London, | January 1895 
41 Regent’s Park Road, N. W. 

Dear Kugelmann, 

I am most grateful to you, your wife and your daughter for your kind good 
wishes which I sincerely reciprocate. But now we had better get down to 
business straight away, as I am overwhelmed with correspondence, etc. *”* 

If I understood you aright, the collection in America was mainly to do 
with Marx’s articles in the Tribune. I have two collections of these over here, 
of which one at any rate is incomplete and probably both, since the Tribune 
also published Marx’s articles as unsigned leaders. A third collection could 
therefore only be of use to me for the purpose of completing the set and that 
was why I suggested at the time that it should be temporarily housed in the 
archives where I could always have access to it when necessary. 

But you now speak of earlier things, i.e. stuff from the period up till 1851, 
and that, of course, is quite a different matter and not what I had understood 
you to say in Berlin. ** These things are in fact of the utmost value and it is 
only the lack of them that has prevented me from bringing out a complete 
edition of these lesser works as well as of the articles by Marx and myself 
that appeared between 1842 and 1852. It has long been my wish to publish 
these things, once I am in some sort of a position to do so and if, therefore, 
you can place as many of them as possible at my disposal, you will be 
making your own contribution towards that end. In which case I shall resume 
my search for a copy of the Rheinische Zeitung of 1842, chiefly with regard 
to Marx’s articles. 

Please tell me again where the collection originated and, if you cannot at 
once get hold of the things themselves, kindly procure for me, if possible, a 
list of the books, periodicals, etc., contained therein, but excluding the 
Tribune articles. *° 

Since the beginning of last year Mrs Kautsky has not been Mrs Kautsky 

but Mrs Freyberger. Her husband is an extremely able young Viennese 
doctor, formerly Nothnagel’s assistant, who fell out with the faculty over 
there because he gave lectures on practical anatomy to working men and 
explained to them the social causes of their ailments. He is now addressing 
himself to the higher realms of applied medicine in this country and will, I do 
not doubt, soon make a success of it, for he is far more knowledgeable than 
most Englishmen. In order that my domestic arrangements should not be 
revolutionised more than necessary, we have taken a larger house in the same 
road where all three’ or rather four, of us (there having been the addition of a 
little girl seven weeks ago) live together. 

So once again a Happy New Year and kindest regards to you all from 
Louise and myself. 

Yours, 
F. Engels 

As regards the misprint, which is itself a misprint, I shall look into the 

matter. “°°