MARX TO ENGELS*”’ 
IN EASTBOURNE 4% 

Ramsgate, 25 August 1879 
62 Plains of Waterloo 

Dear Frep, 

My letter from Jersey’? and yours from Eastbourne’ have 
evidently crossed. 

Last Wednesday,” the very day after we had heard by telegraph 
of the catastrophe at Ramsgate,*” we left for London first thing in 
the morning. For Tussy’s sake I was sorry to cut short her stay in 
Jersey but knew that, for various reasons, my presence had 
become necessary in Ramsgate. I arrived there on Thursday 
amidst thunder, lightning and torrents of rain. On Friday it was 
fine, on Saturday !T ralnep pocs anp cats from morn till night, fine 
again yesterday, outlook uncertain today. Place is full of Jews and 
fleas. 

The main thing is that Jennychen has got safely through the 
9 critical days and, considering THE CIRCUMSTANCES, is reasonably well. 
For the time being she is feeding the baby herself; most desirable 
that she should go on being able to do so. My wife is making slow 
progress but is better nonetheless. 

My head’s not quite all right yet. Yesterday, by way of a test, I 
glanced at certain mathematical notebooks I had brought with me, 
but very soon had to abandon the premature jos which was done 
only as a—TEST. 

I have not taken and am not taking sea baths, but only warm sea 
baths; for in consequence of the frightful weather when we 

a See this volume, pp. 372-74. - > 20 August 

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. 

Hirsch is in London’; he had left his visiting card at my house, 
but I had no time to look him up (he’s staying with Lessner) 
because of my abrupt departure from London. The enclosed letter 
from Kaub will inform you of the very odd circumstances 
attending Hirsch’s renewed expulsion from Paris. 

I hope that there has been an improvement in Schollymeyer’s 
condition. Kindest regards to him and Pumps to whom in addition 
Johnny asks to be specially recommended. 

Have you read Allman’s—or whatever he’s called—inaugural 
speech?°’”* It’s something I would have been capable of myself, 
although No MAN OF SCIENCE. 

Adio, OLD Boy. 

Your 
Moor 

Wright, the head of the Massachusetts Lazor Statistics Bureav, 
has sent me the complete set of Reports From 1874 to 1879 (so 
doesn’t know about Harney’s earlier consignments), together with 
the compendium of the Massachusetts Census, and has, at the 
same time, written to say THAT ‘HE SHALL BE PLEASED, IN FUTURE, TO SEND YOU 
OUR PUBLICATIONS AS SOON AS ISSUED’. 

Such ‘politesses’ come to us only from Russia and the Unrrep 
STATES. 

Dana, my old patron, called Last Frivay> at Maitland Park, ‘Tussy 
SENT ME HIS CARD.