London, 5 September [1849] 

Dear Freiligrath, 
Address: Karl Blind, 18 Roberts Street, 

Peterson’s Coffeehouse, Grosvenor Square; 
therein the letter to me under cover. 

I can only write a word or two since I have had a kind of 
cholerine for the past 4-5 days and feel dreadfully listless. 

My wife has written and asked me to acknowledge receipt of 
your letter enclosing 100 fr. Just imagine what blackguards the 
Paris police are; they have even been harassing my wife and it was 
only with difficulty that she succeeded in obtaining permission to 
remain in Paris until 15 September. We had rented our lodgings 
there up to that date. 

I am now in a really difficult situation. My wife is in an 
advanced state of pregnancy,’ she is obliged to leave Paris on the 
15th and I don’t know how J am to raise the money for her 
journey and for settling her in here.?°° 

On the other hand there are excellent prospects of my being 
able to start a monthly review? here; but I am pressed for time 
and the first weeks constitute the real difficulty. 

Lassalle seems to have been offended by my letter to you and 
another I wrote to him. This was certainly very far from my 

a See this volume, ‘p. 220. - > Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politisch-ökonomische Revue - 
© See this volume, p. 204. 

intention, and I should already have written to him, if my present 
condition did not make letter-writing a real burden to me. 

Once I am more or less on my feet again I shall write to you in 
greater detail about politics. I look forward to a few lines from 
you soon. Best regards to your wife,” Daniels, etc. 

Your 
K. Marx