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| Letter Reference | Smuts A1/194/10/57 |
| Archive | National Archives Repository, Pretoria |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 18 August 1912 |
| 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, 18 August 1912, 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.
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De Aar
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Aug 18th 1912
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Isie dear,
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I was glad to get your good news this morning. I know how your heart
7: will rejoice over your little son. It is so good it is a little son. I
8: have seen so much of the tragidy of people’s having an only son,
9: even in my own family, that I am always so rejoiced when there is a
10: second son. I expect the girls are delighted with him. I am so glad
11: you & he are both doing so well. I expect his father is delighted.
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Thank you for the beautiful box of fruit & things which I got
14: yesterday. The nartjes are just splendid & I’m going to cook some of
15: the macaroni tomorrow & have the ginger to-day. I can never eat meat
16: now, so I have to live on rice & fruit & such safe things, so the
17: macaroni will be very nice. I wish I could come & see you dear, but
18: the only time I could come is in the winter & then I must be here with
19: my husband, as I have to be away in Jan & Feb. I hope you will be down
20: to Parliament again. I am trying to have one room for myself for these
21: two months as I can’t bear staying at an hotel. I shall do my
22: cooking on a little spirit lamp for myself.
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Do come down & let me see the new little Jannie.
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Good bye. May your little son be a great joy to you always
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Olive
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