Engels on the excellence of Northern Cask Beer
ENGELS TO LAURA LAFARGUE IN LONDON
[Bridlington Quay,] 3 September 1880
My dear Laura, I have only a few minutes to reply to your amiable letter—we have been inspecting a geological amateur’s collection this evening and tomorrow we are off to an excursion to Flamboro’ Head. The weather here continues grand: regular Rhenish October weather, that is the acme of fine weather as far as I know, not a cloud on the sky, hot sun, cool bracing air at the same time. Why cannot you and Lafargue come for a week, the place is getting empty, plenty of apartments and accommodation of every sort.
It is now half past nine at night, all windows wide open and yet the fine cool air outside will not come in rapidly enough to enable me to keep my coat on. The beer — oh the beer, it would be worth your while to come here only in order to drink one glass of beer at the Pier refreshment rooms, a nice little café — such splendid beer!
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