Karl Marx to Eduard von Müller-Tellering  
in Vienna  
Cologne, 5 December 1848  

My dear Tellering!  

You should have already received the missing issues, but most of them are missing. I am therefore still busy tracking down the lacking copies for you.  

As for your feuilleton, excuse me if, due to excessive business, I have not yet read it through. If it does not suit our newspaper, you will get it back.  

As for the addresses, all your letters have arrived. For the sake of caution address to: Herrn Werres, Unter Huthmacher 17. The address is entirely unsuspicious.  

Our newspaper is at the moment penniless. But the subscriber[s] [...] The asses are at last beginning to feel that we have always prophesied correctly; if the government does not suppress us, we will be on top at the beginning of January and I shall then do everything to remunerate you according to your achievements. Your correspondences are indisputably the best we receive, entirely in line with our tendency and, since they have been taken from our newspaper into French, Italian and English journals, you have contributed greatly to the enlightenment of the European public.  

I cannot possibly describe to you what sacrifices of money and patience I have had to bring in order to keep the newspaper going. The Germans are brain-crazed asses.  

Give my best regards to your wife and assure you of my constant friendship.  

Yours,  
K. Marx