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| Letter Reference | Smuts A1/202/100 |
| Archive | National Archives Repository, Pretoria |
| Epistolary Type | Telegram |
| Letter Date | 15 May 1917 |
| Address From | London |
| Address To | Savoy Hotel, The Strand, Westminster, London |
| Who To | Jan Smuts |
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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 Jan Smuts, 15 May 1917, National Archives Repository, 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 telegram, which is part of its Special Collections. The date of this telegram and the addresses it was sent to and from are provided by its official stamps.
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London
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To General Smuts Savoy Hotel
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Your speech was fine
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Olive Schreiner Betty Molteno
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Notation
Smuts made a number of speches at the Savoy, with that on 15 May concerned with a Commonwealth of Nations; the more infamous one was 27 May 1917, when he used the term apartheid in a speech proposing separation and separate development on grounds of race; referring to the speech on 15 May as 'fine' implies faint praise.
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