Bleek is writing to Fanny, Lucy and Julia Lloyd to thank Fanny and Julia in particular for their letters as well as for other mail that they have sent to them. Jemima is not well, probably morning sickness at the start of her first pregnancy. The Bleeks had left Cape Town for the coast, “the great heat in Town making it advisable to give Jemmie this change.” They had large airy rooms at Ruthfelder’s Hotel, with windows and glass doors that open to let in the fresh sea breezes as well as wonderful views of the “chain of mountains beginning from Devil’s Peak and Table Mountain, and ending in those mountains which kept Kalk Bay out of our sight.” They later moved to Mrs. Parke’s guest house in the Gardens for a couple of days before returning to their own home.