London, 23 October 1884 

Dear Ede, 

Herewith the preface.* If you are going to add the ‘libre échange’? 
to it, include what I have appended on the last page, otherwise 
alter it.° 

I have also taken out a money order for £ | in your favour, this be- 
ing Schorlemmer’s contribution to the election fund. You are prob- 
ably already aware that Schorlemmer was charged in Darmstadt. 
When the arrest was made at Haug’s house in Freiburg, they also 
found a copy of the Sozialdemokrat addressed to his brother ‘— ergo 
domiciliary search, resulting in the discovery of letters from Schor- 
lemmer which contained indifferent jokes about Bismarck — resulting 
in further inquiries about him at his mother’s house and at Hochst 
where he then happened to be. To spare his mother unpleasantness 
he took his departure. Caused a great furore in Darmstadt.*°* 

At Bebel’s suggestion I have sent Schumacher some information 
about Rittinghausen in 1848. 

What has by now, alas, become a very lengthy preface does not 
see.the end of Mr Rodbertus; in the preface to the 2nd book of Capi- 

tal I shall mount another attack on his ‘discoveries’ about surplus 

@ F, Engels, ‘Marx and Rodbertus’.- ‘free trade’- © See previous letter.- ° Lud- 
wig Schorlemmer-* See present edition, Vol. 36. 

value. Odd that Ricardo should be so completely forgotten in Ger- 
many! Regards to Karl Kautsky. 

Your 
F. E. 

Should Dietz send the manuscript and proofs of the preface to 
Zurich, kindly send them on here.