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| Letter Reference | MacFarlane-Muirhead/24 |
| Archive | MacFarlane Collection |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date |
After Start: June 1914
; Before End: July 1914 |
| Address From | Hotel Augusta Victoria, Bad Nauheim, Germany |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Robert Franklin ('Bob') Muirhead |
| Other Versions | |
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 1914, MacFarlane Collection, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
Legend
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 stayed at the Hotel Augusta Victoria in Bad Nauheim from early June to early July 1914. This letter is written on printed headed notepaper. The start and end of the letter appear to be missing.
1: Hotel Augusta Victoria
2: Bad Nauheim
3:
4: [page/s missing] but as I don’t know any one in the whole country except one woman in
5: Bavaria & one in the north, it will be too lonely when my brother is
6: gone. As I get older I feel a curious clinging to human beings I
7: didn’t feel when I was young. Perhaps it is because I’ve been so
8: many years alone in the desert.
9:
10: Write to me here if you’ve time & inclination My permanent address is
11: c/o Standard Bank
12: 10 Clement’s Lane
13: Lombard Street
14: London.. I shall not be staying at Dr Corthorns when I go back.
15:
16: It was wonderfully good to see you Bob so utterly unchanged. My little
17: niece & my nephew both fell quite in love with you.
18:
19: I’d like to see a little more of you before I leave, but Glasgows a
20: long way off. Is there any nice quiet place near to Glasgow but out of
21: the smoke, where I could hire rooms or go to a little inn? [page/s missing]
22:
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