[Paris, end of July 1849] 

Dear Engels, 

I have suffered a great deal of anxiety on your account and was 
truly delighted when yesterday I received a letter in your own 
hand.* I had got Dronke (who is here) to write to your 
brother-in-law” asking for news of you. He, of course, knew 
nothing. 

My whole family is here; the government wanted to banish 
me to Morbihan, the Pontine marshes of Brittany.” So far I have 
frustrated their intention. But if I am to write to you in greater 
detail, both about my own circumstances here and about affairs in 
general, you must let me have a safer address, for things are really 
appalling here. 

You now have the best opportunity to write a history of or a 
pamphlet on the Baden-Palatinate revolution.?”* Had you not 
taken part in the actual fighting, we couldn’t have put forward our 
views about that frolic. It would be a splendid chance for you to 
define the position of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung vis-a-vis the 
democratic party generally. I am positive that the thing will sell 
and bring you money. 

I have embarked on negotiations with a view to starting a 
politico-economic (monthly) periodical in Berlin which would have 
to be largely written by us two.?” 

Lupus‘ is also in Switzerland, I believe in Berne. Weerth was 
here yesterday; he is setting up an agency in Liverpool. Red 
Wolff? is living here with me. Finances are, of course, in a state of 
chaos. 

Freiligrath is in Cologne now as heretofore. If my wife were not 
in an état par trop intéressant,* I would gladly leave Paris as soon as it 
was financially possible to do so. 

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a See this volume, pp. 202-04. - b Emil Blank - © Wilhelm Wolff - 4 Ferdinand 
Wolff - € all too interesting condition (on the birth of Marx’s son, see this volume, p. 
220) 

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