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Campden Square, Ramsgate

It’s still very fine here, moderately hot summer temperatures
and a cool wind off the sea, on top of which the bottled beer is
excellent and salt water bathing ‘a proper treat’

Engels concluded

We are staying here until Monday fortnight and in London
shall, I trust, retire from the very idle life we’ve been a-Ieadin’ of.
The trip and the sea-bathing have done my wife a great deal of
good, so I have reason to hope that I shall also be able to get her
through the winter in passable health. Both she and I send our
kindest regards to you, your wife and the children, and in the
hope that Rheinau’s gnat population will shortly diminish I shall
close because of incipient table-laying.
Yours ever,

Engels 11 Campden Square, Ramsgate to Philipp Pauli, 11th August 1876

Both Marx and Engels were enthusiasts for the English seaside and Ramsgate was a particular favourite, although Engels also liked Eastbourne. Campden Square is centrally located in Ramsgate for shops and the Royal Harbour