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| Letter Reference | Smuts A1/187/89 |
| Archive | National Archives Repository, Pretoria |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | August 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, August 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. The month and year have been written on this letter in an unknown hand. The end of the letter appears to be missing.
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Dear Isie
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I was so glad to get the joyful news you were better & going to your
4: home.
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I meant to leave for Johannesburg on the 15th (next of this month, but
7: I have got my chest bad since I moved into our little cottage which
8: doesn’t suit me as we get no sun in the bed room, & its damp. I must
9: put off going till I’m better. I’m going to sleep in the dining
10: room & hope I shall be able to leave about the 20th. I got your
11: husbands kind wire saying the Rev Meiring would receive me as a guest.
12: Thank him very much: it will be so nice to be there, an not at a jingo
13: boarding house. I will wire to him when I am leaving. What a terrible
14: thing a body is when it drags one down so. Its months now since I put
15: pen to paper except to write a few notes, & to take those notes in
16: court.
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Cron wrote answering your husbands questions as to Commandant Malan.
19: We hear he is out on bail in Cradock now. When he was here I was only
20: allowed to see him for 15 minutes, & with soldiers at the window, many
21: people could not even get a pass to see him for a minute. I hope you
22: will soon get quite strong now you are at home. I don’t fancy I
23: shall be able to stay more than one day at Pretoria, & we have so much
24: to talk about. I will come straight to ^you if you will have me. Please
25: thank Mr & Mrs Meiring very much for asking me.^ [page/s missing]
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