London, 3 September 1871 

Dear Mr Sidorov,* 

Thank you for your good offices in the matter of the Gazette des 
Tribuneaux, which reaches me regularly, and also for the maps’?; 
having consulted Rozwadowski, I think that I shall indeed have to 
write to a German bookseller. Rozwadowski, incidentally, has 
secured a post as schoolmaster in a boarding-school, unpaid, but 
with laundry, board and lodging up till December—he cannot fail 
to learn English there, after which it will be easy to find him 
something else. 

As to the books, it now transpires that they have not yet reached 
the second-hand bookshops and must be paid for at publication 
prices with discounts ranging from 16 to 20 per cent. Let me 
know by return whether you authorise me to buy them on these 
terms, in which case you will receive them in a few days’ time; they 
are as follows: 

Lecky, Rationalism‘ 

Tylor, Primitive Culture 

Lubbock, Origin of Civilisation 

Maine, Ancient Law 

Ditto, Rural Communities, 
and, if it is to be had for 10/- or less, 

Buckle, History of Civilization. 

Someone has just interrupted me, and so I am obliged to close 
this letter. 

Yours ever, 
F. Engels 

a Lavrov’s pseudonym used by Engels in their correspondence. - > See this volume, 
p. 193.-° W. E. H. Lecky, History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism 
in Europe.- 9 J. Lubbock, The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of 
Man. -¢ H.S. Maine, Village-communities in the East and West. 

130. Marx to Collet. 6 September 187] 211 

Williams’ two daughters* have arrived here, the third is in Spain 

with her husband.°*”?