Jenny & Karl Marx, Margate, Easter 1866
Marx spent Easter 1866 In Margate his favourite seaside resort. Easter Sunday was on 1st April 1866 and he had been there for several weeks for health reasons.
He wrote to Engels on 6th April 1866 from 5 Lansell’s Place Margate:
Dear Fred,
I have been greatly restored here, and not the smallest sign of a return of the atrocious carbuncles. The spot where the last and most malignant one was still feels a little tender. Perhaps it healed too quickly and an atom of pus is still lurking beneath the healed skin. However, if that were so, the warm sea bathes and the rough towel that I dry myself with would no doubt have dissipated the foul matter; and indeed in the last two days this vestige of the wound seems to be disappearing altogether. The only drawback is a recurrence here of rheumatic pains in my right shoulder, which is seriously disturbing my sleep. I have now been here for nearly 4 weeks and have lived for my health’s sake alone. It is time to put a stop to that soon.
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