To: Jemima C Lloyd (21 November 1862)

To: Jemima C Lloyd (21 November 1862)

Correspondence

A letter from Wilhelm Bleek to Jemima Lloyd, sent in Cape Town and dated 21 November 1862 (7 am). Wilhelm is happy and excited at the prospect of their wedding the following day and his doubts have departed. He has written Uncle Marmaduke a letter that may puzzle Jemima given his comments about her uncle. He explains that "revengefulness" isn't in his character; however, her uncles' behaviour did destroy his trust in their "fitness". He thinks it was the solicitors more than her uncles who tried to control her affairs and exceded her uncles' instructions. He does believe that her uncle's distrust of him influenced the solicitors though. In the latter part of the letter Wilhelm asks various questions of Jemima pertaining to the legal documents and wedding arrangements.

21 November 1862

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1. Jemima's uncles Marmaduke Jeffreys and Thomas Byron, who held her Power of Attorney until her marriage, engaged solicitors to draw up her marriage settlement [see JL to WB 15 November 1862 [?] C8.28].