Research help request

Below the fold is a request for someone to dig out something Marx-related from their university library for me.

I’m giving a paper on Friday on Marx and Rousseau at a conference in Manchester in honour of Norman Geras. Marx and Rousseau is a surprisingly neglected topic in view of the affinities between their work. Surprising, that is, until you find out just how sparse the references to Rousseau are in the works of Marx and Engels. In fact, there’s only one decent paper on the topic in English, “Rousseau and Marx” by Robert Wokler, in _The Nature of Political Theory_ (eds Miller and Siedentop) published in 1983. In it Wokler says that there’s no direct evidence that Marx ever read Rousseau’s _Discourse on Inequality_ (Engels certainly did read it). Now the thought occured to me of trying to find out whether Marx had a copy in his personal library (not that that is a sign that “a person has actually read something”:https://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/001011.html ). The trouble is, the most recent list is in a volume of the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, “the volume discussed here”:http://www.rre.casalini.com/2001/aq.html . It isn’t in our library but it may be in yours. If so and you feel like saving me weeks of waiting for an inter-library loan, email your findings to chris at crookedtimber.org