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In August 1879 Marx spent some time in St Helier, Jersey, with one of his daughters, Eleanor (Tussy).

On 14^th August he wrote to Engels that ‘we are leaving our present lodgings in St Aubin because Tussy and I cannot stand the monotonous  daily fare of lamb or MUTTON in consequence of which I have become in the last few days an involuntary VEGETARIAN

Marx and Eleanor promptly moved to the Hotel de l’Europe where they stayed until 20^th August without further complaint about the food. Indeed he remarked that the hotel was ‘excellent’. The building survives and according to the last reference I can find is a restaurant.

By August 25^th Marx was staying in Ramsgate at 62 Plains of Waterloo

Marx returned to a favourite subject the weather,

I have not taken and am not taking sea baths, but only warm sea baths; for in consequence of the frightful weather when we arrived in Jersey, my throat trouble got worse and was com-pounded by a sudden toothache, neither being quite gone yet, although much alleviated, and only reminding me by an occasional twinge that they are still lurking in the background.