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| Letter Reference | T120 (M722): W.T. Stead Papers/64- pages 247-8 |
| Archive | National Archives Depot, Pretoria |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date |
After Start: January 1896
; Before End: February 1896 |
| Address From | Kimberley, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | William Thomas Stead |
| Other Versions | Rive 1987: 266 |
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 William Thomas Stead, January 1896, National Archives Depot, Pretoria, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
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The Project is grateful to the National Archives Repository, Pretoria, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Micofilm Collections.
1: Dear Friend
2:
3: I send you another letter from the same minister (a man whom you would
4: greatly love & trust if you knew him) which will help to show you what
5: the feeling of earnest thinking English men, who take no active share
6: in political life, & have there fore nothing personal to gain or lose
7: think in this matter. Destroy the letter when read. I do hope you will
8: take a stand at least as wise & important ^justiceloving^ as that which
9: you took on the Kama case. The future of South Africa lies largely in
10: the ^hands of^ England of now; if the English public & the English
11: Government do not make it perfectly ^clear^ that they unrestrictedly &
12: entirely condemn the action of Rhodes, & do not take away the Charter
13: & remove Rhodes from all positions of trust there will never be rest &
14: trust of England in this country.
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16: Good bye, dear friend. Cron & I send our love to your son, he’s a fine
17: lad, & will make I believe a good sterling man.
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19: Olive Schreiner
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Notation
Stead’s article on Khama appeared in October 1895, while content refers to the wake of the Jameson Raid of December 1895-January 1896, and thus the provisional dating of this letter. The ‘other letter’ from a minister that Schreiner refers to is what was once enclosed with Schreiner’s 4 January 1896 letter to Stead (T120 (M722): W.T. Stead Papers/11- pages 74-5 & 249-250). Stead’s article is: W.T. Stead "Character Sketch. Khama, Chief of the Bamangwato" Review of Reviews October 1895 pp.302-17. Rive’s (1987) version omits part of this letter and is incorrect in minor ways.
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