Brussels, October 17 [1845] 
Rue de Alliance 5, hors de la 
Porte du Louvain 

Your Excellency, 

I most respectfully request you kindly to obtain for me from the 
esteemed royal government administration in Trier a certificate 
for emigration to the United States of North America. My 
discharge papers from royal Prussian military service are to be 
found in the office of the Chief Burgomaster in Trier or of the 
royal government administration there. 

Your Excellency’s most obedient servant, 

Dr. Karl Marx