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| Letter Reference | Smuts A1/187/85 |
| Archive | National Archives Repository, Pretoria |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 17 June 1902 |
| Address From | Hanover, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Isie Smuts nee Krige |
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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 Isie Smuts nee Krige, 17 June 1902, 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.
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Hanover
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June 17 / 02
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Dear Isie,
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I find I shall have to go to Johannesburg to see if I cannot find any
7: traces of the things which were looted from my house, & also to look
8: through the charred remains which my brother-in-law had removed to see
9: if there are not bits of my MS &c. When will you be back in Pretoria.
10: I would like if possible to put off my going for a few days till you
11: were back so that I might spend a couple of days with you. Please
12: write & tell me when you will be there. I long to see you. Please let
13: me know how you are getting on after the operation.
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Yours lovingly
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Olive
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I have written to General Lyttleton himself, so I think I shall be
19: sure to get a pass.
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Notation
The 'bits of MS' refers to the manuscript, left in Johannesburg when Schreiner went to Karree Kloof in late August 1899, which was destroyed when her house was badly damaged by marauding troops during the South African War; parts of it were published in the US in 1899 in two articles on 'The woman question', and these eventually became Woman and Labour.
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