L2.96 pg 1 of 60

L2.96 pg 1 of 60

Correspondence

Lucy Lloyd's journal of her voyage aboard the Roman to England from Cape Town, written over the period 1-25 May 1874 for her 'dear Brothers' in Mowbray. She describes the activities on board, the people she interacts with (her cabin mate Miss Schunke and others, both "decent' and 'common' or 'rough'), her health and that of others, troubles she endures with her table seating and a damp box, and conversations with a missionary from Zululand interested in the Bushmen, Wilhelm's research and her own language learning. The journal also refers to Wilhelm's health at the full moon and Lucy's struggle to get back into reading Bushman.

01 May 1874

A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages, amateur entertainment, Anglian, anger, appearance of passengers, argument, ashore at Madeira, Bishop of Natal, bitterness, Bonn, book of Bushman, box day, brothers, Bushman work, Bushman languages, Bushmen in Zululand, Bushman in Drachensbergen, cabin mate, Cape, Cape to England, Cape passengers, Captain, chronicle of ship life, children on board, church, church services, clothing, common passengers, conditions on board, consumptives, conversations on board, crew, damp box, dear brothers, dear ones at Mowbray, dear Wilhelm, decent passengers, Doris, Dorothea Bleek, dreams, dress change, Dutch, Edith Bleek, eggs, England, Fields, Flecks, flirting, food on board, friends, full moon, gentlemen, German, health, health and the moon, helpful gentlemen, ill health, insufficient food, introduction, invalids, John Colenso, journal, journey, ladies, language learning, languages on board, letter, Library meeting, Louisa Schunke, Loui/Lucy Lloyd, luggage day, Madeira, mail steamer, May 1874, mealtimes, measles outbreak, medicine, men, Miss Schunke, mission protection for Bushmen, missionary, moon, Mowbray, Mr Jackson, Mrs Myburg, MS book of Bushman, names of passengers, Natal, Natal passengers, Native traditions, neuralgia, news, news from Natal, nieces, nice ladies, nickname, objectionable passengers, officers, opinions, organs stiff, other church, passengers, pet name, post letter, publications, quinine, reading Bushman, religion, Report, Roman, respectable vs rough passengers, seating arrangements, Second Report Concerning Bushman Researches 1875, severe remarks, sick ladies, simple girls, sisters, so-called friends, strangers, steward, struggles to read Bushman, Sushu, table seating, The Cape and its People, thinking of Wilhelm, travelling companion, treatment of Bushmen, troubles with table seating, voyage, weather, why she learned Bushman, wild Bushmen, Wilhelm Bleek, Wilhelm Bleek's printed papers, Wilhelm Bleek's health, Wilhelm Bleek at full moon, Wilhelm Bleek's publications, weather, work on Second Report, young men, Zululand

1.Miss Luise ("Louisa") Schunke contributed one notebook in 1880. 2. A note concerning Wilhelm's health setback in the Scott Family Catalogue: "As Bleek's health had suffered a severe set back in March 1874 with the worst hemorrhage that he had had in years (BC151, C100.17 Jemima Bleek to George Grey, Sept. 6, 1875 and B.C.151, C10.13, Wilhelm Bleek to George Grey, May 7, 1874)" 3. The letter description is taken from the Bleek-Lloyd Scott Family Archive Catalog 2007. [See Resources on this website]