London, 7 January 1891 

Dear Kautsky, 

Yesterday I sent to you by registered post Marx’s ms. which will 
have given you much pleasure.'! I doubt whether it will be able to 
appear in the Holy German Empire as zt stands. Take a look at it and 
delete the objectionable bits wherever feasible, replacing them with 
dots. Where the context does not permit of this, however, kindly 
mark the passages for me in the proofs and, if possible, inform me in 
a couple of lines of the reasons for the objection and I shall then do 
what I can. I should then place the amended bits in brackets and 
point out in my introductory note that these are amended passages. So 
let me have your corrections on the galleys, please. 

But there may well be other people, apart from the bigwigs in the 
police, who will be displeased when it appears. Should you feel it 
necessary to take this into account, I would ask you to send the ms. regis- 
tered to Adler. In Vienna it will doubtless be possible to print it (with 
the exception, alas, of the splendid passage on religious needs) in its 
entirety and printed it will be, whatever happens. I should imagine, how- 
ever, that this very positive intention of mine, of which I herewith notify 
you, will afford you complete protection against whatever lamenta- 
tions may arise. For after all, since none of you can stop its being print- 
ed, it would be far better for it to appear in Germany itself and in the 
Neue Zeit, the party organ founded expressly for such purposes. 

I have stopped work on the Brentano °° so as to get this thing ready 
for you; for I want to make good use of the passages it contains on the 
iron law of wages '!° and it would have been pointless not to have got 
this thing ready for the press at the same time. I had intended to pol- 
ish off Brentano this week but once again so many disturbances and so 
much correspondence have intervened that it will be virtually im- 

possible to do so. 
So if you come up against any snags, be so good as to let me know. 

Over here it’s still freezing hard. Poor Schorlemmer has a cold and 
is temporarily deaf; he was unable to come for Christmas. Sam 
Moore is seriously ill in Asaba and I am anxiously awaiting further 
news. 

Your 
F. Engels 
Regards to Tauscher.