L3.180 from DF Bleek to CM Doke (04 September 1940)

L3.180 from DF Bleek to CM Doke (04 September 1940)

Correspondence

A letter from Dorothea Bleek, 4 September 1940, in response to one from Professor Clement M Doke of 26 August. Dorothea writes of her "preparation of a dictionary of all Bushman languages and dialects". She has completed the words with a "lip click" and almost finished with the non-click words. However, she has been forced to put aside "valuable" unpublished texts by her father and aunt so that she can complete the dictionary. She hopes the Inter-University Committee will help her raise funds to print the dictionary when it is complete.

04 September 1940

4 September 1940, aunt's texts, Bushman Dictionary, Bushman languages and dialects, Clement M Doke, click, dictionary, Dorothea Bleek, father's texts, financing dictionary publication, funding support, Inter-University Committee, letter, lip click, Lucy Lloyd, non-click words, preparation of dictionary, publication of dictionary, report on unpublished texts, unpublished texts, valuable texts, Wilhelm Bleek

1. Bleek refers in this letter to a report Doke is making to the Committee regarding the status of the Bushman Dictionary and texts left by Bleek and Lloyd. (See Doke's letter of 10 September 1940.) 2. The letter description is taken from the Bleek-Lloyd Scott Family Archive Catalog 2007. [See Resources on this website]