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Bleek responds defensively to Dr Ross' refutational letter to the editor. Bleek restates that he found the language and approach of Ross' report unthorough, ultimately unhelpful, and indicative of his inexperience as a medical professional. He feels that Ross is misconstruing his professional criticism as a personal attack and that Ross should value criticism. Bleek feels that proven medical practitioners can dispense with the fussiness of professional nomenclature once their expertise is publicly known and that Ross' premature aversion to specificity as an unestablished young professional is problematic.

Printed newsprint glued on paper

27/12/1864

One cut out column of newsprint text pasted onto a plus-sized A4 unlined sheet with visible warping. There is no title subsequently handwritten onto the mount/paper backing

A Victorian of an original article (no thematic title included in the cut out) by WHI Bleek. Published in Het Volksblad on Tuesday, December 27th, 1864. This one short column was Bleek's reply to Dr Ross' letter to the editor, denying Ross' interpretation of his (fair) criticism. The tone of Bleek's rebuttal is defensive. Dr William Henry Ross would be appointed as Surgeon Superintendent at Robben Island in 1884 (De Villiers, 1971: 85).