From: Jemima C Bleek (20 February 1891)

From: Jemima C Bleek (20 February 1891)

Correspondence

A letter from Jemima Bleek to Ernst Haeckel sent from Bonn on 20 February 1891. Jemima congratulates Haeckel on his daughter Elizabeth's engagement and recalls their meeting the previous summer. She reports that Hermann and Sophie Bleek are moving temporarily while their new house is completed and Gustchen [?] remains in Strassburg. She also worries Tante Bertha feels Dr Quincke's loss deeply. Jemima adds that her half-sister Isabella is returning to South Africa to help her married sister and hopes the change and move to her "native climate" may improve her health.

20 February 1891

Jemima Bleek (in Bonn), Ernst Haeckel (Jemima Bleek congratulates him on daughter Elizabeth's engagement), letter (Jemima Bleek's to Ernst Haeckel 20 February 1891), family (news in Jemima Bleek's letter), new house (in Jemima Bleek's letter to Ernst Haeckel 20 February 1891), brother (Wilhelm Bleek's Hermann and wife Sophie), sister (Jemima Bleek's half- Isabella returning to SA to help her married -), engagement (news of Ernst Haeckel's daughter Elizabeth's), Isabella Lloyd (Jemima Bleek's half-sister), aunt ("Tante Bertha" Sethe), Bertha Sethe ("Tante"/Aunt), Bonn (Jemima Bleek and family in), Germany (Jemima Bleek and family in Bonn), Hermann Bleek (Wilhelm Bleek's brother), new house (Jemima Bleek's news about)

1. By 1890 the Bleeks were living in Germany, Jemima having moved there with the children in 1884. 2. Hermann Bleek is Wilhelm's brother. 3. Tante Bertha is Haeckel's aunt Bertha Sethe.