L1.36 from WHI Bleek to LC Lloyd (07 September 1869)

L1.36 from WHI Bleek to LC Lloyd (07 September 1869)

Correspondence

A letter from Wilhelm Bleek to Lucy Lloyd on Tuesday 7 September 1869, from Bonn in Germany. Wilhelm reports on how little work he has managed to do due to ill health. His and Jemima's manner of living is ill suited to that of the Germans, which took them out of their "power". Jemima is also in poor health. He asks Lucy to acquire the small attached house for their maids and tells Lucy they have hired a German one for Jemima. He reports on activities with his German family and on sending his African Fables in German to a publisher.

07 September 1869

African Fables, Bonn family, Bonn visit, business, Cape Town arrangements, confinement, German maid, German ways of living, house, house rental, ill health, Jemima Bleek, Julia Lloyd, library, Lucy Lloyd, maids' house, maid engaged, out of our power, publication, return plans, return voyage, September 1869, service, unfit for work, weak, Wilhelm Bleek

1. They are presumably staying at Wilhelm's mother's house in Bonn. 2. Tante Bertha is Wilhelm's mother's sister, Bertha Sethe. 3. The letter description is taken from the Bleek-Lloyd Scott Family Archive Catalog 2007. [See Resources on this website]