Paris, 26 March 1848 

Dear Emil, 

After the glorious February revolution and Belgium’s stillborn 
March revolution, I came back here last week. I wrote to Mother 
asking for money so that within a few days I could return to 

a So much the better. - > See this volume, p. 162. - © ‘Instruction du Gouvernement 
provisoire pour l’exécution du décret du 5 mars 1848, relatif aux élections générales’, 
Le Moniteur universel, No. 70, 10 March 1848. - 4 in my absence 

Germany * where we are starting up the Rheinische Zeitung* again. 

Mother is now very anxious to see me back in Germany, partly 
because she believes that there might again be some shooting 
here in the course of which I could get hurt, partly because 
she wants me to return anyway. However she also says in her 
letter: 

‘How I can be expected to send you the money, I really don’t know, since a few 
days ago Fould notified Father that he was doing no more business, and since 
several good bills sent him by Father came back and were protested. Write and tell 
me, then, how I can be expected to let you have the money.’ 

The simplest thing would be for you to send me 20 pounds in 
banknotes, these being highly regarded here, and at once arrange 
with my old man to reimburse you. In this way I shall get my 
money quickly and be able to leave, whereas I would otherwise be 
stuck here for another week before getting money from Barmen, 
let alone Engelskirchen. I am therefore writing to Barmen this 
very day for them to repay you the £20, and I would ask you to 
arrange matters in the way I have just said, since bills are no 
longer any good. 

You can send half of the bisected banknotes to me today, 
addressed to 19ter rue de la Victoire, Paris, and the remainder 
next day to Mile Félicité André, same street and No. This will foil 
letter thieves. 

Here things are going very well i.e. the bourgeoisie, who were 
beaten on 24 February and 17 March,’ are once more raising their 
heads and railing horribly against the Republic. But the only result 
of this will be that a thunderstorm quite unlike anything they have 
known before will very soon break over them. If the fellows persist 
in their insolence, some of them will very soon be strung up by the 
people. In the provisional government they have a certain party, 
namely Lamartine, the soft-soaper, whose life will also soon be 
forfeit. The workers here, 200,000-300,000 strong, will hear of no 
one but Ledru-Rollin, and they are right. He is the most resolute and 
radical of all. Flocon, too, is very good; I’ve been to see him once 
or twice and am about to do so again; he’s a thoroughly honest 
fellow. 

We have nothing to do with the great crusade which is 
departing from here to set up the German republic by force of 
arms.”'° 

,2°9 

a Neue Rheinische Zeitung - © See this volume, p. 168. 

My kindest regards to Marie and the little ones and reply by 
return. 

In haste, 
Your 
Frederick