Letter to Joseph Weydemeyer, April 9, 1850

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 9 April 1850


First published in Die Gesellschaft, Jg. VII, Bd. 2, Berlin, 1930
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 38, p. 230-231
Collection(s): Die Gesellschaft

TO JOSEPH WEYDEMEYER IN FRANKFURT AM MAIN

London, 9 April [1850]
4 Anderson Street, King's Road, Chelsea

Dear Weydemeyer,

I should be greatly obliged if you would write and tell me by return how the sales of the N.Rh.Z.[1] are going and whether we may not soon receive some money. You people in little Germany have no conception of what things are like here.

The 3rd issue is coming out on the 10th of this month. The chap in Hamburg[2] —why, we don't yet really know—has been frightfully dilatory over the thing. This will now be put a stop to.

I have also been requested by the Refugee Committee to appeal to your committee.[3] We now have 60 refugees on our hands; several hundred, who have been expelled from Switzerland, have already been announced. Hence our refugee fund will soon be down to its last monaco,[4] and then the people will be out on the street again. Warm regards to your wife,

Your K. Marx

  1. ↑ Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politisch-ökonomische Revue
  2. ↑ Julius Schuberth
  3. ↑ The Refugee Committee in Frankfurt am Main was founded by the Frankfurt Workers' Association at the end of 1849. At its meeting on 28 September 1849, presided by Joseph Weydemeyer, the Association decided to make weekly allocations to refugees.
  4. ↑ a small copper coin current in the Principality of Monaco