| List of Collections |
|---|
| Aletta | | Alfred Gillet Trust Archive | | Auckland Libraries | | Bodleian Libraries Special Collections | | Bristol Unwin | | British Library, London | | Carlisle Marshall | | Colby Lee | | Cory Library, Rhodes University | | Cullen Library, Historical Papers, University of Witwatersrand | | Delaware Lasner | | Free State Archives Depot | | Greene Family | | Hobhouse Trust | | Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin | | Humpherys Bedborough | | Johannesburg Public Library | | Library of Parliament Cape Town Hunt | | Library of Sommerville College, Oxford | | Liverpool Bruce Glasier | | LSE Passfield | | Lytton Family Papers | | Macfarlane-Muirhead Family | | McMaster Russell | | National Archives Depot, Pretoria | | National English Literary Museum, Grahamstown | | National Library of South Africa SCCS Extracts | | National Library of South Africa, Cape Town | | Newspapers | | Ronald Levine | | Sheffield City Libraries, Archives & Local Studies | | University College London | | University of Cape Town, Historical Manuscripts | | Unknown | | War Museum of the Boer Republics Bloemfontein Autograph Collection | | West Sussex Cobden Unwin | | Western Cape Archives | | Women’s Library Autograph Collection |
|
|
|---|
| Letter Reference | Smuts A1/195/49 |
| Archive | National Archives Repository, Pretoria |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 30 October 1913 |
| Address From | De Aar, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Isie Smuts nee Krige |
| 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 Isie Smuts nee Krige, 30 October 1913, National Archives Repository, Pretoria, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
Legend
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 Special Collections. The date has been written on this letter in an unknown hand. Schreiner was resident in De Aar from November 1907 until she left South Africa for Britain and Europe in December 1913, but with some fairly lengthy visits elsewhere over this time.
1:
Dear Isie
2:
3:
I was so touched by your thinking of me & sending me that lovely box
4: of fruit & things. Thank you dear. I am returning the box carriage
5: paid. I leave de Aar about the 20th for Cape Town & shall sail on the
6: 5th of December for Europe. I shall stay with a woman Dr friend of
7: mine in London for a short time, & then some friends of mine are going
8: to take me on to Italy to the Riviera. I may go later to Florence to
9: try that doctor Miss Hobhouse spoke of, but my plans are uncertain. I
10: shall be guided by what the heart specialists in London say. Later in
11: the summer I shall go to Nauheim which has done my brother Will’s
12: heart so much good.
13:
14:
In the spring I shall go back to London to see all my beloved friends
15: before I go to Newheim. Good bye dear. I can’t write more.
16:
17:
Love & thanks
18:
from
19:
Auntie Olive
20:
21:
22:
|
|
