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| Letter Reference | MacFarlane-Muirhead/14 |
| Archive | MacFarlane Collection |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | June 1897 |
| Address From | 31 Lower Belgrave Street, Chester Square, Westminster, London |
| Address To | |
| 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, June 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. Schreiner briefly lived at a number of addresses in Chester Square in June 1897.
1: 31 Lower Belgrave St
2: O W
3:
4: Dear Bob,
5:
6: Drop me a line some time if you feel you can. Give my love to your
7: wife, & the dear little Waldo. I wish I could have seen him. It would
8: have been a great joy to me; but I can’t come north. I’ve had two
9: big-wig specialists here, & they say my heart is broken down, so I
10: mustn’t go in a train if I can help it; so pe I’m saving my self
11: till I can go to Italy or Africa. Perhaps next week they’ll let me
12: go down by boat to Broadstairs or Margate for a time. It’s an awful
13: pity you aren’t down here now, perhaps you could have come to
14: Broadstairs, & we could have sat on the beach & seen one another.
15:
16: I hope all goes well with you dear old Laddie. Life is so short & it
17: hurries away so, we must just make every moment as beautiful as we can.
18:
19: Good bye, dear boy. Much love to you all
20: Olive
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