[Draft] 
{London,] 21 October 1878 

In reply to your esteemed letter of the 18th, I shall gladly take 
temporary charge of the documents concerned.*” Having no 
fire-proof safe, however, I cannot, of course, accept responsibility 
in the matter of fire or theft, and should be obliged if you would | 
expressly acknowledge this fact in your accompanying letter. Other 

4 ‘stock-exchange speculation during the Griinderjahre’ (a play on the title of Glagau’s 
work Der Bérsen- und Griindungs-Schwindel in Deutschland). - b F. Engels, Anti- 
Dithring. 

aspects can be dealt with in our subsequent correspondence. I 
shall preserve the papers concerned as carefully as those of a 
similar nature belonging to myself. 

Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVII, : ; . ; 
Moscow 16350 sia Published in English for the first 
time 
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London, 4 November 1878 

Dear Friend, 

You would greatly oblige me by seeing if you could safely 
convey the enclosed letter to Mrs Liebknecht’s address, 11 
Braustrasse, Leipzig. It concerns the ‘stomach problem’ for Lieb- 
knecht’s family, but I don’t trust the German post.**! 

Yours very sincerely, 

Karl Marx