London, 3 October 1883 

My dear Laura, 

Herewith cheque for £ 14.- of which £4.- are your '/, share of 
£ 12.- sent by Meissner on account of 2nd edition [of] Kapital, 

@ the third German edition of Volume I of Capital-* ‘a little Paris’-° In the ori- 
ginal mistakenly: ‘from’.-* The general, in a manner of speaking.-° the second 
German edition of Volume I of Capital 

£4.- for Tussy and £4.- for Longuets children, which Tussy has 
banked for the present until a little more money accrues to them, 
when we can consider, along with you, what is to be done in their 
interest. 

Jollymeier left here yesterday, highly enchanted with Paris. He 
says you will come over at Christmas— hope it will turn out true! 

Today I sent to you, registered, pages 1-123 of Deville’s ms.! 
I cannot find his letter with his address. The defect of the thing is that 
many parts of it have been done rather too hurriedly. This is princi- 
pally the case with the descriptive portions (especially manufacture and 
grande industrie*). The points do not at all come out as they ought to 
do. It is not sufficient to express them, as much as possible, in Marx’s 
own words; these cannot be torn from the context without giving rise 
to misinterpretation or leaving many things in comparative obscu- 
rity. Deville would do well to revise these two chapters throughout 
and to complete them by some of the exemplifications of the original 
without which they have become very abstract and to working- 
men-readers obscure. In the theoretical parts there are also many 
slight inaccuracies (some too, as his definition of marchandise,” very 
serious) and des choses faites @ la héte,° but these it was mostly not very 
difficult to set more or less right. Then many portions, of interest and 
importance for theoretical economic science, but without immediate 
portée* on the question between capital and labour, might be omitted. 
One or two I have indicated. 

Now then I close. Though a good deal better 1 am ordered to lie 
down as much as possible quietly for a few days longer and so with 
kind regards to the prisoners * and sincere love from Nim and myself 
remain 

Ever yours affectionately, 
F. Engels