ENGELS TO HERMANN SCHLII TER*” 

No. 1 
[London], 2 December 1893 

Dear Schliiter, 

Many thanks for your good wishes and for Census Compendium I which 
was most welcome and of which No. II will be more welcome still.* So the 
Americans are no longer as liberal as they used to be, and even a big journal 
does not get such things merely for the asking! All is well over here; I am 
once more at work on Vol. II I° and it is with pleasure that I look back on the 
trip I made this summer. '*’ You people are now at last about to rid 
yourselves of bimetallism ~” and the McKinley tariff and this should give a 
considerable boost to progress over there. Although a thorough-going 
collapse of silver '*’ might have gone a long way towards 

“ Department of the Interior, Census Office. Compendium of the Eleventh Census: 1890, Parts I-II 
, Washington, 1892-1894. -” of Capital 

enlightening your remarkably stupid American farmer in regard to his cheap 
money. Regards from Mrs Kautsky. 

Yours, 
F.E. 
Census book—see second postcard.