From: Jemima C Bleek (23 July 1877)

From: Jemima C Bleek (23 July 1877)

Correspondence

A letter from Jemima Bleek to Ernst Haeckel sent from Mowbray on 23 July 1877. Jemima writes almost two years after Wilhelm Bleek's death, informing Haeckel that she has finally received her Civil List pension of £100 per annum. She describes the unsatisfactory conditions of the Grey Library and the Public Library Committee's decision to give Lucy Lloyd only a month's notice. Jemima expresses deep concern over the many uncopied and unpublished manuscripts left by Wilhelm and reflects on the difficulty for women to fight the authorities. Jemima expresses her sorrow at his family's loss; she also reports on her own family and the measures she has taken to quarantine her children during a scarletina epidemic in Cape Town.

23 July 1877

Jemima Bleek (receives Civil List pension of £100), Wilhelm Bleek (Jemima Bleek's Civil List pension granted for his "literary labours and services"), Ernst Haeckel (Jemima Bleek comments on his children's photographs), Lucy Lloyd (Public Library Committee proposes giving her one month's notice), Frances Lloyd (Fanny), sister (Wilhelm Bleek's Anna in South America), brother (Ernst Haeckel's -'s loss), Theodor Bleek (in Jemima Bleek's letter to Ernst Haeckel 23 July 1877), Köhler (Dr), Ernst de Bunsen (helped arrange Jemima Bleek's Civil List pension), David Livingstone (valuable manuscript in Grey Library), Henry Bartle Frere (Sir), pension (Civil List), letter (Jemima Bleek's to Ernst Haeckel 23 July 1877), photograph (of Ernst Haeckel's children), finances (Jemima Bleek's), manuscript (many of Wilhelm Bleek's unpublished and uncopied at Grey Library), Committee of the Public Library (Jemima Bleek's comments on), Grey Library (Jemima Bleek and Lucy Lloyd's concern for safety of), Dorothea Bleek (Doris), Wilhelmine Bleek (youngest daughter of Jemima Bleek), daughter (Jemima Bleek's Wilhelmine), family (Jemima Bleek's daughters), children (Ernst Haeckel sends Jemima Bleek photographs of his), death (Ernst Haeckel's brother's loss), ill health (Jemima Bleek's anxiety for children), British Association (Ernst Haeckel's promotion of Wilhelm Bleek's Bushman work to friends at), Germany (Jemima Bleek discusses moving children to)