MARX TO JOSEPH WEYDEMEYER*” 

{London,] 19 December 1851 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Weydemeyer, 

The day before yesterday I received your letter, sent on to me 
by Engels. 

First, my best New Year wishes to your wife* and yourseli: Ditto 
from my wife. 

a the English translation of the Manifesto of the Communist Party - © with the Revolution 
and Counter-Revolution in Germany - © Louise 

I am at this moment sitting here working on an article for you. 
Your commission arrived too late for me to be able to carry it out 
today. On Tuesday (23 December) the following will go off to you 
1. Der 18te Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte by K. Marx. 2. Der 
Staatsstreich in Frankreich by F. Wolff. 3. Nemesis by Wilhelm 
Wolff. Engels will send you his article—on Prussia, I believe— 
possibly even by today’s mail. Freiligrath has nothing ready but 
authorises you to name him as one of your collaborators. We are 
negotiating with Weerth. Likewise with Eccarius. 

You can now settle down in the United States for du moins* a 
year. ‘If’ is not going to begin on 2 May 1852.°%° 

I suppose that you will hold back your first number? until the 
above articles arrive. After all, it will only make a difference of 5 
days. For the following numbers you can announce a serialised 
work of mine, to appear article by article, namely, Neuste 
Offenbarungen des Sozialismus, oder ‘Idée générale de la Révolution au 
XIX siécle’ par J. P. Proudhon— Kritik von K.M >"! 

Write forthwith to ‘Adolf Cluss, U.S. Navy Yard, Washington 
D.C.’ We've already told him you are coming.‘ He is one of our 
best and most talented men and could be of the greatest use to 
you both generally and for the preparation and founding of your 
paper in particular. 

Don’t forget the following: 

Go and see Dana; ask him to give you the numbers of the 
Tribune in which my articles appeared,’ and send them to me 
forthwith. Hearing nothing from him, I had stopped writing, and 
there’s been such a long interval that I must see the paper itself in 
order to write the sequel, which I must do, if only for pecuniary 
reasons. ‘ 

As soon as your paper appears you must not only send it to us 
regularly, but let us have a sufficient number of copies so that we 
can send them out as samples. 

Tout a toi 
K. Marx 

Unless you are contractually committed, don’t buy the Arbeiter- 
republik' from the wretched Weitling. While you might gain 200 

aat least-> of Die Revolution-¢ See this volume, p. 496. -4 first articles 
from Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany by Engels - © All yours - ! Die 
Republik der Arbeiter 

Straubingers,”° you would lose a wider readership. Write only 
under the old name. Régle générale.