London, 12 January 1860 

My dear Sir, 

Thanks for the point you have in my affair.'* This letter has 
been delayed, because I had entered into negotiations, on behalf 
of your publication, with a publisher who, having put me off from 
day to day, withdrew at last.'* 

Bentley is not your man. Try once with John Murray. In writing 
to those fellows, never forget to sign as ancient Minister. This is 
something with those flunkeys. 

Yours truly 
A. WAS 

a Report of Leonard Horner, Esq., Inspector of Factories, for the Half Year ended the 31st 
October 1859, dated 14 November 1859, in Reports of the Inspectors of Factories to Her 
Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the Half Year Ending 3 Ist 
October 1859, London, 1860. - » the British Museum Library - © A. Williams, an alias 
used by Marx in some of his letters. 

Would you be so kind to inform me, in your next letter, of the 
real state of things in Hungary?