London, 3 November 1877 
41 Maitland Park Road, N. W. 

Dear Sir, 

My best thanks for the packages. 

Your offer to arrange for other material to be sent to me from 
France, Italy, Switzerland, etc. is exceedingly welcome, although I 
feel reluctant to make undue claims on you. I don’t at all mind 
waiting, by the by, nor will this in any way hold up my work, for I 
am applying myself to various parts of the book in turn. In fact, 
privatim, I began by writing Capital in a sequence (starting with the
3rd, historical section) quite the reverse of that in which it
was presented to the public, saving only that the first volume—the 
last I tackled—was got ready for the press straight away, whereas 
the two others remained in the rough form which all research 
originally assumes. 

I enclose a photograph herewith, because the copy of the 
French edition that goes off to you at the same time as this letter
only contains a very far from flattering likeness done from a 
London photograph by a Parisian artist. 

Your most obedient Servant, 

Karl Marx