London, 29 June 1884 

Dear Ede, 

1. I return Wage Labour and Capital* herewith. The Silesian edi- 
tion has certainly required a great deal of revision.?°* [ did not, it is 
true, have time to compare it with the original throughout, but only 
those passages that worried me most. However, you chaps have got it 
there and will be able to attend to that when correcting the proofs. 

2. I shall get another portrait of Marx done by the same man who 
did mine, and let you have it. It is not a chalk drawing but an 
enlarged photograph. But how will a colour-print turn out if the 
chap has never seen Moor and his singularly dark complexion? ?°° 

3. A parcel of 40 Revolutions” went off from here yesterday ad- 
dressed to Volksbuchhandlung, 3 Kasinostrasse, Hottingen-Zurich, 
Switzerland, ‘Books, Vatuz £3 Carriage forward’ (i.e. not prepaid) 
per Continentat Parcets Express, which is the correspondent of the Ger- 
man Imperial Post Office and of the Swiss Post Office, and likewise of 
the French parcels offices. The association stuff [Vereinssachen] from 
Zurich also comes here by the same route. There is no parcel post be- 

@ by Marx- ° F. Engels, Anti-Dühring. Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science; see 
this volume, p. 133. 

tween England and the Continent, hence no ‘postal packages @ 5 ki- 
los’, or not, at any rate, for this country; splitting them up would 
mean doubling the cost over here. Not splitting them up into 2 parcels 
surely wouldn’t raise the cost of consignment there as much as would 
splitting them up over here. 

4. Schorlemmer writes to say that his brother Ludwig in Darm- 
stadt has not yet received a single number of the Sozialdemokrat 
despite the fact that receipt of his subscription was acknowledged 
in the paper. Is this an isolated misfortune or general one? Please 
look into it. 

5. I can’t get hold of any socialist poems specifically by Weerth. 
There are some in Moses Hess’ old Gesellschaftsspiegel of 1845, but 
I believe you have already seen those. I once heard something about 
a collection of his verse but have never set eyes on it.? In 
any case, he never published such a thing any more than we did. 

6. The archivist will have to wait; I haven’t the time to get my 
own things in order. If I do get round to it, you may be sure he won’t 
be overlooked.?°! But now the prime consideration is the completion 
of the 2nd volume of Capital. The thing’s going swimmingly, the pre- 
liminary edition of about '/, having been done, and is progressing by 
something like '/) a printed sheet a day, or a little under. As soon as 
we get to the last part (“The Circulation of the Aggregate Social Ca- 
pital’),* Eisengarten can, with my help, copy out the existing ms. of 
1878,'7 while I can get on with the final editing of what has already 
been done. In this way we shall finish before so very long, and then go 
on to the 3rd, most important book. 

Only then will it be possible to consider putting the old pre-’48 mss. 
in order and preparing extracts thereof for the press. It’s not that 
I am unwilling, but this requires work, i.e. time. 

So you, too, have finally come round to the view that we shall end 
up by coping quite successfully with the ‘Wise Men’.?!° I sent for 
a few numbers of the Neue Welt, so as to meet the gentlemen chez eux? 
for once. So far have only read the correspondence column. German 
schoolboy cheek which presupposes a very tame readership. 

You should not, by the way, allow yourself to get worked up about 
pin-pricks; that is the golden rule in this struggle. And remember that 

* See K. Marx, Capital, Vol. 11, Part II: “The Reproduction and Circulation of the 
Aggregate Social Capital’.-° on their own ground 

92. Engels to Sarah Allen. About 6 July 1884 161 

Nothing gives one more delight 
Than one’s antagonists to bite, 
Than making scurvy jokes about 
This uncouth clod, that clumsy lout.* 
Regards to Kautsky. 
Your 
F.E.