Jemima is staying at Kalk Bay presumably with Fanny as Lucy and Julia are with Bleek. No mention is made of where Edith is, but most probably she is with Bleek and her aunts. Lucy Lloyd is to join Jemima the following day –
the rain prevented her from leaving on the 29th. The English Mail had just arrived. Bleek has received a letter from his first cousin Ernst Haeckel telling him that Bleek’s book on the origin of language has been published – Haeckel edited it, and saw it through the press for him. Bleek includes some comments from Haeckel concerning the general interest in origins at this time. He has sent his cousin a pamphlet of his own “On the origin and the genealogy of mankind,” which had been published two months previously.