[Paris,} 23 August [1849] 

Dear Engels, 

I am being banished to the Morbihan département, the Pontine 
marshes of Brittany.”” I need hardly say that I shall not consent 
to this veiled attempt on my life. So I am leaving France.”** 

They won’t give me a passport for Switzerland, hence I must go 
to London, and that tomorrow. In any case, Switzerland will soon 
be hermetically sealed and the mice would be trapped all at one 

go. 

4 lost - general war - © Now, my dear friend, what should we for our part do? 
We must launch out into a literary and commercial venture, I await your pro- 
posals. - 4 Ferdinand Wolff - ¢ but he’s an insignificant little chap of the school of 
E. Meyen. - § Wilhelm Wolff - & It's my pseudonym. 

Besides, in London there is a positive prospect of my being able 
to start a German newspaper.’ I am assured of part of the funds. 

So you must leave for London at once. In any case your safety 
demands it. The Prussians would shoot you twice over: 1) because 
of Baden, 2) because of Elberfeld.2%° And why stay in a 
Switzerland where you can do nothing? 

You will have no difficulty in coming to London, whether under 
the name of Engels or under the name of Mayer. As soon as you 
say you want to go to England, you will receive a one-way passport 
to London from the French Embassy. 

IT count on this absolutely. You cannot stay in Switzerland. In 
London we shall get down to business. 

For the time being my wife will remain here. Continue to write 
to her at the same address: 45, rue de Lille, M. Ramboz. 

But once again, I confidently count on you not to leave me in 
the lurch. 

Your 
K. M. 

Lupus’ is at Dr Lüning’s, Zurich. Write and tell him also about 
my plan.