Reference code
ZA UCT BC151_2008 Addition_I_IA_26
Title
Wilhelm Bleek. Letter to Lucy Lloyd
Date(s)
- 1863 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
4p., octavo.
Name of creator
(1827-1875)
Name of creator
(1834-1914)
Name of creator
(1873-1948)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
November 6, 1863. Cape Town. To “My dear Loui . . .”
Jemima is much better, no longer needs the nurse and has the doctor’s permission to go out. Little Bella is having a lot of pain from cutting her teeth and “a curious strong pain in her left shoulder.” Bleek had taken Nellie and Bella on a walk up the Lion’s Rump to see Mr. Maskew, the Librarian, at his house and farm, but the climb had exhausted both Bleek and Bella although Nellie “enjoyed it exceedingly and it did her a great deal of good.” Jemima would have no time to write before the mail closed. “Tomorrow [November 7, Lucy’s 29th birthday] we shall be thinking much of you dear Loui – and we wish you all possible happiness in the new year beginning for you, and in all those many ones which we hope will still follow. We so hope things will turn out so much better than our short foresight is able to anticipate them, and that you will indeed gain again the strength and health sufficient to let you enjoy
existence. As to the children, things have turned out so much better than any one could foresee and I believe we all may look with some satisfaction upon the way in which they are at present situated -- and for them at least your father’s departure has for the present, I believe, been rather a benefit than otherwise.” He goes on to give news just received from Miss Townsend in England of Bishop Colenso and his family as well as of “Mrs. Bleek’s father the Rev. Mr. Lloyd” whom she had recently seen at the Gospel Propagation Society in London.
Jemima is much better, no longer needs the nurse and has the doctor’s permission to go out. Little Bella is having a lot of pain from cutting her teeth and “a curious strong pain in her left shoulder.” Bleek had taken Nellie and Bella on a walk up the Lion’s Rump to see Mr. Maskew, the Librarian, at his house and farm, but the climb had exhausted both Bleek and Bella although Nellie “enjoyed it exceedingly and it did her a great deal of good.” Jemima would have no time to write before the mail closed. “Tomorrow [November 7, Lucy’s 29th birthday] we shall be thinking much of you dear Loui – and we wish you all possible happiness in the new year beginning for you, and in all those many ones which we hope will still follow. We so hope things will turn out so much better than our short foresight is able to anticipate them, and that you will indeed gain again the strength and health sufficient to let you enjoy
existence. As to the children, things have turned out so much better than any one could foresee and I believe we all may look with some satisfaction upon the way in which they are at present situated -- and for them at least your father’s departure has for the present, I believe, been rather a benefit than otherwise.” He goes on to give news just received from Miss Townsend in England of Bishop Colenso and his family as well as of “Mrs. Bleek’s father the Rev. Mr. Lloyd” whom she had recently seen at the Gospel Propagation Society in London.