London, 3 June 1885 

Dear Sir, 

I have received your letter of the 24 [April]/6 May and hope you 
will have received the sheets 21/26 forwarded to you 13th May. °°! 
To-day I forward 27/33, the conclusion. In a few days I hope to be 
able to send you the preface, etc. From that preface you will see that 
the ms. of Volume III has been written as early as 1864/66, and thus 
before the period when the author, thanks to your kindness, became 
so intimately acquainted with the agricultural system of your coun- 
try: I am at present working at the chapter on the rent of land, and 
have so far not found any allusion to Russian conditions. As soon 
as the whole manuscript shall have been transcribed into a legible 
handwriting, I shall have to work it out by comparison with what 
other materials have been left by the author, and there are, for the 
chapter on rent, very voluminous extracts from the various statistical 
works he owed to you— but whether these will contain any critical 
notes that can be made use of for this volume, I cannot as yet tell. 
Whatever there is, shall be used most conscientiously. At all events 
the mere work of transcription will occupy me far into autumn, and 
as the manuscript is nearly 600 pages in folio, it may again have to be 
divided into two volumes. 

The analysis of rent is theoretically so complete that you will neces- 
sarily find therein a good deal of interest for the special conditions of 
your country. Still this ms. excludes the treatment of the pre- 
capitalistic forms of landed property; they are merely alluded to here 
and there for the sake of comparison. 

Yours very sincerely, 
P.W. Rosher 3&3