Olive Schreiner Letters Online

Letter Reference	Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/25
Archive	National English Literary Museum, Grahamstown
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	5 December 1919
Address From	9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London
Address To
Who To	Minnie or Mimmie Murray nee Parkes
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1:  9 Porchester Place
2:  Edgeware Rd
3:  Dec 5th 1919
4: 
5:  Dear, dear Friend
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7:  My niece Lyndall Schreiner has married a Colonel Gregg who is in
8:  command of a Balt. at a place called Tabora in ^Late^ German East Africa.
9:  I have an idea that it was near there that our beloved Haldane fell.
10:  If it was so & his grave is there, anywhere in that part, I know she
11:  would go to see it & see that it is kepp kept in order. I should love
12:  to think of her standing beside his resting place. Please tell me if I
13:  am right. When is our Andre to be married? Do one of you write & give
14:  me a little news about you all? I suppose Bobbie & Kathie are still in
15:  Cape Town.
16: 
17:  I think so often of you all, but I am not able to write much: the
18:  continual attacks of angina pectoris prevent one from walking & that
19:  weakens one.
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21:  My dear friend Alice Greene is dying slowly of cancer. She does not
22:  know it is cancer, they have kept that from her, but she knows she
23:  can't get well. She is staying in a little cottage in Cornwall, & Miss
24:  Molteno & her two sisters are staying with her & caring for. It is so
25:  hard for me that I cannot get down to see her once again. She is a
26:  splendid woman. My niece only met Colonel Gregg on board ship, & they
27:  were married the day after they got to Cape Town. All of them seem to
28:  like him very much & she is blissfully happy. I am only sorry she has
29:  to go so far away from her mother. I know you will have been sorry to
30:  hear of dear Dr Purcell's death. It is a terrible blow to Anna who
31:  loved him so. I've got such tragic beautiful letters from her.
32: 
33:  Good bye dear friend.
34:  My love to you all
35:  Olive
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