London, 7 April 1891 

Dear Kautsky, 

Your letter has just arrived. Pity you weren’t able to induce 
Schmidt ?!* to join you there; he’d have been just the man for you. 
Meissner writes to say that he has only now sent off the review copies 
of the 4th edition along with the Anti-Brentano” °° and that both have 
gone to the Neue Zeit. So you can begin forthwith; at all events you 
should have both of them before your article is printed. ?!> If not, 
write to O. Meissner, ceting me and this communication. _ 

An Alsatian, Henri Ravé, presently in jug, who translated Bebel’s 

* of the first volume of Capital-” F. Engels, In the Case of Brentano Versus Marx. 

Frau* and is now translating my Origin? under Laura Lafargue’s 
supervision, wants to know whether your Thomas Morus‘ is worth 
translating. I have recommended the book to him but at the same 
time written to say that I would ask you to send him a copy so he can 
make up his own mind about it. Address: H. Ravé, détenu a la prison, dq 
Poitiers (Vienne, France). 

Just now the French are fully occupied with their own affairs, 
namely May Day and the attendant negotiations with the Possibi- 
lists of both Allemanist °? and Broussist * persuasion ——in which our 
own chaps are acting as arbitrators!!— etc., and also with their Socza- 
liste, which explains why Paul Lafargue has done no work for the 
Neue Zeit.? Odd that the French should be adopting exactly the 
same policy towards the crumbling ranks of the Possibilists as that 
recommended by Marx in his accompanying letter of 1875 for adop- 
tion towards the Lassalleans. ** And, indeed, they have done so suc- 
cessfully up till now —a success that will doubtless be sealed by the 
Brussels Congress. !?° 

Many regards. 

Your 
FLE.