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| Letter Reference | MacFarlane-Muirhead/13 |
| Archive | MacFarlane Collection |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 14 May 1897 |
| Address From | 7 Rue Lemâitre, Puteaux, Paris, France |
| Address To | c/o Ed Carpenter, Millthorpe, Holmesfield, Sheffield, Yorkshire |
| Who To | Robert Franklin ('Bob') Muirhead |
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The manuscript of this letter by Olive Schreiner belongs to the Archive referenced above; its ownership of the original should be acknowledged by referencing the letter as indicated: Copyright transcription: © Olive Schreiner Letters Project. This transcription can be freely used as long as copyright is acknowledged and it is referenced using the following citation: ‘Olive Schreiner to Robert Franklin ('Bob') Muirhead, 14 May 1897, MacFarlane Collection, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
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The Project is grateful to Mrs Hazel MacFarlane for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter to Bob Muirhead, which is part of the MacFarlane family collection of Muirhead Papers, Special Collections, University of Glasgow Library. The address this letter was sent to is provided by an attached envelope.
1: 7 rue Lemâitre
2: Puteaux
3: Seine
4:
5: May 14 / 97
6:
7: My dear Bob
8:
9: Edward sent me your letter.
10:
11: I hope all unreadable will go well with you both, dear lad. That is
12: all I can say. I do wish I could see you. I suppose it would be quite
13: impossible for you to run over to Paris for a few days when you are in
14: London? If you could come & we could have a couple of long talks I
15: should be very very glad. I am staying at the above address for a
16: month. Do come to Paris if you can Bob. We are about a mile ^& a half^
17: beyond the Champs Elysees; have taken rooms in a tiny cottage in the
18: same garden in which my friend Nelly Rielly & her husband liv ^have
19: their little house^, & it is very sweet & quiet, not at all like being
20: in Paris. Do drop me a line or send me a wire to 7 Rue Lemâitre
21: Puteaux
22: Seine
23: France
24: if you are able to come. I do want to see you so much Bob.
25:
26: I hope I shall see your wife & Waldo some day.
27: Yours ever
28: Olive
29:
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