D1.8.15: [Untitled]

D1.8.15: [Untitled]

Newspaper Clippings

Bleek responds defensively to Dr Ross's letter to the editor, again stating that he found the language and approach of Ross's report unthorough, indicative of inexperience, and ultimately unhelpful. Bleek feels that Ross is misconstruing his professional criticism as a personal attack and that Ross should value criticism, particularly at this stage of his career. Bleek feels that medical practitioners can dispense with the fussiness of professional nomenclature once their expertise is proven and that Ross's premature aversion to specificity as an unestablished young professional is problematic.

Printed newsprint glued on paper

27 December 1864

One cut-out column of printed newsprint mounted on foolscap folio (warped).

Christmas (Bleek wants no quarrel with Ross at), Dr Ross (accuses Wilhelm Bleek of impugning his veracity), professional nomenclature (is not optional for unproven medicine men)

Pressed clippings of Victorian current affairs opinion pieces by Wilhelm Bleek. Published in Het Volksblad on Tuesday, December 27th, 1864. This one short column was Bleek's reply to Dr Ross's letter to the editor, defensively refuting Ross's interpretation of his (fair) criticism. Dr William Henry Ross became Surgeon Superintendent at Robben Island in 1884 (De Villiers, 1971: 85).

Van de Sandt de Villiers & Co.