MARX TO NIKOLAI DANIELSON |!” 

London, 13 June 1871 
Dear Sir, 

I shall be happy to see to the ‘first chapter’, but I cannot start 
work on it for another two weeks.’ A period of illness lasting eight 
weeks has piled up work which has to be dealt with first. I shall 
then also send you a list of minor corrections.* 

As to the continuation of my work, the report or our FRIEND” is 
based on a misunderstanding. I have decided that a complete 
revision of the manuscript is necessary.” Moreover, even now a 
number of essential documents are still outstanding, which will 
eventually arrive from the United States.‘ 

*Our friend must return to London from his commercial 
expedition. I have received news from the correspondents of the 
firm for which he travels, from Switzerland and elsewhere. The 
business will be ruined if he defers his return, and he himself will 
be disabled for all time to do any further service to the firm. The 
competitors of the firm are informed, are looking about for him 
and will ensnare him with their intrigues. *?”° 

My best thanks for the various Russian books which you were so 
kind as to send me. All arrived safely. The other economic 
writings of the author would be very welcome to me (the one of 
John Stuart Mill I already have ‘).”?' 

Despite my illness I have just published an Address ABOUT 2 SHEETS 
jong. How to send it To you? 

a See this volume, pp. 239-40. - > Hermann Lopatin - ¢ See this volume, p. 100. - 
dN. G. Chernyshevsky, ‘lononnenia 1 npuMBuania wa neppyio KHUTy NomMTHUEC- - 
KOH 9KOHOMiH J] >xKoHa CTroapta Musa’ (Addenda and Notes to Book One on Political 
Economy by J. St. Mill). - © K. Marx, The Civil War in France. 

Since I very often travel and hence am not aT home, please send all 
letters, etc, to my friend A. Williams,* Esq. (no second 
envelope necessary). He lives in my house, so use the same 
address: 1 Maitland Park Road, Chalk Farm, London, N. W. 

Yours sincerely, 

M.