[Paris, mid-August 1849] 

Dear Weydemeyer, 

I will gladly fall in with Ruhl’s suggestion *” if he agrees to take 
over the whole of the business side, at which I am no good and 
for which he will be paid a commission. 

1) But I have no publisher on hand to make the necessary 
advances, 

a satisfied. Things are going very well - > Neue Deutsche Zeitung - © Louise - 4 very 
poorly, the natural consequence of her all too interesting condition. Good-bye, my 
friend (on the birth of Marx’s son, see this volume, p. 220). 

2) the subscription lists seem to me superfluous. Announce- 
ments in the Westdeutsche and other papers in the Rhineland and 
elsewhere would achieve the same purpose. The thing should be 
advertised particularly in the Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig and 
Breslau* papers. 

The news about your paper? is very bad. I shall at once write 
and inform Naut, the trusty old business manager of the Neue 
Rheinische Zeitung, and acquaint you with the result.?°° 

You would already have had my article‘ but for the fact that the 
illness of my wife and all the children has meant that I have been 
a kind of male nurse for the past week. 

Best regards to your wife. 

Your 
K. M. 
I hope for a reply as soon as possible.