Lausanne, 23 August 1849 
8, Place de la Palud 

Dear Weydemeyer, 

Post tot discrimina rerum‘—after umpteen arrests in Hesse and 
the Palatinate," after 3 weeks of sybaritic living in Kaiserslautern, 
after a glorious 4 weeks’ campaign in which, for a change, I 
buckled on my sword-belt and acted as Willich’s adjutant, after 4 

a Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politisch-ökonomische Revue - > Wilhelm Wolff - © After so 
many vicissitudes (Virgil, Aeneid, I). 

weeks of tedious cantoning with the refugee detachment in the 
Vaud Canton, I am at last finding my feet here in Lausanne. The 
very first thing I shall do is sit down and compose a merry tale of 
the whole Palatinate-Baden frolic.* But since I no longer have any 
contact with Germany and do not even know which towns are or 
are not under martial law, I don’t know what publisher to 
approach. I’m no longer acquainted with such folk. You are on 
the spot and hence will be better able to say which are the right 
publishers with whom to negotiate something of this kind; it will, 
of course, be quite innocuous and will not involve any risk of 
confiscation or prosecution. There might be such a one in 
Frankfurt. But he must have money. Please be good enough to 
write to me about this, if possible by return, so that I can take the 
necessary steps at once. 

I recently saw your red Becker,” very jaunty, in Geneva; he was 
tippling with the popular man, Esselen, and other easy-going diis 
minorum gentium in the country. 

Warm regards to your wife and all our acquaintances 

from your 
Engels