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| Letter Reference | Smuts A1/187/91 |
| Archive | National Archives Repository, Pretoria |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Sunday August 1902 |
| Address From | Johannesburg, Transvaal |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Isie Smuts nee Krige |
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| 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. The month and year have been written on this letter in an unknown hand. The place this letter was sent from is supplied by content.
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Sunday night
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3 Dear Isie
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5 It was a bitter disappointment to me not to be able to come over this
6morning I was so knocked up I couldn’t come, & it would have been no
7use if I had so staid in bed till this afternoon. I am going to try &
8get my work, sorting out bits of photographs & books &c alone on
9Tuesday & to come over on Wednesday. I am so sorry to think perhaps
10some of you took all the trouble to come to the station to meet me. I
11am longing so to be with you. Johannesburg is always very sad to me.
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13 I will wire you my plans & then I will realy come whatever happens. I
14hope you are better.
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16 Olive
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3 Dear Isie
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5 It was a bitter disappointment to me not to be able to come over this
6morning I was so knocked up I couldn’t come, & it would have been no
7use if I had so staid in bed till this afternoon. I am going to try &
8get my work, sorting out bits of photographs & books &c alone on
9Tuesday & to come over on Wednesday. I am so sorry to think perhaps
10some of you took all the trouble to come to the station to meet me. I
11am longing so to be with you. Johannesburg is always very sad to me.
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13 I will wire you my plans & then I will realy come whatever happens. I
14hope you are better.
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16 Olive
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