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| Letter Reference | Smuts A1/191/55 |
| Archive | National Archives Repository, Pretoria |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Thursday December 1908 |
| Address From | De Aar, 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, December 1908, National Archives Repository, Pretoria, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
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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.
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de Aar
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Thursday
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Dear Isie
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Thank you so much for the beautiful fruit. The custard apples
7: especially were a great treat. I had never tasted them before: they
8: are delicious.
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I went to the train & saw your husband & General Botha for a few
11: moments. I thought Onse Jannie looking very well. It was the first
12: time I had ever spoken to Botha though I shook hands with him once. I
13: quite understand now why the Purcell’s & all my other friends are so
14: fond of him. He has such a beautiful smile. I always believe there is
15: something deep down very good in the people whose smile is good: &
16: people however good they may otherwise look whose smile makes you
17: shrink from them I always mistrust. Your husband told me you would be
18: coming down soon. Do let me know when you pass that I may come down to
19: the station to see you & the children I hope you will get to know &
20: love my dear sweet friends Dr & Mrs. Purcell when you are down. I can
21: picture how happy the children will be when you go to spend a day with
22: them at their beautiful farm. I would have written long ago, but my
23: heart has been very bad. I have not been able to do anything the heat
24: is so great here. I fear I shall very soon have to go down to
25: Matjesfontein. It is hard to leave my husband alone in this miserable
26: place. But I must go where I am able to do a little writing.
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Good bye dear. "Alles ten besten"
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Your loving little
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Auntie Olive
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