To His Excellency Herr Gortz, Royal Prussian Landrat 
and Chief Burgomaster 

Your Excellency, 

In reply to your esteemed letter of the 8th of this month I 
hereby state that my request of the 17th of the previous month for 
release from citizenship of the Kingdom of Prussia for the purpose 
of emigration to the United States of North America related solely 
to my own person, but, if it should be necessary for granting consent, I 
request that the release should be extended to my family as well. 

Your Excellency’s most obedient servant, 
Dr. Karl Marx 

Brussels, November 10, 1845 

H. Schiel, Die Umwelt des jungen script 
Karl Marx, Trier, 1954 Published in English for the first 

time