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Title: Marx to Collet Dobson Collet, London, 11 August 1856
Description: Marx accepts Collet's proposals for the printing of his Revelations of the Diplomatic History of the 18th Century in The Free Press.
Author: Karl Marx
Date: 1856-08-11
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/originales/1856-08-11%20Marx%20to%20Collet%20Dobson%20Collet
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*Letter from Karl Marx to Collet Dobson Collet, editor of The Free Press, London, 11 August 1856. Manuscript kept at the IISG, Amsterdam (Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels Papers, inv. C 115-120, image 2), transcribed from the digital facsimile by the Escuela de marxismo, 2026 (double reading and collation with the image). Diplomatic transcription: spelling and punctuation of the manuscript; underlinings in italics; deletions as ~~text~~; [?] after an uncertain reading, [ilegible] for what cannot be read. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/1856-08-11%20Marx%20a%20Collet%20Dobson%20Collet)*

11 Aug. 1856.  
28, Dean st., Soho. Lon.  


Dear Sir,  


I approve of course. of the suggestions of your letter of the 8th inst. regarding „the headings per chapters" and the appearing[?] of the notes at the bottom of the text. As to the cutting of chapters into parts, you must of course use your discretion as called for by the exigencies of space etc. The alterations considered necessary in chapter II will be forwarded in the course of the week.

Y. f.  
K. M.  
J.[?] D. Collet, Esq.