[London,] 23 May 1857 

Dear Engels, 

The enclosed arrived from Dana this morning. It puzzles me 
how the Yankee can expect the stuff for Vol. I' to be in New 
York by the beginning of July if he doesn’t let us know what he 
wants until the end of May. 

a F. Engels, ‘Persia—China’. - > Stalker and Etheridge - ¢ Johannes Miquel 

You might reconsider which articles one should offer to do, 
apart from the military. Philosophical stuff is, in fact, too badly 
paid and also difficult when it has to be done in English. Do you 
know if there happens to be any German or French book on the 
biographies of big industrialists? 

I’m equally puzzled as to how aesthetics is to be dealt with in 
1 PAGE, FUNDAMENTALLY, and on a Hegelian basis. 

Does Lupus feel inclined to take something on? 

Enclosed also a letter from Miquel. I do not, in fact, understand 
his theory of ‘non-overproduction’ and yet of ‘lack of the 
wherewith to pay for production’, unless it be that the utterly 
superficial blather of the utterly wretched currency chaps '*? has 
taken root in Germany. 

Salut 
Your 
K. M.