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London, 25 April 1850 

Dear Weydemeyer, 

Your letter to Marx arrived today, together with £5 for the 
refugee fund and an enclosure for me. You will meanwhile have 
received two letters© containing the Refugee Committee’s state- 
ments, its appeal, and its record of accounts.* Get these printed as 
quickly as possible and do whatever you can in the vicinity to 
collect funds for the refugees. How things are in general, you will 
see from the enclosed letter to Dronke.*!! Perhaps something 
could be raised in Franconia, Nuremberg, Bayreuth, etc., etc. The 
N.Rh.Zig. has a very large circulation there. If you have an 
address in Munich, write there likewise. You will realise that now, 
when those jackasses, Struve and Company, are trying, on the eve 

* See this volume, pp. 230-31. - > Louise -¢ See this volume, p. 232 (the second letter 
has not survived). - 4 K. Marx and F. Engels, ‘Statement. 20 April 1850’; Accounts of 
the Social-Democratic Refugee Committee in London. 23 April 1850; and the appeal 
may be the Appeal for Support for German Political Refugees. 20 September 1849. 

of the revolution, to make use of the refugees to get their names 
into the papers again, it becomes a matter of honour for us to go 
on supporting at least our own refugees, and not to let the best of 
the new arrivals fall in their turn into the clutches of those 
jackasses. 

We believed that the two following issues of the Revue had been 
in your hands, the 2nd for 5 weeks, and the 3rd for several days 
at the least. So that jackass, Naut, never sent them to you! A rude 
letter has already gone off to him today, telling him to send them 
to you forthwith.*? He must have had the 3rd issue for a week. 
But wait till you’ve also got the 3rd issue, which brings the first 
series of articles? to a definitive close, before writing a critique of 
it. 

Adieu, your 
F. E. 

We have just heard that those wretches, Struve, Tellering, 
Schramm, Bauer? (of Stolpe), etc., etc., have put it about in 
sundry German papers that our committee‘ is itself swallowing up 
the refugee funds. This infamy is also being spread by letter. You 
cannot have read of it anywhere, otherwise you would have 
entered the lists long ago on our behalf. You know that the re- 
volution has cost all of us money and has never brought us in 
a centime. Not even the Neue Preussische Zeitung, etc., have ever 
dared to reproach us with such things. The rotten democrats, the 
impotent ‘great men’ of the petty bourgeoisie, alone were vicious 
enough to stoop to such baseness. Our committee has now 
rendered accounts on 3 occasions,? on each of which the donors 
were invited [to appoint) representatives to verify the books and 
receipts. What other committee has done that much? A receipt is 
to hand for every centime. Not one committee member has ever 
received a centime from the funds, nor would he ever ask for one, 
however much he was down on his luck. Not one of our best 
friends has ever received more than the least of the refugees; 

a F, Engels, The Campaign for the German Imperial Constitution. - b Rudolf 
Schramm, Louis Bauer -* the Social-Democratic Refugee Committee - 
4 Accounts of the Committee of Support for German Refugees in London. 3 
December 1849; Accounts of the Social-Democratic Refugee Committee in London. 
Beginning of March 1850; Accounts of the Social-Democratic Refugee Committee 
in London. 23 April 1850. 

no one who had a source of income received so much as a sou. 
If Dronke is no longer there, open his letter, read it, and send it 
on to him.