[Manchester,] 1 April 1852 

Dear Marx, 

Got your letter this morning, actually intact. The new address 
seems to do some good. 

The mirth-provoking émigré documents will be returned to you 
tomorrow. I shall extract some notes from them. 

Little Dronke seems to have got himself properly caught in 
Paris, otherwise we should probably have heard from him. Do you 
suppose that some people belonging to ‘the Marxian sect’ really 
foregathered at the Café D.,* as the Kölnische Zeitung alleges?” I 
don’t know where these remnants could have come from. In any 
case it would have been unpardonable of Dronke to have gone to 
the café and associated publiquement with these people. But if he is 
still at liberty and there is any possibility of corresponding with 
him, we must certainly do everything we can now to bring him 
over to London—he is under an expulsion order and the fellows 
are quite capable of sending him to Algiers for rupture de ban.* So 
if we can find out more particulars, I shall see to it that I get hold 
of the £2, for we must certainly bring the little chap to safety. 
Write and tell me if you hear anything about him. 

I am going home now to finish another article for Dana which, 
if it is ready, will go off to you by the second post. Last week I had a 
terrible cold and still have it, so that for several evenings I have 
been capable of absolutely nothing. Otherwise, more would have 
been done. 

Tell Jones that he will be getting something from me next 
week,°—al]l my articles for him have, alas, been wretched, since the 
brevity of each and the negligible room available make me 
regularly forget what I wrote the week before—in addition, I have 
to write quickly and cursorily, and have no time whatever to 
collect and arrange material on the latest happenings in France. 
This constant improvisation becomes demoralising. 

4 du Danemark - > ‘* Paris, 24. Marz’ and * Paris, 24. Marz’, Kölnische Zeitung, 
No. 74, 26 March 1852. - © publicly - 4 violation of the ban - ¢ ‘Real Causes Why 
the French Proletarians Remained Comparatively Inactive in December Last’, III. 

Should I not finish the article for Dana this evening, it will be 
chiefly because I still have to go through the better part of the 
Neue Rheinische Zeitung for April and March 1849,* for on this 
occasion the Frankfurters must be given a thorough lambasting. 
The Bauer‘ is not adequate for the purpose. 

Your 
F. E.