MARX TO PYOTR LAVROV65
IN LONDON
[London,] 11 February 1875
My dear Friend,
I am sending you today the German edition3 in one volume (I
no longer have any available Hefteb), and the first six fascicles of
the French edition.17 The latter contains many changes and
additions (see e.g. fascicle 6, p. 222 attacking John Stuart Mill—a
striking example of how bourgeois economists, even with the best
of intentions, instinctively go off the rails at the very moment
when they seem about to light on the truthc). The most important
changes contained in the French edition, however, are to be found
in those parts not yet published, namely the chapters on
accumulation.
Many thanks for the publications you sent me. What particularly
interested me were the articles ‘Что делается на родине?’.66 If I
had the time I would make excerpts for the Volksstaat. The ‘He
наши’6 are first-rate people. I rather suspect that our friend
Lopatin had a hand in the said article.67
A large parcel of books and official publications was despatched
to me from St Petersburg but was stolen, probably by the Russian
government. Amongst other things it contained the reports,
Комиссия no сельскому хозяйству и сельской производительности въ
Pocciu and По податному вопросу,с things that were absolutely
essential to the chapter in the second volume in which I deal with
landownership, etc., in Russia.68
My health has greatly improved since my stay at Karlsbad43but,
for one thing, I am still compelled to greatly restrict my hours of
work and, for another, I was no sooner back in London than I
caught a
cold which has not ceased to plague me ever since.
I shall come and see you when the weather turns finer.
Yours ever,
Karl Marx

MECW footnotes:
a the second German edition of the first volume of Capital - b instalments - c See
Capital, Vol. I, Part V, Ch. XVI (presentedition, Vol. 35). - d Not Ours - e Докладь
высочайше учрежденной коммисст для изслъдовангя нынЬшняго положения сельского
хозяйства и сельской производительности въ Pocciu; Труды коммисст, высочайше
учрежденной
для
пересмотра
системы
податей
и сборовъ, Vol. XXII: ‘Сводъ
отзывовъ губернскихъ земскихъ собранш, земскихъ управъ иособыхъземскихъ
коммиссш, по проекту преобразованы подушной системы сборовъ, составлен­
ному въ министерств^ финансовъ’, Parts I-IIL