MARX TO ISAAC IRONSIDE” 

[Draft] 

Manchester, [21 June 1856] 

34 Butler St., Greenheys 
Dear Sir, 

I received your letter d.d. June 14 this morning only, as it had 
to be sent to me here to Manchester where I shall stay for some 
weeks. 

I have duly considered your proposal, and, on the whole, accede 
to it.”* In a matter like this, it is impossible to mention expressly 
every small particular, to agree upon the size of type pp., neither 
can I anticipate that any difficulties may arise therefrom, nor from 
the reservations to make as to ‘copy used’. 

I shall therefore provide you in time for next Saturday’s but 
one’s publication with fully 2 columns of matter and keep you 
amply supplied every week to that extent. 

It would be most convenient to me (if your arrangements admit 
of it) to receive a remittance say after every fresh weekly 
publication. 

As to your reprinting the papers in your serials, I have no 
objection, reserving to myself, of course, the right of using the 
materials, later on, in any way I may see it fit to use them. 

As I am sure that you will not suppress historical truth out of 
prejudice or party-consideration [...]* 

As to the latter point you will think it only just, that should any 
points be suppressed, which in my conviction are of decisive 

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historical importance, I shall consider myself obliged to stop the 
publication. 

In thanking you for the serials you were so kind to send me, I 
cannot but regret that you did not think fit to communicate to me 
the proof-sheets of the ‘Story of the life of Lord Palmerston’.” 
Sentences, historical data, quotations from Palmerston’s 
speeches—everything is so disfigured by errata that, in my 
opinion, the pamphlet, in its present form, is not only useless but 
positively mischievous. 

A few words on the plan of the whole publication * will suffice. I 
do not adopt the usual manner of opening the whole theme by 
general considerations, but on the contrary commence with facts. 

In contradistinction to the usual manner of historical writers, I 
shall not commence this publication with general considerations, 
but with facts. The first chapter will be composed of despatches 
belonging to different epochs of that century, in order to show up 
the Russian spirit of English diplomacy during the 18th.‘ 

I hope I need not tell you that I am no ‘commercial’ writer and 
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