[Draft] 
[London, between 26 and 28 January 1884] 

Enclosed I beg to hand you post office order 10[sh.] 10 for my 
year’s subscription to Justice. 

I am so overcharged with work, not only for the immediate future, 
but for a considerable period of time to come, that it would be folly on 
my part to promise contributions to your paper. I have been disabled 
from active work for the last six months and am only now slowly re- 
gaining the strength necessary to accomplish my most urgent task — 
to prepare for the press the manuscripts left by my late friend Marx. 
So that I am bound to devote all my time. I did promise an article to 
To-Day but that was in better days and I am afraid they too will have 
to wait.