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Letter ReferenceFindlay Family A1199/B Documents: Box 7/3
ArchiveWilliam Cullen Library, Historical Papers, University of the Witwatersrand
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date9 October 1900
Address FromHanover, Northern Cape
Address To
Who ToHudson Findlay
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1:  Hanover
2:  Oct 9 / 0
3: 
4:  Dear Hud
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6:  I have kept a copy of the enclosed letter. When you have carefully
7:  read it if you are so good as to be willing to do it, post it
8:  registered to Dr Brown & get ?note of delivery, ^in England^ 4d I think
9:  I enclose 4d.
10: 
11:  If only I can get all my work out of their hand, & anything in writing
12:  from Brown Little & Co showing they will not be able to interfere with
13:  any American firm to whom I send sell this work, I shall have a little
14:  to live on. Of course if I were in America I could see the publisher,
15:  & a good American lawyer myself it could all be arranged at once.
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17:  I enclose Brown Little's last letter to me. The 5 years from the date
18:  of my agreement with Roberts Bros ends this November.
19: 
20:  Love to you, & all the dear folk at Lyndall
21:  Olive
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