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| Letter Reference | Smuts A1/187/83 |
| Archive | National Archives Repository, Pretoria |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 4 June 1902 |
| Address From | Hanover, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Jan Smuts |
| Other Versions | |
| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| 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.
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Hanover
2 Jun 4 / 02
3
4 Dear Friend
5
6 I hear you are about in this part of the world & I am longing to see
7you once more. I heard from Isie yesterday & I know it would be a joy
8to her if I could tell her I had seen you & you were looking strong &
9well.
10
11 I am sending this line to Major White at the station & asking him very
12kindly to forward it to you if he knows where you are. I would come to
13the station or anywhere where I was allowed just to shake hands with
14you: but if you could come here for a day ^at our house^ it would be a
15great joy.
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17 Yours Your little son will be with you no more when you & Isie form
18your home again: but it be such joy to me to know you are together
19again.
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21 My husband joins me in warmest & most heartfelt greetings
22
23 Yours ever
24 Olive Schreiner
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2 Jun 4 / 02
3
4 Dear Friend
5
6 I hear you are about in this part of the world & I am longing to see
7you once more. I heard from Isie yesterday & I know it would be a joy
8to her if I could tell her I had seen you & you were looking strong &
9well.
10
11 I am sending this line to Major White at the station & asking him very
12kindly to forward it to you if he knows where you are. I would come to
13the station or anywhere where I was allowed just to shake hands with
14you: but if you could come here for a day ^at our house^ it would be a
15great joy.
16
17 Yours Your little son will be with you no more when you & Isie form
18your home again: but it be such joy to me to know you are together
19again.
20
21 My husband joins me in warmest & most heartfelt greetings
22
23 Yours ever
24 Olive Schreiner
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Notation
Written on this letter in an unknown hand is: "Forwarded Hanover Road 6.6.02 GD White: Major: 3rd unreadable Guards Commandant", and attached to the letter is a memorandum from Major White to the Chief Censor asking for Schreiner's letter to be sent on to General Smuts.
Written on this letter in an unknown hand is: "Forwarded Hanover Road 6.6.02 GD White: Major: 3rd unreadable Guards Commandant", and attached to the letter is a memorandum from Major White to the Chief Censor asking for Schreiner's letter to be sent on to General Smuts.