London, 20 October 1876 
122 Regent’s Park Road, N. W. 

Dear Kugelmann, 

You may give Mr Caro the most positive assurances that, aside 
from announcements of family events in the more distant past and 
personal statements signed with his name on the Vogt affair, etc., 
Marx has never written one line for the Augsburg Allgemeine 
Zeitung,” and, if the gentlemen in Breslau* know better, we can 
only treat it as a joke. We don’t even know Mr Caro by name, 
though his friendship with Gorchakov leads us to suppose that he 
knows relatively little of Russia, for Gorchakov would not be on 
such a footing with people who were too well versed in this subject. So 
let us hope that the order which is still lacking will shortly pop into 
the buttonhole that is pining for it. 

Just now I’m writing a work on Mr Dihring for the Vorwdrts in 
Leipzig.‘ For this purpose I need the review of Capital which 
you sent to Marx in March 1868 and which, if I’m not mistaken, 
was published by Dihring in a periodical appearing in Hildburg- 
hausen.”” Marx simply can’t find it. Knowing how conscientious 
you are in all matters, I presume you have something about it 
among your notes from that time—the name, perhaps, of the 
periodical and the No. of the volume in which the thing appeared. 
If you could let me know this, I would order the volume and have 
it here within a few days. But if you can’t, you should, under no 
circumstances, write to Dühring about it, for the slightest—even if 
indirect—contact with the man and, still more, the very slightest 
service rendered by him would impair my freedom of criticism in 
a matter in which I should preserve it to the utmost. 

Work on the second volume ” will be started again in a few days. If, 
by the way, one wishes to correct all the inanities about Marx that 
circulate in learned circles, one would have one’s work cut out. 
Yesterday, for example, a Russian told us about a Russian professor 
who stubbornly maintained that Marx was now engaged solely in 
Russian studies and was doing so because firmly convinced que la 
commune russe ferait le tour du monde! 

2 Polish name: Wroclaw. - > of Capital - © that the Russian commune would make its 
way round the world 

The war in the Orient will doubtless really get going soon.”” 
Never before have the Russians been able to strike under such 
favourable diplomatic circumstances as now. Militarily speaking, 
on the other hand, circumstances are Jess favourable to Russia 
than in 1828, and financially very unfavourable, since no one will 
lend her anything. Just now I’m re-reading Moltke’s history of the 
war of 1828-29*; a very good book although the man could not be 
frank about political matters. 

Thank you for the Schaffle article. 

Your 
F. Engels