IN BORSDORF NEAR LEIPZIG *+ 

London, 23 January 1884 

Dear Bebel, 

I forgot to say in Saturday’s letter? that you and Liebknecht 
should on no account order copies of the third edition of Capital‘ 
since we shall be sending one for each of you as soon as we get any. 
A third will go to the party archives in Zurich.'** 

Tussy will have written to you regarding a translation of Die 
Frau.1*° It’s unlikely that you’ll get any royalties from it, though 
there’s no harm in trying—-at most 3 pence = 0.25 mark per copy 
sold; that is the usual form here. The actual book could, I believe, 
only fetch, say, 2 4 2.50 marks here, of which 30% at least would go to 
the retail booksellers. Moreover, the kind of publishers who deal in 
such books are very few and far between and also pauvres.* We our- 
selves shall have to invest something like £200 in cash in the English 
edition of Capital, and may also have to advance the translator’s fee, 

@ See this volume, pp. 102-03.-> See previous letter.-° the third German edition 
of Volume I of Capital-? poor 

and then work on a fifty-fifty basis; it probably couldn’t be done in 
any other way. 
Kindest regards to Liebknecht and yourself from 

Your 
F.E.