L1.42 from JC Bleek to F, LC Lloyd (21 August 1869)

L1.42 from JC Bleek to F, LC Lloyd (21 August 1869)

Correspondence

Jemima Bleek's letter to her sisters Fanny and Lucy Lloyd, dated 21 August 1869 from Bonn. Jemima has received her sisters' letters and responds to their news of Lucy's "terrible pain" from her nervous condition. The main body of the letter concerns her getting "full permission" (and advice) to journey to the Cape before her confinement from a trusted Bonn doctor she consulted. Jemima explains the doctor's concerns over her wintering in Europe as well as her ability to nurse a baby on a voyage, and she alludes to discussing her dead child Ernst with him. Wilhelm takes over her letter when she retires with a sore throat.

21 August 1869

August 1869, Auguste Sethe, Berlin departure, Bleek family, Bonn, brothers, Cape, Cape Spring weather, confinement, dear brothers, despair, doctor, doctor's advice and permission, Dr Veit, Ernst Bleek, experiences nursing, family, Fan/Fanny/Frances Lloyd, Germany, ill health, Julia/July Lloyd, letter, Loui/Lucy Lloyd, mother, mutter, nervous pain, news, news from home, nursing baby, pain, permission to return, plans, powerlessness, pregnancy concerns, pregnancy travel, return to Cape, sisters, sore throat, Spring, strength, Veit, visits, voyage, voyage worries, weather, Wilhelm Bleek, writing letters

1. Ernst Bleek died 18 February 1869. 2. The letter description is taken from the Bleek-Lloyd Scott Family Archive Catalog 2007. [See Resources on this website]