IN HOTTINGEN-ZURICH 

Jersey, 26 August 1885 
31 Roseville Street 

Dear Mr Schliiter, 
Sheets 16 and 17° arrived in London after I had left — the Kaut- 

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* Louise and Minna Kautsky - ° of the second edition of Engels’ Anti-Dühring 

193, Engels to Kautsky. 6 September 1885 323 

skys and Avelings were also away so there was no one there capable of 
sending on the large quantity of incoming printed matter in some 
semblance of order. It was not until Monday that Mrs Aveling ar- 
rived at my house and posted me the sheets. These went back to you 
corrected yesterday, Wednesday. A lot of words had been inserted 
that do not appear in the original and they completely distort the 
sense. And on sheet 17 in particular the pages are in a complete mud- 
dle: 257, 262, 263, 258, 259, 264, etc., which is totally inadmissible in 
this, the most important chapter of the book, and that is why I have 
taken the precaution of writing to you. 

I shall be staying here for another fortnight.*?' After Saturday, 
3 September everything had best be sent to London again.— We are 
literally stifling here-during the present spell of fine weather, for the 
lack of rain has led to a serious water shortage on this pretty little is- 
land. I neither see nor hear anything of the party, which, if the latest 
storm in the parliamentary tea cup?’* is anything to go by, is no 
calamity. Kindest regards to Ede. 

Yours, 
F.E.