The notebooks form the core of the archive, from which the |xam and !kun lexicons largely derive. They also represent the most significant part of the collaborative learning of language and engagement between Bleek and Lloyd with the language instructors. There are a total of 195 notebooks, excluding the four missing (one of which is !kun).
The notebooks comprise a total of 15,325 spreads (facing pages, excluding inserts): 11,181 are |xam (2407 being WHI Bleek's and 8,774 being Lloyd's in 140 notebooks) and 1,036 spreads are Lloyd's !kun texts in 14 notebooks. Luise Schunke collected one !kun notebook for Lloyd, with Jemima collecting the 16th. One notebook of amaPondo, amaMfengu, and amaBhaca stories, likely collected by 'BL Key', was copied for Lloyd. Lloyd, with sisters Jemima and Isabella, collected 6 notebooks of languages from the Khoe-Kwadi family. Dorothea's notebooks, which contain various languages collected across southern Africa and in Tanzania, number 32.
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