[Draft} 
[London, 19 May 1885] 

Dear Citizen, 

..on the etc. I sent you, by registered mail, the translation with 
my comments. I am very sorry that my limited practice of Italian has 
not enabled me to do them better, but I hope they will be intelligible 
nonetheless. I am amazed that, without having lived in Germany and 
learned the language there, you have been able to render my 
thoughts so well. I only found a few abbreviated, idiomatic and 
proverbial expressions where there was an error; and even these are 
impossible to understand properly for someone who has not spoken 
the everyday language and even the dialects of the country —- things 
which are not to be found in grammars and dictionaries. And in sev- 
eral cases when you have understood the meaning well, I think you 
could be a little freer and more adventurous. 

I fear that the note about ‘Mark’ is not very clear. It is the only 
note which I think should be printed. The others are for your infor- 
mation only. If therefore you have any doubts about that note, please 
let me know and I shall try and rewrite it.*°! 

Please excuse the long time it has taken me to do the revision. But 
my days are taken up with dictating Marx’s manuscripts, and my 
evenings are not always free. In addition, I have had a Danish trans- 
lation” to check at the same time, not to mention the English transla- 
tion of Capital. 

Thanking you again for the considerable work you have done on 
my behalf, I remain 

Your devoted