To: Frances Lloyd (14 November 1862)

To: Frances Lloyd (14 November 1862)

Correspondence

A letter from Wilhelm Bleek to Frances (Fanny) Lloyd, sent from Cape Town on 14 November 1862. Wilhelm announces Jemima's safe arrival in the Cape. He writes of their joy, tempered only by the absence of "their" sisters. He describes how he and Lucy hurried to the jetty and sailed to the Mail steamer, where they found Jemima "flurried and excited", but, to Wilhelm, "better looking ... and more handsome". Though her nerves and head are "very poor", he hopes quiet life at home will restore her health soon. Their house in New Street will be ready for moving into the following week, thanks largely to Lucy, without whom he would have been lost. He has hired the Waldensian's former cook and his wife as servants. He closes off to arrange legal and other matters.

14 November 1862

Wilhelm Bleek (letter to Fanny Lloyd 14 November 1862), and more handsome" (legal and other arrangements), Frances Lloyd (Fanny), Jemima Lloyd ("Jemmie"), "not strong" (Wilhelm Bleek finds her "better looking ... grown stouter), and more handsome" (health will improve once settled in her home), Lucy Lloyd ("Loui"), letter (from Wilhelm Bleek to Fanny Lloyd 14 November 1862), ill health (Jemima Lloyd's head and nerves "very poor"), "not strong" (Jemima Lloyd's will improve once peacefully settled in home), sisters (Jemima Lloyd's call each other "brothers"), brothers (Lloyd sisters refer to each other as), servants (taken on for New Street house), house (in New Street)

1. The servant Wilhelm hired, the "American Negro"former first cook on the Waldensian, is Tom, referred to in many of Wilhelm's and Jemima's letters after her arrival in the Cape before their wedding. [See C6.7.]