This is the last letter that Lucy received from the Bleeks before their arrival in Cape Town. Bleek writes: “There are a few things which we have done here, but very few indeed. I was so exceedingly unfitted for work almost the whole time that we were in Germany. Our manner of living being here out of our power has not been good for both of us, particularly as we are both now unaccustomed to German ways of living. Just now I am particularly weak. . . But first to business. As there will be no time (nor would it do) to get into another house we want you if possible to take for us also the little attached house (formerly Honey[bourne’s?] ) in which perhaps the maids may sleep, particularly during Jemmie’s confinement.. We have now engaged as maid a German woman of 28 years of age, a native of Bonn, daughter of a musician. She has been for ten years in service, understands English and French, and has very good characters – one of which was given to us orally by a Mistress who had her seven years ago for three years, and who is herself a Dutch lady married to an Englishman . . . We have engaged her for three years. . . . I have dispatched my African fables in German to the publisher and hope he will publish them although I do not expect any profit to accrue to me from it.”