From: Wilhelm HI Bleek (14 May 1872)

From: Wilhelm HI Bleek (14 May 1872)

Correspondence

A letter from Wilhelm Bleek to Sir George Grey, sent from the Cape Town library on 14 May 1872. Bleek sends a small box in the charge of a Captain Chapman of the HMS Dido, including a belated 60th birthday gift - photos of Natives taken under Huxley's guidance - and his Bushman report for the Governor. He asks Grey to let him know the state of his health and whether the previous box of African language books arrived safely. His daughters are well, and the family collected sea specimens in Kalk Bay for his cousin Ernst Haeckel, who named a rare sponge after Bleek. At the library, Bleek is replacing the catalogues with a more accurate inventory modeled on the Burgundian Library's. He again urges Grey to visit and notes the colony's improved state under new leadership.

14 May 1872

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1. For a short summary of this letter, see Dr OH Spohr's typewritten notes on Wilhelm Bleek's letters to Sir George Grey (C10.19.1-26).