The Victorian Diary of Thomas Henry Milsom

7th February 1880 London

 

Today I have been in the British Library investigating ways to supplement my income. I met a Herr Karl Heinrich Marx : a German gentleman. He tells me that he has written a book "Das Kapital" but it has not been translated into the English  language. I presume that this a guide book to Berlin and will endeavour to buy a copy before I start on my next trip to the continent.

 

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