London, 2 April 1883 

My dear Lavrov, 

I hasten to acknowledge receipt of your letter enclosing a postal 
order for 124.50 frs. I shall not be able to cash it until Wednesday * at 
the earliest, as tomorrow I have to examine the manuscripts left by 
Marx. ? On completion of the commission I shall announce the fact in 
the Sozialdemokrat of Zurich, and shall ask the editorial department to 
send you one or two copies of that particular number. It goes without 
saying that no mention will be made of Citizen Krantz’s? name. 

I have found the manuscript of the Zirkulation des Kapitals’ and of 
the third book: Die Gestaltungen des Gesammtprozesses*—some 1,000 
in-folio pages. * So far it’s impossible for me to say whether the manu- 
script as it stands is in a fit condition to go to press. In any case I shall 
have to copy it out as it is in rough draft. Tomorrow I shall at last 
have time enough to devote several hours to going through all the 
manuscripts that Moor has left us, in particular an outline of dialect- 
ics which he had always intended to do. But he always refrained 
from telling us how far his work had progressed, for he was aware 
that, once people realised something was ready, he would be pestered 
until he consented to its publication. All this is between you and me; 
I have no right to publish anything without Tussy who is my literary 
co-executrix. 

44 April-> a pen-name for Pyotr Lavrov-° Circulation of Capital-° The Pro- 
cess of Capitalist Production as a Whole 

We were all delighted and surprised to hear that our good, brave — 
to the point of madness— Lopatin had so happily regained his 
freedom. Let us hope that, while retaining his bravery, he has left 
his madness behind him in Russia. I hope to see him here one of these 
days. Please give him my warm regards. 

Yours ever, 

F. Engels