London, 12 August 1883 
122 Regent’s Park Road, N. W. 

Dear Citizen Deville, 

I have received your letter and your manuscript, for which I thank 
you.! Next week I shall be leaving London for a seaside resort.? 
There I shall have sufficient leisure to look over your work which will 
be returned to you as soon as possible. 

Your manuscript arrived at an opportune moment. Only yesterday 
I completed the final editing of the 3rd German edition of Capi- 
tal,, and have undertaken to begin editing the 2nd volume imme- 
diately on my return from the seaside. So your work reached me pre- 
cisely at the moment when I happened to have a short interval 
of time. 

* See this volume, pp. 13-14 and 91.-? Ibid., p. 11.-* the first volume 

I have read the section you sent to Marx a little while ago; it seems 
to me very clear and very accurate. And, since it comprises the most 
difficult part of the work, there would appear to be no reason to anti- 
cipate any misapprehensions in the remaining sections. 

Yours ever, 

F. Engels