1 Hanover
2 Monday.
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4 Dear Isie
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6 I was so glad to get your letter this morning. No my heart is not at
7rest about Boy Pienaar. He is still out on bail for £4.000 awaiting
8his trial. Van der Berg has not been tried yet, & the two Nieuwhouts
9are still serving their hard labour term at Kimberley. I am going down
10to Cape Town by the mail train next Tuesday & shall see General
11?Settle about them, & the governor, & if they are not released at once
12I shall write to the English papers. It is all very well for us to sit
13here happy & contented, but what of two perfectly innocent men who are
14doing hard labour, to whom every day seems a week!
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16 Did your husband get the cheque for £2 17s which I sent him in a
17separate envelope from my letter? I think Cron is safe to be returned
18to Parliament by this division, as the Africander Party have chosen
19him, & it does not seem likely the Jingoes will put up any man at all.
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21 I wish Daisy had been leaving a little sooner then we might have
22traveled down together from Hanover Rd. No I never, never want to see
23Pretoria again it’s a hateful place! You & your husband must come
24here & see us. The friends here would be just delighted to see you.
25It’s so nice & cool here in summer too: it would do you good. Are
26you feeling better, & getting a little fatter.
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28 Good bye, dear.
29 Love to you all
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