Paris, 13 July [1849] 
45, rue de Lille 
Address: M. Ramboz 

Dear Weydemeyer, 

Dronke will already have written to tell you that you must sell 
the red newspapers at any price.” 

I am here with my famille, sans le sou. And yet an 
opportunity has come my way of making 3,000-4,000 fr. in a few 
weeks. For my pamphlet against Proudhon,’ which he has done 
everything in his power to suppress, is beginning to sell here, and 
it is up to me to infiltrate reviews of it into the more important 
papers, thus necessitating a second edition. But for this to be of 
any help I would have to buy up the copies still available in 
Brussels and Paris in order to become sole propriétaire. 

300-400 talers would enable me to carry out this operation and 
at the same time maintain myself here during the early days. You 
might, perhaps, be able to help me in this. 

Namely, as follows: 

A lady in Rheda—Ltining is also in touch with her—sent 1,000 
talers to Carl Post for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, but recovered 
the money when that paper went under. Might she not, perhaps, 
be persuaded by your intervention to make me this advance? My 
claim to such an advance is, I believe, all the greater as I 
contributed more than 7,000 talers to the Neue Rheinische Zeitung 
which, after all, was a party enterprise. 

If at all possible, pursue this matter, but without mentioning it 
to anybody. I tell you that, unless help is forthcoming from one 
quarter or another, I shall be perdu, since my family is also here 
and the last piece of my wife’s jewellery has already found its way 
to the pawnbrokers. 

I await your reply by return. Var 

K. Marx