Cologne [about, 24 April 1848] 
Apostelnstrasse Nr. 7 

Dear Engels, 

A good many have already been subscribed for here, and we 
shall probably soon be able to make a start.?!* But now you must 
without fail make demands on your old man and in general 
declare definitively what is to be done in Barmen and Elberfeld. 

A prospectus (written by Biurgers),° etc., has been sent from 
here to Hecker in Elberfeld. 

* madman (ironically comparing the German citizens with the men of the most radical 
trend during the French Revolution) -> Anna and Marie are Engels’ sisters. - 
© H. Burgers, ‘Prospectus for the Founding of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (see 
present edition, Vol. 7, pp. 539-41), later published in Das Westphdlische Dampfboot, 
No. 12, 17 May 1848. 

Have you no address for Dronke? He must be written to 
forthwith. 

Answer by return. I might come to your part of the world if 
things don’t look too fearsome with you.?" 

Your 
M.