VERNOUILLET **° 

London, 9 February 1872 
1 Maitland Park Road, 
Haverstock Hill 

Dear Sirs, 

Please be so good as to make two copies of the enclosed contract 
on stamped paper, one to be signed by Mr Maurice Lachatre, and 
then send both copies to me, one of which I shall return duly 
signed. 

In a letter dated 2 February my translator tells me: 

‘I shall start work this very day and proceed more quickly or less quickly, depending 
upon the time allowed me by the publisher. At all events I shall be entirely at his 
disposal.’ 

You would oblige me by enabling me to advise Mr Roy of ‘the 
time allowed’. 

I have the honour to be, Sirs, 
Your obedient servant, 

Karl Marx