[Excerpt] 
[London,] 17 September 1886 

...May [I th]ank* you for being so patient with [me] in the matter 
of your manuscript.“ As soon as the English translation of Capital °° 
has been done — in October, I hope — your ms. will be the first thing 

4 William I-> Alexander TII-° The beginning of the letter is missing, and 
the manuscript is damaged. - ¢ the Italian translation of Marx’s Wage Labour and 
Capital 

to which I shall turn my attention. I have found the Kalender and 
shall fill in the missing passage. °°* 

Yours very sincerely, 
F. E.