75 

MARX TO EDUARD von MULLER-TELLERING 

Cologne, 15 January [1849] 

Dear Tellering, 

You always calculate your posting days wrongly because you 
imagine that the post from Austria and Berlin arrives here 
regularly. But it’s always 1-2 days late and is exceedingly irregular. 
I got your first letter from Vienna on the evening of the 10th. On 
the lith I promptly sent a post-restante letter to Oderberg,’ 
enclosing 50 talers in money orders.*”' Hence you'll have to return 
to Oderberg in any case, so as to pick up the money. 

You will receive the newspapers, provided you write and tell me, 
immediately you get back from Oderberg, whereabouts you intend 
to live in the interim. 

Despite Geiger’s malevolence, I hope to see the matter of your 
passport finally settled within 2-3 days. But you must also tell me 
where our Berlin friend is to send your passport to. 

If you have to keep away from Vienna—which would be an irreparable 
loss to the paper? and would mean your appointing a deputy 
responsible for day-to-day information—BreslauS would seem to 
me to be the most suitable place to stay. I frequently think 
sorrowfully of your wife,” who deserves a more comfortable lot. 

I am enclosing an issue of the ‘Neue Rheinische Zeitung’, which will, 
I trust, be of interest to you on account of the leading article on the 
Magyars.° 

Write to me as soon as you possibly can. In France the fun will 
begin anew in the spring. The bourgeois republic’s infamy has 
advanced too rapidly towards the ‘heyday of its transgressions’.' 

Yours 
K. Marx