1Matjesfontein
2June 19 / 92
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4Dear Friend
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6As I am writing letters this evening, & don’t know when I shall be in
7the mood again I’ll write you a few lines to thank for your letter. I
8hate letter writing more & more; it becomes almost a mental & physical
9impossibility to me. I wish I could have all my good English friends
10by my own little fire here, to talk to one by one instead of writing.
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12I can’t argue with you about all those subjects you raise, because I
13feel my books when they are published, will be the only answer I can
14make. If you don’t understand my standpoint then I’ll give it up!!!
15I’m sending you by this post a little tiny story on the relations of
16women with women which I think you’ll like. Tell me what you think of
17the view it takes.
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19I saw Mr Rhodes once when I was in town at a dinner party at Sir Henry
20Lochs. He came up to me & began ^to^ laughing at me about some dream, I
21had ^had. I^ didn't speak to him or ask him what he meant, but I guessed
22you'd been telling him my dream all upside down!!! & your letter which
23I got the next day showed me I was right: there was nothing ridiculous
24in the dream as I told it you. The thing has happened to me hundreds
25of times, to have the most marvellous dreams of which nothing at all
26comes. I don't agree with you at all that Mr Rhodes's falling from his
27fo horse was a fulfilment of my dream, & if it were would not prove
28your great point that “death casts its shadow before it”!
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30I think my letter writing is a failure this evening, I’m too stupid, &
31will get back to writing at my book, which makes such demands on my
32thoughts now I can’t do anything in any other direction.
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34Will you tell Garrett if you write to him how terribly sorry I am to
35hear of his illness. I shall be one who is glad to welcome him if he
36comes out here for a time.
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38Yours always,
39Olive Schreiner
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