in Basel 
London, 22 December 1849 

Dear Schabelitz,

Your letter I have received, and if I have not answered it from Lausanne, that is due to various reasons, especially, however, to my great circumnavigation from Genoa to London, which held me on the water for 5 weeks. That I did not give my manuscript to Bamberger at the time is because I wanted to have it printed either as a separate pamphlet or, if that were not possible, in our review, already projected at that time. This review has now come into being and its first issue will appear in Germany in January—as you will already have seen from a somewhat premature notice in the *Berner Ztg*. It would now be very agreeable to us if you or your father would undertake the distribution in Switzerland to some extent and deal directly with us on account. You would receive the copies through our Hamburg commission agent and could perhaps take over a kind of general agency for Switzerland, since we in any case prefer to work only with solid houses, and I do not know the fellow who signed the announcement in Bern. Let me know on occasion whether the man is good. See how this can be arranged and write to me under what conditions. In any case, the arrangement must, however, include quarterly accounting and payment, at least for what comes in from fixed subscribers. Our Hamburg commission agent must also provide us with that.

Please have the enclosed announcement inserted in the *Nationalzeitung*, and if you need a filler notice from time to time, give preference to this one.

The first issue contains, besides the general introduction (by Marx), an article by me on the Reich Constitution Campaign, an article by little Wolff on the last days of the Frankfurt and Stuttgart Parliament, a review of events by Marx and me, and, if possible, the first of a series of lectures on economics which Marx is delivering here in the Workers’ Society. Then also all sorts of things—perhaps something else by Red Wolff. The latter, Marx, Weerth and I are now here, and if possible Lupus will also shortly come here.

Im übrigen things are going quite well here.—Struve and Heinzen are intriguing against the Workers’ Society and us to all and sundry, but without success. Together with a few moderated whingers who have been thrown out of our society, they are holding a separate club where Heinzen gives vent to his grudge against the pernicious doctrines of the Communists.

Write to me soon on the business point.

Your 
F. Engels 
London, 6, Macclesfield str. 
Dean str., Soho, 
22 Decbr 1849 

A happy New Year in advance. 
Be so good as to send me straight away a packet of Mierosławski’s *Rapports sur la Campagne en Bade*, Daul’s *Tagebuch eines pp.*, the Becker-Esselen rubbish and whatever else of importance has appeared on the history of Baden, i.e. what contains facts and no declamations. The amount you can either draw on me or charge against later book-publishing histories to the account of the *N. Rh. Z.*