[London,] 23 May 1872 

Dear Sorge, 

Just a few lines in great haste. 

I am overwhelmed with work. 

Quite apart from all the International susiness—everything is at 
sixes and sevens—every day I have to correct the German proofs of 
the second edition of Capital (which will appear in instalments) '*° 
and the épreuves* of the French translation in Paris, which I 
often have to re-write completely to make matters clear to the 
French. And in addition I also have the épreuves of the Apprzss on THE 
Crvit. War,” which we are bringing out in French in Brussels. You will 
be receiving a constant flow of instalments in German and French 
from me. 

In Petersburg a splendid Russian translation’ has appeared.*© 
The Russian socialist paper, Die Neue Zeit (its German title, the 
paper comes out in Russian), recently published a five-column- 
long leader lavishing praise on the book, which, however, was only 
meant as an introduction to a series of articles.* For this, the paper 
duly received a warning from the police, who threatened to 
suppress it. 

I shall send Liebknecht my answer to the jackasses from the 
Concordia today.* I was unable to get round to it sooner. Moreover, it 
does no harm to leave that factory-owning mob their illusions of 
victory for a while. 

a proofs -> K. Marx, The Civil War in France.-° of Volume I of Capital - 
d ‘C.-Ilerep6yprs, 22 anpbas’, Novoye Vremya, No. 106, 23 April (5 May) 
1872. - © K. Marx, ‘Reply to Brentano’s Article’.