ENGELS TO LUCIEN-LEOPOLD JOTTRAND 

[Brussels, 30 September 1847] 

Dear Sir, 

Being obliged to leave Brussels for several months, I find myself 
unable to carry out the functions which the meeting of 27 
September saw fit to entrust to me.!? 

I therefore request you to call on a German democrat resident 
in Brussels to participate in the work of the committee charged 
with organising a universal democratic society. 

I would take the liberty of proposing to you one of the Ger- 
man democrats in Brussels whom the meeting, had he been 

a Leon Philips - > Edgar von Westphalen 

able to attend it, would have nominated for the office which, in his 
absence, it honoured me by conferring upon myself. I mean Mr 
Marx, who, I am firmly convinced, has the best claim to represent 
German democracy on the committee. Hence it would not be 
Mr Marx who would be replacing me there, but rather I who, 
at the meeting, replaced Mr Marx. 

Assuring you, Sir, of my profound esteem, I am, 

Yours very sincerely 
Frederick Engels 

Mr Marx, who was absent from Brussels at the time of the 
meeting, lives at 42, rue d’Orléans, Faubourg de Namur.