[Brussels,} 15 May [1847] 

Dear Engels, 

As you know, Vogler has been under arrest in Aachen since the 
beginning of May.* This has for the time being precluded the 
possibility of getting the pamphlet” you sent here into print. The 
first '/s; of it I liked very much. The other 2 will in any case need 
some alteration. Something more specific on this point in my next. 

I enclose the print of your cartoon. I sent it to the 
Briisseler-Zeitung.'° 

As for the truly nauseous article by Grün or his associates in the 
Trier’sche Zeitung, it is of course now too late; it would have been 
good if at the outset you had published a two-line counter- 
statement in the same rag. 

I cannot go to London, not having sufficient funds. But we 
hope to send Wolff over. And then it will be enough that the two 
of you are there.’ 

Voce" money: 

You will remember that Hess owes me and my brother-in-law 
Edgar* money from the Gesellschaftsspiegel. So I am drawing a bill 
on him from here, payable 30 days at sight. Bernays likewise has 
owed me 150 fr. since May of last year. So he too will also be 
presented with a bill. 

I would therefore ask you to do the following: 

1. First send me the addresses of both; 

2. Inform both of them of the facts and tell the jackasses 

3. that if they believe they will be unable to pay the respective 
sums by 15 June, they are nevertheless to accept the bills. I shall 
then arrange for cover in Paris. Naturally you will only inform the 
jackasses of the latter if absolutely unavoidable. 

At the moment I’m in such financial straits that I have had to 
have recourse to drawing bills, and after all I don’t intend to make 

a The original is inaccurate: Vogler was arrested at the beginning of April 1847 
and returned to Brussels on 17 June. - > F. Engels, The Constitutional Question in 
Germany. - © Reference to a report from Paris of 13 April published in the section 
‘Frankreich’ of the Trier’sche Zeitung, No. 107, 17 April 1847.-4 as regards - 
© Edgar von Westphalen 

the two jackasses a present of anything. Should the asses only 
feign acceptance of the bills, 1 must, of course, know at once. 

Since the matter is very pressing, I expect you not to let a day go 
by before setting everything in order and informing me. 

Here in Brussels I have managed to hunt out an escompteur.* 

I cannot write to you at any greater length. About 12 days ago 
Breyer let a vein, but in my right arm instead of the left. Since I 
went on working as though nothing had happened, the wound 
festered instead of closing. The thing could have been dangerous 
and cost me my arm. Now it’s as good as healed. But the arm’s stil] 
weak. Mustn’t be overtaxed. 

Your 
Marx 

[From Gigot] 

My dear Fritzchen, 

Y am just in the middle of reading your pamphlet—so far it has amused me 
greatly —and feel really happy that I ain’t no German. May God or Reason or Race 
preserve us from the petty bourgeoisie! 

Avec laquelle j'ai Uhonneur d’étre. 

YOURS MOST TRULY 

Philippe 

P.S. Do drop me un demi mot sometime.