"'Closer Union', speak out for natives" Read the full letter
| Letter Reference | Smuts A1/189/78 |
| Archive | National Archives Repository, Pretoria |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 24 May 1906 |
| Address From | Haddon Hall, Tamboer’s Kloof, Gardens, Cape Town, Western Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Isie Smuts nee Krige |
| 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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Hadden Hall
2 Tamboer’s Kloof
3 May 24th 1906
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5 Dear Isie
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7 I got here yesterday & found your letter here sent on from Hanover.
8Thank you so much for it. It was a cheering thing to find here, for it
9is pouring with rain & very damp & I am so afraid I may have to return
10to Hanover & spend the three months Parliament sits alone there
11without him ^Cron.^ I think this will be a very busy scession sitting.
12Some folk seem to feel sure Jameson will have to go out. I hope not.
13If the SA Party comes in on such a small majority it will have to play
14down to the capitalistic & other elements.
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16 // I shall certainly go to Stellenbosch if I stay here, to see your
17dear mother. I shall go to see Daisy the first fine day. I wish you &
18the children were down here too. I hope when you come down next you
19will meet my dear friend Anna Purcell She is a woman, I think, after
20your own heart.
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22 Good bye. My husband would send hearty greetings to you both but he is
23out.
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25 Olive
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27 Address to my Husbands care House of Parliament, & he will send the
28letter on to me if by any chance I should have left.
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2 Tamboer’s Kloof
3 May 24th 1906
4
5 Dear Isie
6
7 I got here yesterday & found your letter here sent on from Hanover.
8Thank you so much for it. It was a cheering thing to find here, for it
9is pouring with rain & very damp & I am so afraid I may have to return
10to Hanover & spend the three months Parliament sits alone there
11without him ^Cron.^ I think this will be a very busy scession sitting.
12Some folk seem to feel sure Jameson will have to go out. I hope not.
13If the SA Party comes in on such a small majority it will have to play
14down to the capitalistic & other elements.
15
16 // I shall certainly go to Stellenbosch if I stay here, to see your
17dear mother. I shall go to see Daisy the first fine day. I wish you &
18the children were down here too. I hope when you come down next you
19will meet my dear friend Anna Purcell She is a woman, I think, after
20your own heart.
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22 Good bye. My husband would send hearty greetings to you both but he is
23out.
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25 Olive
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27 Address to my Husbands care House of Parliament, & he will send the
28letter on to me if by any chance I should have left.
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