London, 31 October 1851 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Weydemeyer, 

I am sending yet another letter to America in your wake. For 
after mature consideration with Lupus, I believe that we might do 
some business together. 

Firstly. The erstwhile Neue Rheinische Zeitung was not widely 
distributed in America. If you could manage to ferret out some 
bourgeois or other, or even just the necessary credit with a printer 
and paper merchant, I believe it would pay to create out of the 
N.Rh.Z. a kind of pocket library in the form of small booklets such 
as those produced by Becker in Cologne.” E.g. the Schlesische 
Milltarde by W. Wolff, Hungary by Engels," the Prussian 
bourgeoisie by myself” and some of Weerth’s feuilletons, etc. I 
would send you the things from here if they are not to be found 
there, at the same time indicating the most suitabje for selection. 
You would have to write a short general introduction to this 
‘N.Rh.Z. Pocket Library’, and notes or a postcript to individual 
volumes where circumstances seemed to demand it. 

Secondly. Similarly, you could bring out in the same form and 
with explanatory remarks Engels’ and my anti-Heinzen pieces 
from the Deutsche-Brüsseler-Zeitung’ 1 think they should sell 
well. 

We would share the profits after deducting production costs. 

Thirdly. 1 have had all kinds of inquiries and orders from 
America for the 6 numbers of my Revue that have appeared, but 
have not responded to any of them as I could not trust the rascals 
there. You could announce that the thing is to be had from you, 
but obviously a fair number of orders would have to be received 
before we would dispatch anything from here. 

Fourthly. You as well as ourselves could, if the moment 
demanded it, include in the small library referred to above 

a F, Engels, ‘The Magyar Struggle’, ‘Hungary’ and other articles. - > K. Marx, ‘The 
Bourgeoisie and the Counter-Revolution’. - © F, Engels, “The Communists and Kart 
Heinzen’; K. Marx, ‘Moralising Criticism and Critical Morality’. 

pamphlets written in response to that demand. Commercially it is, 
of course, safer and more convenient to start off with material that 
is ready to hand. In your short forewords and postscripts you 
could conduct the necessary polemic, both to the left and to the 
right. 

I therefore suggest that you should turn publisher. There’s less 
to it than to a newspaper, and politically you achieve the same 
end. You avoid the long, time-consuming preparations attaching 
to a journal. 

I believe that if you put the matter properly to Reich, who has 
money, he will join you in the enterprise. 

Warm regards to your family from my family, Freiligrath, 
Lupus, etc. 

Your 
K. Marx