IN HOTTINGEN-ZURICH 

London, 7 December 1885 

Dear Mr Schliter, 

My best thanks for the 2 copies of Dihring.? If I can have 
20 copies all told, that will do for the time being. 
Please also send me 4 copies of the Peasant War, 3rd edition. 
I haven’t a single copy left and so cannot get to work on the new edi- 
tion. 71% 

I have no connections whatever with Eccarius and neither can nor 
wish to renew them. I shall see if the address is obtainable through 
Lessner. But I would at most advise you simply to reprint without al- 
terations, etc.— for, having gone completely to the dogs, Eccarius is 
in fact unlikely to make any; moreover, in view of his bad conscience, 
any such addenda would most likely be used by him to introduce ex- 
tenuating circumstances for the many ill-deeds he has perpetrated 
since 1873, and thus materially impair the book which was written 
with much prompting by and help from Marx (towards the end, en- 
tire pages were literally written by Marx), if not render it completely 
useless for our propaganda. I would even advise you to insist on print- 
ing it as it stands. °°? 

You will have had the bill for the photographs. * 

In my Dihring I continue to suffer at the printer’s hands even in the 
list of misprints where I find hopeless ‘error’ [Verirrung] for ‘confu- 
sion’ [Verwirrung]. 

Kind regards. 

Yours, 
F.E.