Gazette des Tribunaux*, which reaches me regularly, as well as for the cards, after having consulted Rozwadowski I indeed think that I shall have to apply to a German bookseller. Rozwadowski, by the by, has a post as schoolmaster in a boarding school, without salary, but with board, washing and lodging, until December – he will surely learn English there and then something else will easily be found for him.

As for the books, it is now established that they are not yet in the hands of the second-hand booksellers and that they will have to be paid for at the publication price, less a discount of 16 to 20%. Please let me know by return whether you authorise me to buy them on these terms, and you shall have them in a few days; that would be, therefore:

Lecky, *Rationalism*
Tylor, *primitive Culture*
Lubbock, *Origin of Civilization*
Maine, *Ancient Law*
Ditto *Rural Communities*
| and, if it is possible to get it for 10 sh. at least, Buckle, *History of Civilization*.

I am interrupted at this moment, so I am obliged to close the letter.

Yours truly,
F. Engels

The two daughters of Williams have arrived here, the third together with her husband is in Spain.