{London,] 28 February 1872 

My dear child, 

You may judge of the overwork—I am being bothered with 
ever since December last—from my negligence in replying to your 
own and Paul’s letters. Still my heart was always with you. In fact, 
the health of poor little Schnappy* occupies my thoughts more 
than everything. else, and I feel even a little angry at Paul’s last 
epistle, full of interesting details as to the ‘movement’, but a mere 
blank in regard to that dear little sufferer.“ 

In consequence of uninterrupted reading and writing, an 
inflammation of my right eye has set in since a few days, so that it 
forsakes service for the moment and obliges me to limit even this 
letter to the most necessary matter-of-fact communications. 

In the first instance, Keller is not the translator of my book.? #4” 
When, at last, I had found out his whereabouts, I wrote at once.!” 
In his reply, he told me that he had till then only translated about 
200 pages, and that, moreover, he could not proceed with the 
work before the month of May, being bound by contract to finish 
the translation of a medical work. This would not do for me. I 
have found in Roy, the translator of Feuerbach, a man perfectly 
suitable to my purpose. Since the end of December, he has 
received from me the corrected manuscript of the Second German 
edition” up to pagina 280. To-day I have written him to send at 
once to Paris what manuscript may be ready.’ 

As to the biography, I have not yet made up my mind as to 
whether it be at all opportune to publish it in connection with this 
work. 

As to the preface for Proudhon, j’y penserai.© 

The printings Paul wants I shall send to-morrow*”’ and should 
have done so before, if I had found the time to look after some 
statistical facts in ‘the 18. Brumaire’ which, I apprehend, are not 
quite correct. 

To Liebknecht I shall write.** 

a Charles Etienne Lafargue - > Volume I of Capital - © I shall think of it. 

As to Lara, making him—a man who is a perfect stranger to 
our party—a contributor to our party prints, is quite out of the 
question.**° At the same time, you ought not to neglect all relations 
with his family. Under certain circumstances they might prove 
useful. 

I regret that you have written to Woodhull et C°. They are 
humbugs that compromise us. Let Paul write to Charles A. Dana, 
editor of The Sun (New York) and offer him Spanish correspon- 
dence, and ask him at the same time (such things must be settled 
beforehand with the Yankees) as to the money terms. I enclose a 
few lines to Dana.”” If he should not accept, I shall find another 
paper at New York. (The Herald or something else). 

The New Social Demokrat is the continuation of Schweitzer’s 
paper* under another editorship. He observed still a certain 
decorum. It is now a mere police paper, Bismarck’s paper for the 
Lassalleans, as he has his feudal, his liberal, his all sort of colour 
papers. 

Apropos. Misled by one of your letters I had put in the contract 
with Lachatre **° ‘somme de ... sera remise & Paris ... quinze jours aprés 
demande’.’ 1 shall write him to-morrow, that I prefer the payment 
on lst July. In case of need, 1 can find the money, but I must be 
informed beforehand. 

And now, my dear child, adie, with thousand kisses for little 
Schnappy and yourself, and my greetings to Paul. 

Yours most devotedly 
Old Nick‘ 

The ‘Circular’ against the dissentients* you will receive as soon 
as printed.