1^Private^
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3Middelburg
4Feb 19 / 93.
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6Dear Friend
7
8Thank you for your letter.
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10I shall be home by the 2nd week in May. Yes, I hope I shall often see
11you. I will explain to you why I acted as I did: There was a woman I
12was afraid I should talk against to you if I saw you. I can't bear to
13talk against anyone, yet if other people talk of them the thing I know
14or the opinion I have sometimes bursts out; so I find it better not to
15see people who talk of them. Don’t dis-cuss other women with me ever,
16except in their political or public capacities, & don't expect me to
17know all your women friends, because some women are such an anguish to
18me they almost break my heart. (This is all strictly private).
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20I should like to see your little girl.
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22My sister Ettie is out here again with all her family.
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24N.B. Do you know of any one who wants, or do you want yourself for
25news paper a first rate correspondent in South Africa? A man with a
26keen condensed, picturesque style of putting things; a fearless out
27spoken thinker on political questions? Don’t forget to answer this. I
28am anxious that a truer, more vivid, more impartial picture of South
29African men & things should be given to the English public, & have
30found the man who can do it. He is not a professional journalist; &
31only has bother to write on different political & social questions, as
32they moved him. My friendship for him began by my being struck by the
33stance he took on certain political questions, & by his artistic
34literary, style. You’ll not be sorry if you get him to send you a
35monthly letter on South African affairs, life, men & c. If you don’t
36want them do you know any one who does?
37
38Good bye dear friend
39Address still to –
40Matjesfontein
41Olive Schreiner
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43Thank God you’ve got off the ghost subject!!!
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