MARX TO JOSEPH WEYDEMEYER2” 

[Paris, end of July 1849] 

Dear Weydemeyer, 

I have heard from Dronke that it’s no go with the Westphalian 
lady.* Well, it can’t be helped. 

Now I should appreciate your advice as to how best to publish 
pamphlets. 

I should like to start with the pamphlet on wages of which only 
the beginning appeared in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung.” I would 
write a short political foreword to it on the present status quo. Do 
you think that, e.g., Leske would be agreeable? But he would have 
to pay, as soon as he had the manuscript in his hands, and pay 
well, since I know that this pamphlet will attract and will find a 
mass of subscribers in advance. My present financial état will not 
permit me to settle my outstanding compte’ with Leske.?” 

Were Leske then to find that the thing is well received, we could 
continue in this way. 

Yesterday I had a letter from Engels‘; he is in Switzerland and, 
as Willich’s adjutant, has taken part in four encounters. 

The sword of Damocles still hangs over my head; my expulsion‘ 
has neither been rescinded nor, for the moment, is it being 
enforced. 

4 See this volume, p. 201. - > K. Marx, Wage Labour and Capital. - © condition - 
4 account - € See this volume, pp. 202-04. - f ibid., pp. 207, 211, 212. 

93. Marx to Weydemeyer. Mid-August 1849 209 

Awkward though the present state of affairs may be for our 
personal circumstances, I am nevertheless among the satisfaits. Les 
choses marchent trés bien* and the Waterloo suffered by official 
democracy may be regarded as a victory.””” ‘Governments by grace of 
God’ are taking it upon themselves to avenge us on the bourgeoisie, 
and to chastise them. 

One of these days I may perhaps send you a short article for 
your paper” on the state of affairs in England.” Just now I find it 
too boring, having already discussed the matter in a number of 
private letters. 

Write to me direct and to my own address: 45, rue de Lille, 
Monsieur Ramboz. 

My best regards to your wife and yourself from my wife and 
me. The former is trés souffrante, conséquence naturelle de son état par 
trop intéressant. 

Adieu, mon cher,’ and reply soon. 

Your 
K. M.