Marx spent much of the summer of 1879 in Jersey and then Ramsgate. Both he and his wife Jenny were unwell and looked to sea air and bathing to help.
Much of the correspondence between Marx and Engels relates to political campaigns and developments they were involved in. However there are also frequent mentions of periods away at seaside resorts.
In Ramsgate Marx spent time to avoid other foreign exiles but reported that he had met one, Meyer, on the sands who fortunately had taken lodgings in Margate. The weather was at best indifferent it seems
MARX TO ENGELS
IN LONDON
[Ramsgate,] 11 September 1879
62 Plains of Waterloo
DEAR FRED,
Letter and enclosure received with many thanks.
The Longuet family will be ‘making’ for London, as Lessner
puts it, on Saturday (next). So far all has gone well with
Jennychen, although she still has a bit of asthma….
…The weather here is partly good and partly bad, the latter
having a tendency to predominate.
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