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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/86
ArchiveNational English Literary Museum, Grahamstown
Epistolary TypePostcard
Letter Date11 January 1915
Address FromKensington Palace Mansions, De Vere Gardens, Kensington, London
Address ToPortlock, Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape
Who ToAndre Murray
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The Project is grateful to the National English Literary Museum (NELM) for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner postcard, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. The date of this postcard is provided by the postmark and the address it was sent to and the recipient are on its front. Schreiner was resident at Kensington Palace Mansions from late October 1914 to late July 1915.
1 Dear Andre,
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3 I hope all goes well with you. Send me a post card to say if you have
4news of your father if you have no time to write a letter. Be sure to
5address c/o Standard Bank, 10 Clements Lane, Lombard Street, as I am
6going on Monday to live at Hampstead in two rooms I have taken.
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8 Olive Schreiner
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