London, 24 September 1879 
Dear Old Man, 

Your postcard received. I have taken out a money order for 
£112s. which should come to 40.20 francs, so that you won’t be in 
a hole if the cost of the power of attorney” amounts to a bit more. 
Marx is back,**° apparently in the very best of health, so no doubt 
work on the 2nd volume of Capital can now go briskly ahead. 

As regards the progress of negotiations with our people in the 
land of the philistines, I shall let you have further news in due 

In haste. Your old friend, 
F. E.