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National Library of South Africa, Cape Town: Special Collections at the NLSA provide one of the leading locations for archival papers across many periods, organisations and persons pertaining to the Cape area of South Africa. Its website provides some helpful information, including a non-searchable list of some of its manuscript collections. Accessing information about its manuscript holdings will however require visiting or a detailed email inquiry. Read more...

NLSAMSB386APurcell: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.8: [page/s missing], could have pained her, I might think it was that, but it can't be. Perhaps she is pained by my objecting to...; Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.9: My darling Anna, I think the meeting went off well. But I don't know why any one needed to say you wouldn't do as well as sec...; Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.11: Irene, Tuesday, Darling, General Hertzog spent last evening here He is a dear good old fellow; whether one sees eye to eye wi...; Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.12: July 31st 1910, My darling Anna, I am so glad to hear your beautiful, beautiful news. I hope the beloved little one when it c...; Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.13: Anna darling, I am sending you a little pamphlet Mrs Rhys David, a friend of mine has sent me as I know you are interested in...; Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.14: The Visitors' Room, Barkers, Kensington, Dec 22nd 1915, Dear Anna, I am waiting here for a friend, & am going to give the...; Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.15: Darling Anna , I am enclosing a little poem to you. Its the only really good thing I've seen written since upon the war. It s...; Anna Purcell MSB 386/2.18: My own darling Anna,, Oh if I could be with you. If I could be a little comfort & help to you! I cant think his dear face...; Anna Purcell MSB 386/2.19: March 24th 1920, My darling Anna, I can't wish you many happy returns of this day. It will be a sad one for you, & yet it...
NLSAMSC15JohnXMerriman: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/1: May 5 / 96, Dear Mr Merriman , Thank you for your letter. I should like to answer at length your interesting criticisms, but ...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/2: The Homestead , May 25 / 96, Dear Mr Merriman , Thank you for your letter. Your speech was without any doubt the most brillia...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/3: The Homestead, June 29 / 96, Dear Mr Merriman , I am very glad you liked my Bushman paper. I have never gone on with the lett...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/7: Sunday morning , Dear Mr Merriman , Thank you for your. There are a dozen things in it that I want to refer to. To-day I shal...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/6: Highstead, Rondebosch, Tuesday, Dear Mr Merriman , I got your note last night. It was very good of you & Mrs Merriman to ...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/4: Nov 21st 1897 , Dear Mr Merriman , If we could only get all the people to bear witness in court to what they know & tell ...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/8: [page/s missing], news of that ?meeting in another 50 years. It was our first, but not our last victory. The big fight will p...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/9: [page/s missing], committee at Home. I enclose a paper copied from one he sent me stating some of the things he had seen. He ...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1897:17: Grand Hotel , Alassio , Riviera , Italy , April 3rd 1897, Dear Mr Merriman , I have just got your letter of March 1st. I am i...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1897:57: The Homestead, Kimberley, Dec 5 / 97, Dear Mr Merriman , Yes, we must lose the case & pay costs & damages. But does t...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/5: The Homestead, , December 17 / 97, Dear Mr Merriman , I am as sick of the word progressive as you can be; as sick as a sheep...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1898:8: Feb 9 / 98, My dear Mr Merriman , I was indeed sorry to receive your letter which confirmed the bad news with regard to your ...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1899:113: Hell, March 17 / 99, Dear Mr Merriman , You will perceive from the superscription above that I am still in Johannesburg. I ha...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1899:477: Dear Mr Merriman , I wish I could feel as confident as you do about no war. I hope that you know more than I do; of course if...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1904:55: Hanover, Feb 13 / 04, Dear Mr Merriman, My Husband has just sent me up a note from the office "Merriman, ?Nevel, Sauer & ...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1904:73: Hanover, 22 Feb / 04, Dear Mr Merriman, I am glad to see you are so soon to have a seat, but you will be a terrible loss to u...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1905:76: Eastbergholt , Tambour's Kloof Rd, May 15th / 05, Dear Mr Merriman, No, it was not Mrs Van Heerden I inquired about but ?our ...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1905:199: Hanover, Oct 31st 1905, My dear Mr Merriman, It was rather strange that your letter should have come just when I was thinking...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1905:228: Hanover, Dec 19 / 05, Dear Mr Merriman, I was very glad to see from the papers some time ago that though South Africa was nea...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1906:12: Hanover, Jan 10th 1906, Dear Mr Merriman, I had planned to spend the 2nd at Stellenbosch & some friends had promised to d...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1906:99: The Hotel , de Aar , Sep 13th 1906., Dear Mr Merriman, I have not at present got Boswell's life of Johnson. I had it of cours...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1906:200: The Hotel , De Aar, Sep 1906, Dear Mr Merriman, I read your speech with great pleasure. Curious that people cant understand t...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1906:214: Matjesfontein, Nov 13th 1906, Dear Mr Merriman, I am just reading a book that fascinates & pleases me greatly - the lette...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1906:232: Dear Mr Merriman, Will you do me the favour of seeing that General Butler gets the enclosed note at once I don't know his mov...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1906:233: Wednesday night , Dear Mr Merriman, I have just had a great pleasure. Sir William Butler spent 24 hours with us. I have alway...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1907:16: Hanover , Feb 26th 1907, Dear Mr Merriman, I am so delighted that Solomon has not got in. it's the finest thing about the ele...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1907:91: Rossyvera , Norfolk Rd , Sea Point, Ju Aug 2nd 1907, My dear Mr Merriman, I was indeed very sorry that I was out when you cal...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1910:16: Rocklands , Beach Road , Sea Point, Feb 8th 1910, Dear Mrs Merriman, I hope you understood I was not able to call on you befo...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1910:151: De Aar, May 26th 1910, My dear Mr Merriman, I have just seen the notice in the paper of your mother's death. I hope you will ...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1910:507: c/o Haldane Murray , Portlock , nr Graaff Reinet, Dec 22nd 1910, Dear Mr Merriman, I am writing partly to send you & Mrs ...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1911:44: De Aar, Ap May 3rd 1911, Dear Mr Merriman, Thanks for your letter. I have not seen the article in the "Economist" you mention...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1911:48: De Aar, May 12 / 11 , Dear Mr Merriman, Pray don't trouble about the Economist. I thought you took it & might have it lyi...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:122: De Aar, July 2nd 1912, Dear Mr Merriman, It would be impossible for me to tell you the depression I felt when I heard Hertzog...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:132: De Aar, Aug 11th 1912, Dear Mr Merriman., Re. your letter. No, I do not take a sorrowful view of life generally; nor above al...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:164: de Aar, Oct 22nd 1912, Dear Mr Merriman, It's strange how often it happens that just when you are going to write to a friend ...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:191: De Aar, Novem 20th 1912, Dear Mr Merriman, Many thanks for the booklet. It is Interesting., I am leaving for Cape Town tomorr...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:207: De Aar, Sunday night , Dear Mr Merriman, Thank you very much for your letter. The woman question, as you know, lies so near t...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:208: Grand Hotel,, Muizenberg, Saturday night., Dear Mr Merriman, I hope you are feeling fit & strong for the cession It was n...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:209: Alexandra Hotel , Muizenberg, Tuesday 1912, Dear Mr Merriman, I wonder if you will think I am taking a great liberty if you a...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:210: Alexandra Hotel , Muizenberg, Monday, 1912, Dear Mr Merriman,, Thank you very sincerely for your letter. I hope to come in on...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:211: De Aar, Tues-day, Dear Mrs Merriman, Many thanks for your letter I have written for the price lists, We live largely on dried...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1913:71: De Aar, Wednesday., Dear Mr Merriman, I thought your speech on the Native Bill very fine, but oh if you could have seen your ...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1913:72: De Aar, Sunday, Dear Mr Merriman, Though I only posted my note to you this morning I must add a line to tell you how delighte...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1913:134: De Aar, July 20th 1913, Dear Mr Merriman, I have not answered your last interesting letters because I have been too ill to wr...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1913:150: Dear Mr Merriman, Yesterday afternoon came the sad news & at a quarter past two this morning I heard the train go past wi...; John X. Merriman MSC 15/1913:320: De Aar, Nov 16th 1913, Dear Mr Merriman, I was glad indeed to see your remarks on the Indians. Im It is not waving their litt...
NLSAMSC21JamesRoseInnes: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: James Rose Innes MSC 21/2/1895:33: The Homestead, Aug Sep 2nd 1895, Dear Mr Innes, Do come up. It would be of great benefit to the work we all have at heart: ev...; James Rose Innes MSC 21/2/1896:55: My dear Friend , What tidings are these that I hear of thee on every hand??? , Since I came out from England primed il with S...
NLSAMSC26APurcell: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.1: [page/s missing], 2, in I find him pocking about the room with a candle; I asked him what he was looking for. He said he was ...; Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.2: Thursday night , My darling Anna, Did you feel how I was loving you as I sat behind you at the meeting. I could have kissed y...; Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.4: De Aar, Nov 16th 1913, My darling Anna, I shall arrive in Cape Town on the evening of Friday the 21st if I am able to get my ...; Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.5: Dear Anna, Will you please send the enclosed to Cron. They are beginning to have Martial Law here, & often letters &c...; Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.6: Address c/o Standard Bank, 10 Clements Lane, Lombard St, London, Anna dear, I hope your are all having a happy Xmas. My love ...; Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.7: Nov 20th 1919, My darling darling Anna, Cron has just sent me your two letters to him. Oh if I could be with you, dear, that'...; Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.8: [page/s missing], & your husband had been able to meet her & some of my other friends I know you would have loved the...
NLSAMSC26Box14Chapman: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: Frederic Chapman MSC 26/14.1/1: Hotel du Park , Mentone, Dear Mr Chapman, My brother has forwarded me the enclosed. Would you not kindly make arrangements wi...
NLSAMSC26DollieRadford: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: Dollie Radford MSC 26/2.10.1: My dear Dolly Radford, Thank you for your beautiful little poem to me. I only found it last night in bed, because the last le...; Olive Schreiner: Dollie Radford MSC 26/2.10.2: New College, Eastbourne, Limited., Eastbourne, Thursday, Dear Dolly Radford, I shall be so glad to meet you. Could you come n...; Olive Schreiner: Dollie Radford MSC 26/2.10.3: 30 St Mary Abbott's Terrace , Kensington, Thursday, Dear Dollie Radford, I have wanted for so many years to see you. I can't ...; Olive Schreiner: Dollie Radford MSC 26/2.10.4: Hotel Augusta Victoria, Bad Nauheim , June 28th 1914, Dear Dolly, I wasnt able to see you when I was in London, I was too ill...
NLSAMSC26EBLloyd: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: E.B. Lloyd MSC 26/2.4.1: 30 St Mary Abbott's Terrace, Kensington , Friday, Dear Mr Lloyd, I know how busy you must be but I should like very much to m...; Olive Schreiner: E.B. Lloyd MSC 26/2.4.2: c/o Dr Parker , Llandrindod Wells, Wales, Friday, Dear Mr Lloyd, I have just got your letter. Had I heard about yours friends...; Olive Schreiner: E.B. Lloyd MSC 26/2.4.3: Alexi, 31 The Park, Hampstead , Thursday, Dear Mr Lloyd, I wrote to you to the Hampstead address Edward Carpenter gave me to ...; Olive Schreiner: E.B. Lloyd MSC 26/2.4.4: Alexi, 31 The Park, Hampstead , Monday, Dear Mr Lloyd, Thank you for your letter. The reason I was so anxious to see you, apa...; Olive Schreiner: E.B. Lloyd MSC 26/2.4.5: I shall be in on Saturday or Sunday evening after 7 30 if that will do for the music? Let me know which time suits., OS, 31 T...; Olive Schreiner: E.B. Lloyd MSC 26/2.4.6: "Alexi", 31 The Park, Hampstead, Monday , My dear Mr Lloyd, I was indeed grieved last night when I came in & found you ha...; Olive Schreiner: E.B. Lloyd MSC 26/2.4.7: "Alexi", 31 The Park, Hampstead, Monday, Dear Mr Lloyd, DIf you & your friend could come about 5 on Saturday I should be ...
NLSAMSC26JessieRoseInnes: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.1: De Aar, July 6th 1909, Dear Jessie, Thank you for your letter. I have written to Mr Cross about Meredith. I would have writte...; Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.2: c/o Dr. Purcell, Muizenberg, Thursday, Dear Jessie,, I was too unwell to leave & have been staying here with my dear frie...; Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.3: c/o Dr. Purcell, York House, Muizenberg, Xmas Day., Dear Jessie, It was a great disappointment to me to hear from Anna Purcel...; Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.4: Matjesfontein, Jan. 3rd 1909 1910, My dear Jessie, I have been trying to make that milk you told me of but it doesn't come ri...; Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.5: Sunday morning , Darling Jessie, It was so good to see you. I am just going out to Sea Point to see if I can find a room ther...; Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.6: Rocklands, (Private Hotel), Sea Point, Jan 26th 1910, Dear Jessie, I've found such delightful quarters. On Sunday I was very ...; Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.7: 9 Porchester Place , Edgware Rd, London W, New Year's Day 1920, A happy new year to you, dear. I've never had a word of news ...; Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.8: 9 Porchester Place , Edgware Rd., March 28th 1920, Dear Jessie, I know you are feeling anxious about our Dorothy. I have writ...; Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.9: 9 Porchester Place , Edgware Rd., April 26th 1920, Dear Jessie,, I was so glad to get a letter from Dorothy yesterday, & ...; Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.10: Oak Hall, Tramway Terminus, Wynburg, Thursday, Dear Jessie, I'm so glad to think you've come back again. I hope you've had a ...; Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.11: Friday, Dear Jessie, Just a word to tell you how I enjoyed my stay with you, & how much your kindness touched me. As one ...
NLSAMSC26JohnMaryBrown: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.1: Cockburn Hotel, Edinburgh, Saturday Morning, My dear Dr. Brown, Thanks for letter & the information. It makes the temptat...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.2: New College, Eastbourne, May 5th 1881, My dear Dr. Brown,, You see I have followed your advice for the second-time. Here I am...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.3: I'm sending you a pamphlet on 'Sex & Socialism" by Professor Pearson. Tell me what you think of it? It's so beautiful &...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.4: Pisa, Italy, Sunday night, Have been meaning to write for so long. Left Alassio today, & am on my way to Venice. Have jus...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.5A: Will you, please, send to Robert Brothers, the large full face photo you have? It's the only copy. They'll send it back all r...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.6: I have almost given up writing letters at all now I'm so busy. I'm going to send you the Prelude to one of my stories to read...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.7: Wagenaar's Kraal, Three Sisters, Mar April 5th 1900, Dear Mrs Brown,, I got a paper from Cron last week with the Padiham post...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.8: Hanover, Feb 24 / 01, Dear Mrs Brown, I hope you are feeling stronger. With the coming of the spring in England one always fe...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.10: My darling Friend, Thank you for the papers. Of course I don't want their sentence shortened, they are a disgrace to all Sout...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.11: Xmas morning, My darling Friend, How beautifully you timed your Xmas greeting. It got here to Hanover just a couple of hours ...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.12: Hanover, Feb 10 / 03, Now I wonder, my dear friend, what you are doing just now today in Scotland! I am thinking of you so co...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.13: Sunday morning, Feb 22 / 03, Dear Friend, I am thinking much of you. Have you settled for good at 20 ?Warrender Park Crescent...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.14: Hanover, Oct 14 / 03, My very dear Friends,, I wonder if you have gone abroad to Italy now. I wonder how you are I want so to...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.15: Monday, Dear Mary,, I hope you are getting good news of Rays little one. Alice did not mention her in her last to me so I exp...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.16: Hotel "De Aar", De Aar, Sep 14th 1906, C.C., Dear Friend, Thank you for your letter., I've written to Merriman & Will abo...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.17: De Aar, Oct 15 / 07, My darling Friend, Thank you for your letter. I am glad of its news., Its my favourite old spot up there...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.18: Oct 31 /10, Dear Julie, I have been out today to see a poor man who is very lit ill with liver & heart. He was tapped in ...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.19: June 4th 1920, London, Dear J.B. , How goes the world with you? I've not seen Ray again. Alice Corthorn tells me she's in the...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.23: Private, I'm writing a thing on closer Union. If no one else will speak out for the natives I must. When done it will be publ...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.24: ... a nephew of Judge ?Markanin who is a great friend of Sir James Innes & of Merriman., Africa ?would, them much , Yours...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.26A: I'm leaving this for my beloved Switzerland land again on Monday. My address will be , Hotel Post, Aen Steg, Switzerland, Aen...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.26B: I am in Paris. I hoped to be able to finish my nursing course here, but I find my want of good knowledge of French will stand...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.26C: Bret Harte is Bret Harte. Letter is lovely. , Do you know any one who would care to send boys to Ed Carpenter's school. , Mui...; Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.26E: I know if you treated me rightly you would never write to me. But I long so for one of your beautiful letters. I am well I am...
NLSAMSC26JTLloyd: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: J.T. Lloyd MSC 26/2.5.1: Matjesfontein , Oct 29 / 92, Dear Mr Lloyd , Thank you very much for the lecture you sent me. Need I tell you that I valued i...; Olive Schreiner: J.T. Lloyd MSC 26/2.5.2: [page/s missing], One point he & I are always having great arguments about: he, like Grant Allen & others, thinks it ...
NLSAMSC26KallenbachGandhi: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.1: Alexandra Hotel, Muizenberg, Tuesd, Dear Mr Kallenbach, Thank you much for your letter I hope if ever you or Mr Gandi pass de...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.2: Telephone, 3350, 3300Western, 30 St Mary Abbott's Terrace, Kensington, London W., Saturday, My dear Mr Ghandi, I have at last...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.3: 30 St Mary Abbott's Terrace, Kensington, Wednesday, Dear Mr Callenbach, Ive not written to you because I've been too tired &...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.4: Bay View, West Parade, Hythe, Kent, Oct 2nd 1914, Dear Mr Kallenbach, Thank you for your letter I wrote two letters to you, b...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.5: The Windsor,, Lancaster Gate,, London, Dear Mr Callenbach, Thank you for your kind note I am coming to see you some afternoon...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.6: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I am so sorry I did not know Mr Gandhi was ...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.7: I should like to come & see you all tomorrow Could you call for me here at 5 o'clock. Telephone if it is not convenient., ...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.8: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I wonder if you got my note yesterday the o...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.9: Monday, Dear Mr Kallenbach, I was sorry you did not come to Miss Hobhouse's yesterday. I was glad to see Mr Gandhi looking mu...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.10: Dear Mr Kallenbach, I am still in bed. I'm too tired to go this morning as I did not sleep at all last night I have still hea...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.11: Kensington Palace Mansions,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, The Would you do me a great favour I left an old cloak ...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.12: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I wanted to be up & ask you to go to Ha...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.13: Kensington Palace Mansions, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I am so very sorry you can't get to India to your friend...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.14: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Monday night, Dear Mr Kallenbach, I am enclosing one of those s...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.15: Thank you, I am much much better since I got back., My little niece from Africa gave me this letter for you from Ruth Alexand...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.16: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Sunday, Have you engagements for tomorrow? Or could you call he...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.17: Dear Mr Kallenbach, Thank you so much I've no one to get things for me. I feel more ill than I've ever felt since I left Afri...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.18: Monday, Dear Mr Kallenbach, Thank you for your note I'm glad all goes so well with you. I am going away for some days to the ...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.19: Dear Mr Kallenbach, If you could come this evening about 8, I should like to get up & sit in the drawing & have a tal...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.20: Dear Mr Kallenbach, I am not well enough to get up this morning I may try this afternoon Would you get me, if you have time h...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.21: I am not taking anything but milk thankyou since Tuesday I think I have pneumonia in the left lung as well as my heart there ...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.22: If I am not better tomorrow I shall have to send for a nurse. Could you buy me about 6d worth of bananas. But don't trouble t...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.23: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Thank you very much indeed. No there's nothing I need. I've gon...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.24: Dear Mr K, Many thanks I don't need any thing Enclose cheque for £1-0-0 toward pay for the things you got me. I am getti...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.25: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I hope you will understand my having spoken...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.26: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, Thank you for the fine chocolate & your...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.27: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I am so sorry I was out when you & Mr T...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.28: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I am so sorry I was out I am too ill to go ...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.29: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Sunday, Dear Mr Kallenbach, I have lost your address so I am se...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.30: May 3rd 1915, Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I have written to you twice t...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.31: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I hope all is going well with you. I certain...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.32: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I hope you are still well & happy in you...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.33: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, Thank you so much for the lovely flowers &...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.34: 30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, Kensington, London, Dec 2nd 1915, It is such a very long time since I heard any news of you. Did ...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.35: Glad to hear all goes so well with you. May the new year find you in good health & good spirits., OS, Kensington, London ...; Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.36: Dawson's Place Mansions, Pembridge Square, London W , Nov 7th 1916, Dear Mr Kallenbach, I am so glad to hear you are going to...
NLSAMSC26KatieFindlay: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.1: Colesberg, Aug 20th 1874, My dearest Katie!, I was very glad when your long silence was at last broken by the letter which I ...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.2: Colesberg, Feb 19th 1875, My dearest Katie!, I must write to thank you for the money you have so kindly lent me. It was very ...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.3: Ganna Hoek, April 15th 1875, My dearest Katie!, Your letter which I receive last week was most welcome to me though I can't t...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.4: Ganna Hoek, June 27th 1875, My dearest Katie, It is a bitterly cold evening & my hands are quite stiff with the cold but ...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.5: Ganna Hoek, July 23rd 1875 , My dearest Katie!, This being the evening of your birthday, I must not go to bed with out writin...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.6: Ganna Hoek, Nov 2nd 1875, My dear Katie!, I was indeed beginning to fancy that I should never hear of or from you again &...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.7: Ganna Hoek , April 5th 1876, My dear Katie!, You owe me ever so many letters, but then I should have written long ago to than...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.8: Rattel Hoek , Aug 13th 1876 , My dearest Katie!, Many thanks for your letter which I received last week. I am so glad to hear...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.9: Rattel Hoek, Jan. 27th 1877., My dear Katie!, I have to thank you for a letter, & to tell you of my safe return from my w...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.10: Seymour,, Feb. 4th 1878., My dear Katie!, It is so long since you last wrote to me that I can’t at all remember when it...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.11: Ratel Hoek, March 18 / 78, My dear Katie!, Many thanks for the letter which Mamma has just sent me. I was glad to see you had...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.12: Ratel Hoek, May 31st 1878., My dear Katie!, Many thanks for your letter. I thought you had almost forgotten me., I will send ...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.13: Ratel Hoek, Jan. 26 / 79., My dear Katie, I have not heard from your for a very long time, but I hope you will not be sorry o...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.14: Seymour, July 25 / 79, My dear Katie, I send you a likeness of Mamma which I have had taken. I think you will be glad to have...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.15: Lily Kloof, Sep. 12 / 79., My dear Katie, I was very glad to get your letter & have sent Mama’s on to her. I am onl...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.16: Lily Kloof, May 29 / 80, My dear Katie, I have let your last letter lie rather long unanswered but in truth I am very busy &...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.17: Lily Kloof, Jan. 27 / 80, My dear Katie, Many thanks for your letter & likenesses. It is very nice to be able to look at ...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.18: Lily Kloof, Oct. 14 / 80, My dear Katie, I have allowed your letter to remain rather long unanswered. In truth, it is very di...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.19: Lily Kloof, Nov 19 / 80., My dear Katie, You have not yet answered my last; but there is a good opportunity of posting; I’...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/1.14.20: Lilys Kloof, Jan 5 / 81., My dear Sister, I was glad when this afternoon’s post brought me a letter from you. Leading t...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.21: Grahamstown, Feb 26 / 81., My dear Katie!, I was most glad of your letter & cannot leave old Africa without a farewell wo...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.22: New College, Eastbourne, April 2nd 1881., My dear Katie, I hope the letter I sent you just before I sailed has reached you sa...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.23: New College, Aug. 15th 1881., My dear Katie, I have only time for a line. It is very long since I heard from you. I send you ...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.24: 7 St. Margaret’s Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex., Nov. 23rd 1882., My dear Katie, I was very glad to receive your le...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.25: Harpenden, England, Sep 28 / 88., Dear Hudson, I’ve been very glad to have such good news of you. I hope you will do ve...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.26: Mount Vernon, Cape Town, Dec 6 / 89, Dear Katie, Thank you so much for your kind letter. I should have answered it at once bu...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.27: Mount Vernon, Cape Town, My dear Katie, Many thanks for your letter, & for the cards which Mother sent over to me from Gr...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.28: Dear Sister Katie, I fear you will find me a very bad correspondent., I dislike letter writing so much, but I am often thinki...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.29: Matjesfontein, My dear Sister , I fear I am a very bad correspondent but I have so much writing to do that I hate to write a ...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.30: My dear old Sissie, , I value your gift to me so much it is so useful. Cron sends his love to you & all the girls. We ar...; Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.31: My dear Hudson , I was very glad to have that little peep at you & Fred. Dear old Fred I knew before, but you are a new p...
NLSAMSC26MarySauer: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.1: Matjesfontein, Friday night, My dear Mrs Sauer, I missed you very much when you went I never feel lonely except when I have h...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.2: Pine Grove, Hof Street, Gardens., Cape Town, Friday, My dear Mrs Sauer, Thank you for your letter. & for what you said ve...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.3: Matjesfontein, Xmas Day., Dear Mrs Sauer, I hope you are having a beautiful time with the children. I was so happy on the jou...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.4: Matjesfontein, Friday night, My dear Friend, I was so glad to get your letter. Dear of course you feel unfinished; we all fee...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.5: Matjesfontein, Friday, My dear Mrs Sauer, I told them to send you a wire to say I had gone., It is so delightful here. We can...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.6: My darling. I got your note this morning. The address is, Louie Ellis, 9 St Mary's Terrace, Paddington, London W., Send a per...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.7: Matjesfontein, M Tuesday, My darling, Perhaps I shall have to be in Worcester on the 19th to see my sister about something. W...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.8: Thanks melons splendid. Logan thanks., I'm going to Worcester Wednesday, return here Thursday evening. Hope you be in Worcest...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.9: Dear Mary , I am sorry I couldn't come to Worcester. I am working very hard to get a long article done that must be done by t...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.10: Matjesfontein, My dear Mary,, You don't write me nice letters & tell me all about yourself any more. I long to see you so...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.11: Dear Mary, A word in great hurry. I have got £106 for Peter Naude already, but £16 has to go for passage money. I m...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.12: Matjesfontein, My dear Mary, Thank you so much for writing to me. I was feeling so depressed this morning, such an unusual th...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.13: My dear Mary,, I don't know why I want to write to you tonight. Do you know its so nice to call you Mary, I've never had a fr...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.14: Dear Mary, You see what a broken reed I am to depend on! I am not going to Kimberley at all now & not coming to Town next...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.15: Monday, My dear Mary, Thank you so much It will be such a very great help to have that money for Naudé. It will be so sp...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.16: Matjesfontein, Dear Mary, I saw Mr Sauer this morning when he went past., I am coming down to Town. Again my nephew has chang...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.17: Wednesday, My dear Mary, I have been hoping, I would get out this evening to see you, now I see I can't. You don't know what ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.18: Pine Grove, Hof Street, Tuesday, It's raining so you won't come in today. I can't go out to Lady Loch, so I won't come out to...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.19: Darling Mary, I send you a few American reviews a publisher sent me this morning. Please send them on to my Mother in enclose...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.20: Matjesfontein , Wednesday night, My dear Mary,, I am asking a great favour of you. If you should be in town, could you call i...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.21: Dear Mary, I leave by tomorrow morning's train; get to town late at night. Don't know by what train I can get out to you., Th...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.22: Pine Grove, Hof Street, Saturday, Dear Mary,, You looked so tired some how. Darling I can't bear to think you are ever tired ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.23: Dear Mary,, I am just going down town; shall send the things with this to Mr Sauer's office I shall try every where to get th...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.24: 2 Sydenham Terrace, Hof Street, Gardens, Just got your letter, darling Mary. Am moving into Bertram House, that house at the ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.25: Thursday, My darling Mary,, Thank you for your letter, dear. I will tell Mrs Anderson you will be glad to see her when she co...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.26: Sunday night late, My darling Mary, It was good just to see you to-day. I hope you will like T.D. which I send you. I will bu...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.27: Wednesday, I am leaving this evening for Matjesfontein. I think I shall do more work there. I send you one tiny little story;...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.28: My darling Mary,, Dear one, do forgive me, I am so very, very, very, tired. I can't think how I made the mistake about Thursd...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.29: Dear Mary, Sorry I can't come. Got a touch of my old Italian malaria, that's why I was so stupid. I shall love every body &...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.30: Friday Morning, Dear Mary,, My dear old drop of fresh dew! I think your dress will come by the Dunnottar on Monday. See about...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.31: Saturday night, My dear Mary,, I'm going to come & see you on Monday if I can but I'm not sure I've told Mr Sauer about t...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.32: Darling Mary,, Did I make you sorry last night teasing you so! I am so "cussed" some times & must tease people, & yes...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.33: International , My darling Mary, Thou dost never come to see me. I shant be in Town only now. Will you & Mr Sauer come &...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.34: My dear Mary, I sent your dress & boots & packet in the portmanteau this morning. I took it down to the station mysel...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.35: 57 Grove Street, Saturday night, Dear Mary, I send you some letters about Naude which may interest you. Return please. I neve...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.36: 57 Grove Street, Friday, My dear Mary, What of Mr Sauer & M C???, I am wanting to know., Did you go to the ball last nigh...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.37: O'Callaghan's International Hotel, The Gardens , Cape Town, Sunday night, My darling Mary, I mean to try & come out on Tu...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.38: Saturday, Dear Mary, Wilt though do me a great favour? Send me a hat like Dorothys but bigger, & ?s rather, & some of...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.39: Matjesfontein , Dear Mary, I'm so glad you are coming Mr Logan say charge will be £1 per day for all included (except wi...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.40: Darling Mary,, I am so glad you came. I've never felt so near you before nor loved you so. Mary, you have to go through a tim...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.41: Matjesfontein , Thank you, Mary, for your sweet letter. I shall do what I can about the "Home." That evil is the thing which ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.42: Darling Mary,, Don't expect me on 14th. Am not coming., I hope your sister is quite well now. Wish I had seen her when she we...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.43: Tuesday , Cape Town., I'm here, dear. All the way down in the train last night I was looking forward to seeing you; & Mis...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.44: Thursday night , My darling Mary , Can I come early on Saturday morning to you & spend the morning & then go with you...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.45: Queen's Hotel , Frid Wednesday, Dear Mary,, I'm sitting here with the beautiful old sea making a noise just below my window. ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.46: Thursday, Dear Mary,, I was so dis-appointed not to be able to come to the lunch. I looked forward to it so. I had a bathe on...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.47: My darling old Mary, We had such a splendid day up the mountain yesterday. You were the old only person I wished was up there...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.48: Matjesfontein , Mary darling, I've many things to say. You didn't mind my leaving without coming to say good bye? I was so ti...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.49: Matjesfontein , My darling Mary, I don't know why I feel I must write to you this afternoon because I've got nothing to say. ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.50: Matjesfontein, Saturday, I'm all right. When I got back I had an awful sore throat so ?swelled I couldn't speak for some days...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.51: Sunday morning , Dear Mary,, I've just seen a notice in the Kimberley Independent that "a marriage has been arranged" between...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.52: Matjesfontein, April 27 / 92 , My darling Mary, I've nothing new to say to night, but I've had you so in my mind last night &...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.53: Matjesfontein, May 8 / 9., Dear old Mary, How I wish you were here this morning so beautiful & fresh after the five terri...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.54: Matjesfontein, Monday, Dear Mary, I hope the world goes well with you. I went to our place in the river bed this morning but ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.55: Saturday night , I'm going really to answer your letter. I cant tonight. I shall think of you when I'm lying in bed & wis...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.56: Matjesfontein, Th Wednesday, I've a long letter three sheets for you here, but I think I won't send it. I'm always writing le...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.57: Matjesfontein , Sep 25 / 92, My dear Mary,, Thank you for your letter. I'd been meaning to write any how - though I've no new...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.58: My own darling Mary, Did you misunderstand my letter? Dear one, it was just because I want so terribly that your visit should...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.59: Middleburg, Saturday, My darling Mary, It's a beautiful evening. I am just going off for my solitary walk across the plain, b...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.60: Middelburg, Monday, My darling Mary,, Write & tell me what you think about the going to England. Write to Mr Fuller about...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.61: New College , Eastbourne , Sunday, Dear Mary, I'm longing to see you. I shall go up to London tomorrow afternoon; my address ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.62: New College , Eastbourne , Dear, thanks for your sweet letter., I think you are wrong about the trains. The According to the ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.63: My darling Mary,, I think it would be better as you are going to Scotland & Paris is still so close to put off our going ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.64: My darling, Where are you doing when you leave Mrs Handcocks? Will you not come up here Mrs Walters terms are £3.3 a wee...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.65: Millthorpe, Holmsfield, nr Sheffield , Tuesday, My dear Mary,, Did you get my letters from St Leonards? I only got yours here...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.66: Millthorpe, Holmsfield, Nr Sheffield , Dear , Some one is going into Sheffield so I take the chance of writing. The post offi...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.67: Darling, Thanks so much for the ?drapers. ?There's very nice. I enclose the cheque., Thanks my darling so much for the chair....; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.68: Middelburg, Darling I've been very ill since I was here nearly dead! Oh, I long so to have you back in Africa. I heard today ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.69: My darling Mary,, It's beautiful to think you will so soon be here. You will hear when you arrive that I was married on the 2...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.70: Beach Hotel , East London , March 13 / 94, My darling Mary,, It's beautiful to think you are back in old Africa again. I hope...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.71: Molteno, Sunday evening, Darling Mary,, I got your letter yesterday morning at East London just before I started. Some very k...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.72: Krantz Plaats , P.O. Halesowen, April 12 / 94, My darling I am longing to see you Some day you must come here. I know a littl...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.73: My darling, I understand so perfectly what you mean. It's just because one wants to be so absolutely one with another humanbe...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.74: Krantz Plaats, Halesowen, Aug 1st , Darling Mary, I sent you a wire this morning about nurse. It suddenly struck me what you ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.75: The Homestead , Kimberley, Monday, Thanks so, dear. I've got a girl who comes in the morning for a couple of hours a day, &...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.76: Friday, Darling, I'm always thinking of you though I don't write. I wish you could have come up. I long very much to see you,...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.77: Darling, Please address this letter to Mrs Salt, I've forgotten her address., I got a long beautiful letter from dear Ed Carp...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.78: The Homestead , Kimberley , Sep Oct 5 / 94, Dear one, Did Mrs Salt send you Carpenter's new pamphlet on "Marriage"? If she di...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.79: Saturday, Darling Mary,, The sickness of stomach still goes on day & night so I can't write much to any one. I'd like to ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.80: My darling Mary, Thank you for your note. Things are going allright with us: but I shall be very glad of those books of Mrs G...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.81: The Homestead, Jan 2 / 94 , A Happy New Year to you, dear. I hope I shall see you before it is out. Thank you for sending the...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.82: Sunday morning, Darling Mary, Thermom. 106 in the shades, one's nearly melted & can't write, especially when one isn't so...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.83: Tuesday, Dear Mary, I have kept the enclosed letter two days not knowing whether to sa send it you are or not. I think I had ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.84: The Homestead, Feb 2 / 95, Darling Mary, I am still worrying about that Dr Watkins matter; better not mention me at all &...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.85: Thursday, My sweet old Mary, I send you a photograph of myself. I will send you one soon of Cron & myself sat taken toget...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.86: Thank you, my darling, for your sweet gift which came today. One of your little dresses I will put out in the basket to be th...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.87: The Homestead , March 15 / 95., Darling Mary, I am so disappointed Cron saw so little of you, & was not able to go up the...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.88: The Homestead, Mar April 1st 1895, Darling Mary, Thankyou for your sweet remembrance of my birthday., I was so disappointed n...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.89: The Homestead, April 17 / 95, Dear Mary, I am still all right. On Sunday night as I was driving my little servant girl home f...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.90: The Homestead, May 10th 1895, My darling Mary , Your sweet letter came to me yesterday. My dear one, I am so worn in mind &...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.91: May 28 / 95, My darling Mary , I am getting on all right & hope next week to be back at my work. That's all I want I don'...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.92: The Homestead , June 3rd 1895, My darling Mary, Thankyou so much for your letter., Do you know I was starting off with Cron t...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.93: Friday night , Dear, I was so sorry Dr Beck wouldn't let me see any one today. Can you come on Saturday morning? I am posting...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.93a: The Homestead, Saturday, Darling Mary, In unpacking my papers I've come across this note to you which I thought I had posted....; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.94: Saturday, My dear Mary, I was so disappointed that you didn't come yesterday afternoon. I expected you even in the morning as...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.95: The Homestead, Kimberley, July 1st 1895., Dear sweet old Mary, We got back at midday today, & I am glad to be here again,...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.96: Monday morning , Darling Mary , I send you a copy of the paper on the political situation: tell me freely what you think of i...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.97: Oct 14 / 95, Thankyou so much for your letter. I began really to feel anxious that I had no news of you., All's going very we...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.98: Commercial Hotel , Middelburg , Jan 10 / 95, Dear Mary , Thank you so much for the papers & the wire. Here we get our new...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.99: Middelburg, Ja Feb 6 / 96, Darling Mary , I don't know why I've been thinking so much of you the last days. Last night in the...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.100: The Homestead, Mar April 2 / 96, Thursday night nine o'clock , Darling , Your letter came late this evening, & at first I...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.101: Darling Mary , I wonder if you have gone to Johannesburg? I send you Mr Lloyds letter to serve as to let you know what he is ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.102: Darling , I would advise you not to take Dorothy to England at all but to send her to Miss Moltenos at Port Elizabeth. You kn...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.103: Yes, darling, I am very sorry for Mr Sauer. He is being deserted by the men whose cause he fought & who should have stood...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.104: Mrs Sauer, Cumnor, Kennilworth, nr Cape Town, How are you getting on, dear. I hope well. Send me just a word. I am very tired...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.105: The Homestead , June 30, July 1 / 96, Dear , I hope you are getting on nicely. You may think it very foolish, but I am feelin...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.106: Strictly Private. Is your arm quite strong? , My darling Mary , No, there has been nothing wrong with my womb, I am sure! Eac...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.107: Dear Mary, If you do decide not to send Dorothy to Miss Molteno but to take her to England a splendid idea has struck me. My ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.108: 19 Russell Rd , Kensington , Feb 11 / 97, Dear Mary, It was such a disappointment to me that you were gone when I came; we mu...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.109: Grand Hotel , Alassio, Riviera, Italy, April 3rd 1897, Darling Mary , I was so glad to get your letter. It was a misfortune t...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.110: 15 Gildridge Rd , Eastbourne , Aug 7 / 97, Dear Mary, I'm thinking of you all the time, since Jessie has told me of your cond...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.111: Hope Town, Sep 28 / 97, My sweet old Mary, I have only just received from London the letter you wrote me when I was there. I ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.112: The Homestead , Oct. 11 / 97, My darling Mary,, I am thinking of you so often. I wish you lived here where I could see you ev...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.113: The Homestead , Oct 19 / 97, Darling Mary, When exactly do you expect little Peter to come? In January? Don't forget to tell ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.114: Darling Mary , It was so sweet to see your face; you are much more beautiful than you've ever been before. I wish I had a pho...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.115: The Homestead , Dec 3 / 97, Darling Mary, I couldn't get out to see you again. I was so sorry Cron couldn't see you when he c...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.116: The Homestead , Dec 2nd 1897, Dear,, I am so glad our little Peter has arrived safely. I am very anxious for fuller news of y...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.117: The Homestead, Jan 9 / 97, I was do glad to get your letter card my darling, & also a letter from Mrs Innes telling me ho...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.118: My darling Mary, I was so glad to get you letter. All I begin to see is that little Paul Oliver will have to have a brother s...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.119: The Homestead, April 21st 1898, My darling Mary, I have just returned today from Johannesburg where we have spent a most deli...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.120: July 3rd 1898, My darling Mary, I would indeed be lovely if you could all come up. Can't you manage it. The weather is still ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.121: The Homestead , Aug 22nd 1898, Dear Mary, It's just possible I may be coming down in Cape Town soon, as the doctor has ordere...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.122: Primrose Terrace, Berea Estate , Johannesburg, Feb 15 / 99, Oh is it true Mary dear, that you are coming to Johannesburg next...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.123: Feb 24 / 99, My darling Mary, This is my wedding day. I have been married five years to-day., It was nice your letter came ju...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.124: 2 Primrose Terrace , Berea Estate , April 30 / 99, Darling Mary, Are you coming to Johannesburg next month. Mrs Chapin says y...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.125: Saturday, Dear Mary, I will come down on the train that leaves Beaufort on Tuesday Wednesday afternoon if I possibly can, am ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.126: Hanover , Oct 6 / 00, Darling Mary, Your husband & Merriman have made splendid speeches & been fighting grandly; but ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.127: Hanover, Sunday night, Dear Mary,, I shall certainly be leaving for Cape Town next Saturday night & before shall reach Ca...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.128: Hanover, Oct 20 / 02, Dear Mary, I've put off my going till Tuesday the 27th & shall arrive by the mail train on Wednesda...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.129: Hanover, Jan 31st 1903, Dear Mary, Thank you so much for the book. I would like to keep it till mine comes. Can I, or are you...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.130: Monday, May 17 / 03 , Darling Mary, Did you ever get the "Hearts of Men"? Cron is very ill, I have to feed & dress & ...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.131: c/o Mrs Kriel, Beaufort West, May 27 / 03, Dear Mary, Thankyou for your sweet letter. I am staying on here, & Cron went o...; Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.132: Sunday, Dear Mary, I shall leave this on Saturday afternoon getting to Cape Town Sunday morning, & shall leave again by M...
NLSAMSC26misc: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous MSC 26/2.25.1: Montague, Nov. 13. 89., This is a little desolate up-country town among the mts. Rocks, rocks, rocks piled all about me. I le...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous MSC 26/2.25.3: Matjesfontein, Please don't write to me again. Your misunderstanding mey friendship so entirely, pains me much. My feeling f...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous MSC 26/2.25.4: There is no royal road to peace, no short cut. "Thou shalt love thy neighbours as thyself "or fight",; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous MSC 26/2.25.5: Matjesfontein, Xmas, 1906, FROM: Olive, TO: Julie,
NLSAMSC26Moltke: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: Dorothy Moltke MSC 26/2.7/12: Continental Hotel, Berlin., Tuesday, Dear Dorothy,, I had a delightful journey yesterday, and came to the "Continental" where...
NLSAMSC26RuthAlexander: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.1: Dear Ruth Alexander, I shall have to go out into the suburbs on Tuesday & shall cl have to drive straight from there to M...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.2: c/o Haldane Murray E, Portlock, Nr Graaff-Reinet, Nov 30th 1910, Dear Ruth, The photo is splendid; only baby has not come out...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.3: Villa Flandre, Newland, June 11th 1912, Ruth dear, I don't know what you must have thought of me the other day I was half daz...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.4: De Aar, July 16th 1912, Ruth, dear, it seems so long since I heard how the world was going with you., Does the son flourish?, ...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.5: Le Grand Hotel et D'Alassio, Alassio, (Riviera, Italia), Alassio, le Feb 14th 1914, Dear Ruth, I think to-day of the sweet Va...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.6: Hotel Augusta Victoria, Bes: J. P. Aletter, Bad Nauheim, Darling Ruth, It was just lovely to get your letter. Yesterday Will ...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.7: Llandrindod Wells, Wales, Sunday., My dear Ruth, Yes send me any poems you write & I'll tell you really what I think of t...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.8: Llandrindod Wells, Wales, Aug 22nd 191015, Dear Ruth, I think Solly's picture is sweet: - bursting with intelligence & li...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.9: c/o Standard Bank , 10 Clements Lane , Lombard St, City., Sep 22nd 1917, My darling Ruth, The other day some one told me that...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.10: My darling Ruth, It is all so awful. Oh Ruth its not the fighting its the lying the injustice that is the worst of all & ...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.11: 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, Dec 3rd 1917, My darling Ruth, A happy new year to you & yours. You were not at all well ...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.12: Dec 14th 1918, My darling Ruth., I was glad to hear from you., You see the the last letter I had from you so many months ago ...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.13: Sep 6 Sep 7th 1919, 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, London N, Darling Ruth, it will be so beautiful if you come. It seems to ...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.14: Sunday, May 2nd 1920, My darling Ruth thanks you for your wire. I wanted so to send you one, but I was not able to go out, &...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.15: 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, May 12th 1920, My darling Ruth, It was a joy to get your letter from Madeira. When you went I...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.16: TTuesday, My darling Ruth, I hope you are having a lovely change & that your husband is rested. Give him my very kind reg...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.18: London Sep 30th 1916, Do tell me if there is any chance of your coming to England soon. If your mother comes I should like to...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.19: Dear, I hope you are feeling quite strong & yourself again. Is there no chance of your coming here. I am living in one li...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.20: I hope all goes well with you dear Kallenbach writes me he is leaving for the continent He asked after you. We are having rat...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.21: Thank you for the poem & your dear letter. I hope all you wish & plan will come to pass. Oh, Ruth, how beautiful it w...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.22: My darling Ruth, How does it come I never never hear from you. The last letter I had was when you sent me that lovely little ...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.23: Ruth dear, I feel so anxious. I never hear from you. Is your health better? all the children well? Drop me a line. I've never...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.24: I long for just a line from you Ruth, my darling child. I wrote to you but the letter was in the ship that was lost. Do tell ...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.25: Dear, I've just got a note from your brother saying he'll come & see me next week. I am looking forward so much to seeing...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.26: My lovely lovely jacket has come. Such a priceless comfort it will be to me. I am sailing on August the 13th but it's curious...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.27: Dear , I am so sorry you had to wait yesterday, my heart aches about it I thought I should be back before you came., I was su...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.28: I do hope Solly is better. I would not have dreamed of coming if I had known how ill he was. You have too much on your hands ...; Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.29: It was not a personal matter than made me leave the society, The women of the Cape Colony all women of the Cape Colony, These...
NLSAMSC26Solomon: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.1: 19 Adam Street, Portman Sq, Monday, Dear Mrs Solomon, My landlady has given me notice to leave at the end of the week I have ...; Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.2: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens,, W., Dear Mrs Solomon, Daisy mustnt trouble to come & fetch me....; Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.3: Dawson Place Mansions, Pembridge Sq, London W., Oct 5th 1916, Dear Mrs Solomon, I have not read Platjes book but will get it ...; Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.4: Alexi,, The Park,, Hampstead., Dawson Place Mansions, Pembridge Sq, Wednesday, Dear Mrs Solomon, Mr Hodgson was delighted wit...; Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.5: Dear Mrs Solomon, There is a little gathering at my doctors Dr Ettie Sayer , 35 Upper Brooke St, Park Lane. Where a man who h...; Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.6: Thank you, dear Mrs Solomon for your lovely gift. I love little soft shawls. I would long ago have been to see you if it wasn...; Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.7: Saturday, My dear Friend, Thank you for your beautiful beautiful gift. I will keep it to wear on board ship, in case I am abl...; Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.8: Dear Mrs Solomon, I have again mislaid your Tunbridge Wells address I am so anxious to know if all is going well with you. D ...; Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.9: Dear Mrs Solomon, Its so long since I had any news of you I am feeling quite anxious. Do drop me a post card. I hope you are ...
NLSAMSC27WillSchreiner: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: W.P. Schreiner MSC 27/287: Wagenaars Kraal , Three Sisters , March 26 / 00, Dear Laddy, Thank you for your note, received just now, & the letter of ...; W.P. Schreiner MSC 27/406: Dear Laddie, What is the true story about the policeman being shot at in your grounds? Is there any truth in it? , There is n...; W.P. Schreiner MSC 27/564: "Leeuwendal", off De Lorenz St , Cape Town, Dear Will, Could you see that the old man at the door of the Parliament House has...; W.P. Schreiner MSC 27/1350: De Aar, Oct 18th 1908, Dear Laddie, Thanks for your lines., I am a good bit distressed to hear from Miss Colenso that it appe...
NLSAMSC47EmmaEarp: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/1A: “Bright Hours and Happy Days be Thine”, “A small card, but a big wish. To...”, Oliver, “With ev...; E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/2: Alassio, Italy, For Emma, My dear Niece, I must write a line to tell you I have beepaperdamaged glad to hear of your happinpa...; E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/3: Roseneath, Harpenden, Herts, Sep 20 / 88, My dear Emma,, Thank you very much for the letter which I greatly valued. I liked s...; E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/4: The Sanatorium, Ceres, Sunday Night, My dear Emma, Thank you so very much for your kind letter. I should have answered it at ...; E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/5: Sunday , The Homestead, Kimberley, Dear Emma, Thankyou very much for the beautiful likenesses. They are very good. I do hope ...; E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/6: Dear Emma, Thank you so much for all the trouble you took getting me the rug. I like it very much. You lay yourself open to p...; E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/7: The Homestead, Dec 2nd 1897, Dear Charley, Only this morning has your wire & the sad news in the papers reached us. It se...; E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/8: The Homestead, Dec 6 / 97, My dear Emma, You are always in my mind. I am so anxious to get further news of you. No words can ...; E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/9: So glad of good news Much love to dear Emma. I hope the little son continues to thrive., Olive Schreiner, 4th 1898,; E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/10: Feb 28th 1906, My dear old Emma, A little bird has told me that I am to be made richer by another little nephew or niece in J...; E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/11: Dear Emma, Please send the enclosed card to Ely. I've forgotten her address., I hear your Olive is engaged. Is it true? I hop...; E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/12: 9 Porchester Place, Edgeware Rd, London W., Feb 20th, My darling Emma, Yesterday afternoon I heard that your boy had passed a...
OSletterstoC-SMSC26.2.16: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: NLSAOlive Schreiner: EL to C-S MSC 26/2.16/84: P.O Uitkyk, Thursday Morning, My husband,, , I had a bad day yesterday with the mierkats. Early in the morning I took them ...; NLSAOlive Schreiner: EL to C-S MSC 26/2.16/87: [page/s missing], …Miss Molteno & Miss Greene went out for a long walks this morning. When they came back & cam...; NLSAOlive Schreiner: EL to C-S MSC 26/2.16/148: Saturday Midday., Darling, I just got your letter., Darling don’t come to my sake. If you come to Hanover for business ...; NLSAOlive Schreiner: EL to C-S MSC 26/2.16/302: 2Hotel Milner, Matjesfontein, Dec. 1st 1906, Saturday morning., I have just got your letter. How like the weather seems here ...; NLSAOlive Schreiner: EL to C-S MSC 26/2.16/348: [page/s missing], 2, …I have just been reading a story that rather interested me as reminding me of the Boer of the low...
SCCSBROWNEXTRACT: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/510: …It is strange how slowly hope dies. If one can only accept and die gamely. After all it has been wonderfully beautiful...
SCCSExtractsMSC26.2.16: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/1: …There’s a very nice leader in the E. P. Herald on your letter. Fan says our letters have been a comfort to Will....; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/2: …My Cron, Won’t you please go this afternoon, my Sweet? It will comfort me so, your Olive. Do Chummie... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/3: …I must go to Mrs Cawood’s this afternoon because I fancy my being here gives old John trouble though he doesn’...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/4: …My own husband, I seem to want you more here than anywhere… Tell me if you are keeping well … Before I go ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/5: …As I remember Dordrecht it was a nice little town but I was only there a couple of months… I slept the whole of ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/6: …Dear, your little wife just wants to catch hold of your black curls. It’s strange how this place is connected wi...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/7: …We went to Drake’s yesterday. Old Wood wrote me a very nice letter giving me the morgen of land. If I’m al...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/8: …ill or killed… terrible day…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/10: …Hope good meeting… , Mill is sleeping behind the stove & I’ve lighted your lamp on your table to make ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/11: …Last night the stars were so beautiful. I seem not to have seen them so beautiful & with such meaning to you…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/12: … Oh my sweet Chummie, I hope it will be very nice seeing the bokkies (the trekbokke) & that you will be well all t...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/13: …I love you, my dear one. When I think of you my heart runs all out in little ripples of love to you… You’v...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/14: …I’m glad it was nice at Cradock & at dear old John’s (the farm)… Don’t trouble about bring...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/15: …Did I tell you the day or so after you went I went to see Mrs. Solly (in Kimberley). There were some lovely likenesses...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/18: …The little monkey is so sweet. This evening when he got cold & sleepy, he called & called to me, & when I ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/19: …My own husband, I never missed you as I did this afternoon. Such a terrible depression came over me when you went…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/20: …Intuitions are strange things on the surface, but really there is nothing wonderful about them. They are simply based ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/21: …St Francis is the worst of all Saints to me; quite as human and tender as Jesus is represented to be… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/22: …It was so bad at Kroonstad… bad at Kroonstad that it actually delayed the train twenty minutes… it must ha...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/23: … Johannesburg does not seem like when you were here…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/24: …I can be quite happy here or anywhere if you are with me and loving me… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/25: …The life at the Homestead I know and understand fully is quite impossible to a man of your constitution and temper…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/26: …It is two weeks tomorrow since I came here. I have proved now that I can exist here at least as well as in Kimberley.…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/27: Between the artist soul and God alone can never lie the awful answer to that question, is my work complete, is it the express...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/28: …When you look at my hand when I am dead, you will be able to think that that had hand never set one dot or one stroke ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/29: You know, my dear o one, ever since I was a little child, life in a city has always been intolerable to me. Only you could ma...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/30: …You know it’s very curious my curious horror of uncertainty that makes me hate all games of chance, all thing th...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/31: …has spent months, he says, searching all the old registers and Burgomasters’ books which they have had in the vi...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/32: …The asthma and cold are better but my heart is troubling me a good bit. I find the nitrate of amyl very good... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/33: …It sees to me a ridiculous thing that you can’t transfer your articles from one state to another in South Africa...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/34: …Our little baby was born at a quarter past twelve on the morning of the 30th April 1895. I was put under chloroform an...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/35: …Yes, George Sand was an infinitely greater er woman than George Eliot, but not so finished an artist. Just as I think ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/36: …Haeckel was a second rate man, but a first-rate second-rate…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/37: …Just got here. I had a good journey, when judging of as I do all journeys. Dear old Robert met me at the station &...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/38: …Leaving tomorrow to Pretoria, not returning here. Write Pretoria…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/39: …You will get into your office today…, Have been lying down in bed all day day …. Our (looted) Our things a...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/40: …Your bedstead is smashed & the two side bars gone. Your old desk that you gave me has evidently been smashed open ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/41: …My experiences here have been painful. I am feeling so heart sore that if it were not for (some business affair), I wo...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/42: …I am feeling better since I got here; my brain seems resting a little… I hope you are not getting such a rush of...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/43: …I got here yesterday morning, & have not a touch of asthma as yet… I suppose Ollie goes with you to the offi...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/44: …It is heart breaking about our things in Johannesburg. Everything was smashed up & destroyed, but I’ve had t...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/45: …Fancy the bread turning wet & mouldy in one day on the lower shelf of the cupboard in the dining room… Ollie...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/46: …My own sweetheart, I wonder if you know how my heart is running out to you. Tomorrow is Alfred’s birthday & ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/48: …I have got into Naude’s house. It seems very nice to me only the papers are so bad…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/49: …We are just leaving De Aar. One thinks only of our three dead men lying in the sand… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/52: …My darling Husband, if only you were here I would be so happy. I long for you so, more here than at home… The Pu...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/53: …Yesterday I spent the day at the Highlands with Mother. It is simply lovely there, the place is so beautiful you would...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/54: …I am so glad ‘Arriet is at the office” Yesterday I went to the Highlands. There was a big gathering in my ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/55: …I saw the governor yesterday Just after seeing him I got a terrible attack of the heart… but I took a lot of dig...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/56: …I have such a longing to see you. I think I never longed to see you so much & I know it’s so foolish… ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/57: …I am longing to see Arriet & the dogs & the two new babies. If you were here I wouldn’t mind staying but...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/59: …It has been a bitter disappointment to me that I could not leave on Friday. I don’t get any more good by staying...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/60: …Thinking of you Dear, coming meet you station tomorrow… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/61: …all the animals are well… flourishing… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/62: …Miss Viljoen’s brother from Johannesburg is here. He says the Uitlanders are very “opstanding”. He s...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/63: …frost the night before last… All the animals are well & sweet. Tommie & Emmie are learning too to come &...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/64: …In the Midland News I have seen the speech the (SA) Party delivered. It is exceedingly clever & polite; but rather...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/65: …Such a perfect day here, dear Husband, neither hot nor cold, perfect(ly) calm and still. Like a soul that has found th...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/66: …We I am tried, dear; we are very, very lonely here, I am so glad I came for the sake of the others… I have much ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/67: …We have had three days of the most awful dust & wind I have ever known in my life. Thick, thick clouds of white du...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/68: …I took dear little ‘Arriet out of the cage & let her lie with me on the bed all the afternoon & she swif...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/70: …I put the little mierkats with little food basket & took them out for a walk on to a little koppie near the town t...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/72: …Yesterday I went to look at the farm Uitkyk. It is very nice & open & clear & good food. I am only afraid ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/73: …Such a charming young British woman….. Who spends her life looking after the old grandfather who is 80; she need...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/74: …I felt so anxious about you last night, so curiously heavy & depressed. I could not sleep all night. How are you d...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/75: …We got here about an hour ago from Beaufort. We got to Beisjes poort on Thursday evening about 9 o’clock, as the...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/76: …It is a beautiful & morning, not a cloud in the sky, but the mountains all round are white with the snow, to Zwart...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/77: …I have not real asthma here, but it is in my chest & eyes… & my... I am not so fit but I do hope the ast...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/78: …Mrs Le Roux is very anxious you should come up here. I suppose you wouldn’t care to come up from Friday to Monda...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/79: …We all want you here so, Dear, n even the little wife… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/80: …The people here are very kind nice & kind; good food & everything very clean. I would like to see you, & t...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/81: …I hope you are feeling stronger & eating heaps. Eat, eat, eat, & don’t worry about anything, my darling…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/82: …Yesterday there were a lot of strange dogs & people here & Tommie got a fright & ran away & wouldn’...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/85: …It was so beautiful to have you here. It all seems quite homelike now. I listen to the trains going past in the night ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/88: …Yes, you are very tired in body, my beloved, & tired a bit too in soul. I wonder sometimes if since you went to Jo...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/89: …I had a very acute attack of bronchitis; it was only by dear Miss Molteno getting me a hot bath & of three days su...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/90: …Ettie writes me that mother is very sinking & weak. Every note the little mother writes is about you coming & ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/91: …The mierkats are playing about me on the verandah. Miss Molteno & Miss Greene have gone for a walk. I’m afra...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/92: …When I said ‘chance’ in my other letter to you I should perhaps have said ‘fate’. But either c...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/93: …Oh it is such a glorious day, my husband. I wish you were here to go for a short walk over the hills in the exhilarati...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/95: …Arrived safely at Fraserburg Road, dear one. Will soon be at Uitkyk now; so happy to have been with you... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/96: … We are going to Prince Albert on Monday next, Mr Le Roux driving the whole family over in two carts. I shall be there...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/97: …I had pleasant women & a good little boy in my carriage, & got here yesterday afternoon, looking so well that ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/98: …Neta lay on the ground & howled with delight when she saw me & then ran round & round till she fell on the...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/99: …There was a Welsh woman on the train who was going to join her husband at Beaufort West, & she always called him h...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/100: …I have sent the papers for the house, no doubt it will be papered quite in time, but what I fear is the smell of the p...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/102: …I had a terrible fright this morning. The black girl suddenly called out the mierkats were being attacked by a strange...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/103: …a little poem on the mierkats Miss Greene wrote on the train going to Port Elizabeth & sent me yesterday... , One ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/104: …I do hope you will find all well with your business in Hanover. You could not stand much more worry, so now I am as yo...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/105: …Returning Uitkyk Tuesday hope all well dear husband… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/106: …How does my darling feel? I wish train journeys mn did you good as they do me. I have no asthma here & am very wel...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/107: …We leave tomorrow for Uitkyk… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/108: …I am ill, so shall not be leaving soon - Returned Uitkyk last night... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/110: …I think we shall surely leave tomorrow. I hope so, as I want to leave for Hanover this week if I can. I shall only sle...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/111: … I am ill, so shall not be leaving soon. Returned to Uitkyk last night… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/112: …I am leaving this on Tuesday for Hanover to go on to Bloemfontein on Thursday... Your wife who loves you... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/113: …I am out of bed today but a bit shaky about the legs. I felt ill some days before I left Prince Albert but tried to fi...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/114: …I got here at five this morning. My chest is bad... I have a great pain in my chest. The Du Toits are very kind; she i...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/115: …I have not gone. My chest is very bad…, My chest has got much worse since I came to Hanover, such bad expectorat...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/116: …I am better much, but have a great pain in my chest & hands are swelled. I think it’s purely my heart…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/117: …I wonder what plan we are going to make about the house. It seems to me it will all be right when you come. Your littl...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/118: …It seems so beautiful to think I shall see you here tomorrow. It has seemed as if we were never going to see anything ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/120: …Darling, we had the hottest journey down that any where in my life I have ever had. It was Hell. All the men were in t...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/122: …The Purcells are very sweet & kind... I have had no touch of asthma here. I long for Neta & Ollie & ‘...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/123: …My Dear Heart… This will reach you on Xmas Day, my darling. Surely some one will ask my Husband to go & have...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/125: …Good morning, my husband. I do hope you are still at Beaufort West & going to have a good Xmas Day with friends. I...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/126: …I have got your wire from Hanover saying you are there... I wonder what you get to eat & how it goes with my Cron ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/127: …I am leaving tomorrow morning… I felt so anxious about you in the night. I wondered if you were well & where...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/128: …You are now leaving Beaufort West. I got back here all right... All success be with you, darling, & better still, ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/129: …Better today dear husband. Hope all goes well... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/130: …You are starting for ?Klein ?Zwartburg… , There is not much news to give you as I never go out or see anyone. Va...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/131: …Oom Jan ill, can’t come… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/132: …I hope some of your speeches will be like that long splendid little speech you made here. It was delivered so clearly ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/133: …I wonder people who are rich are ever sad, because you could always be giving something to someone & doing somethi...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/134: …all last week I was so ill that on Thursday I wrote to Ettie to be ready to send me a nurse from Cape Town if I wired ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/135: …Got your wire this morning saying meeting at Beaufort West…was great success. So glad… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/137: …There is a panic about fever... , Neta & Ollie are so sweet, they lie by you all day on the bed one on each side t...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/138: … I can’t remember the day of the week… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/141: …Am a bit better today, temperature nearly down to normal... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/144: …all right… better…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/145: …You vary strangely as to your appearance & age. When I first saw you, at the Cawoods if Mrs Cawood had not told m...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/149: …Many happy returns all goes well heavy rain... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/150: …Dear one, I want you to get a wire from me tomorrow on your birthday… I hope it will be a nice day & everyon...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/152: …My dear Husband, this is your birthday night. I hope you had a good day, & I hope someone gave you a good dinner. ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/153: …My Dear husband, before I got your letter this morning, Dr. Wilson called & said you had asked him to call as you ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/156: …It has been a lovely day, heaven & earth perfect, the air at no time so hot that to go out would be unpleasant. Ye...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/157: … I see your speech in the S.A. News ; it is a first rate speech. I am much, much better... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/158: …Were you depressed or worried about anything on Wednesday night? I was so miserable & anxious about you all night,...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/160: …I sent you a note to Hudson’s care, asking you to get the books from Robert that Mrs Pullinger had… & ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/162: …Tell me how Neta is. Tell ?Gobanie I will bring him back a present... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/163: …Send all letters immediately Balfour, Stockenstroom especially Wills… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/164: …Please keep all the nartjes till I return. Leaving Cradock for Cookhouse, Friday... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/165: …Wire Balfour. Keep letters Hanover. I am well love... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/166: …Write. Send letters care Alcott, Bedford. Am well dear... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/167: …Leaving Balfour Friday morning, arrived Bedford Monday probably. How are you husband... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/168: … Leaving Balfour today, not going Healdtown, arrive Bedford Sunday... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/169: …Arrived this morning. Leaving Tuesday. Will wire again. Love… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/170: …At Cookhouse we found Mrs Alcot & her daughter waiting for us; they had come over from Bedford to meet us… A...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/171: …My husband, we left Bedford on Thursday afternoon in a strange old buck-waggon with a little tent at the back. We have...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/172: …My darling Husband, I am sitting in the waggon half way between Adelaide & Blinkwater. We have been outspanned her...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/173: …We arrived here at dawn this morning… The saloon carriage which Will has arranged to meet us here will not arriv...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/174: …Your sweet letter came to me yesterday when I was working by the grave. It was such a comfort to me. I have read it ov...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/175: … We have been here now five days... This place & work is very very sad. All is so changed here, even the old trees...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/176: … It is quite nice to be again in a world where there are posts. At Balfour there are only two a week, & only one f...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/179: …The train was pretty full at Hanover Road, so the conductor has put me in a beautiful large saloon with seats for eigh...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/180: …Pouring rain but both well. Love, dear husband…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/181: …Ettie is to come to see me at 8 o’clock & tell me all the full arrangements for the funeral on Friday…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/182: …Thank you my husband for the letter I got this morning. It made all the day seem lighter… Sweet little Neta is o...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/183: …No use operation May live a couple of months… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/184: …Dr Hutcheon & Robertson examined Neta. I laid her on her back & knelt by her on the floor. She was quite quiet...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/185: …Good night, my Pal. I shall be glad to see the clean sand & the mierkats & Gobalie but the thing I want to see...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/186: …I came here yesterday. The place is too lovely for words, & the dear friends so sweet; but I sat up all night with...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/187: …I took little Neta to Hutcheon again today. He was very kind & had a long talk about her, but did not could not re...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/188: …I took Neta again this morning, but dear old Hutcheon would not operate. He was however very kind, says I must let him...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/189: …I will leave on Wednesday. I must be with you. You love Neta so too. It’s been a hard two weeks here, dear. I wo...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/190: …I am going to get up early tomorrow & go out before nine & shop the whole day only coming up once or twice to ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/191: …I have felt so lonely here. I have actually gone out to the ----, great Jingoes as they are, & it was such a comfo...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/192: …Darling, got here splendidly, the air so nice & cool. I wish I had left something nicer for you than those tough s...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/193: …Cool, almost cold here. Country all green & under water. Drought in the Free State almost worse than in Hanover…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/194: …I have got a seat in a carriage with only one woman & a child, but the woman wants to take my seat facing engine, ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/195: …From Vereeniging to Johannesburg we went by the new line, using the first train that had ever passed upon it... Advoca...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/196: …Everyone is so sweet & kind here. There are thousands & thousands passing up from Johannesburg. De Wet is stay...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/197: …We had a splendid day for the funeral yesterday, cool & grey, cloudy, but no rain… I am perfectly well…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/198: …I have no asthma, not the slightest touch since I left Hanover & at Pretoria my heart was splendid, better even th...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/199: …I have the most splendid story about M. to tell you. He is a coward…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/200: …Rain tank half full. Well dear husband… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/201: …You will just be arriving at Prince Albert now, I think. It’s about 6 o’clock… I hope the speeches i...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/202: …I gave most of the buck away but roasted a bit of loin yesterday. It was without exception the most delicious bit of v...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/203: …Your little note written near Three Sisters has just come. It is very sweet to me. The expression of sympathy & un...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/204: …I’ve read that life of Cavour. It’s exceedingly able. It greatly intensifies the feeling I have always had...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/205: … The weather was very cold! Mierkats all sleeping round the stove!... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/206: …I suppose you hadn’t time to read myl my bit of MS.? It’s difficult for me to judge at it apart from the w...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/207: …I wrote till twelve o’clock last night, & then read Whitman till one. There was a time when Browning seemed ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/208: …Ollie is quite lost without you. She keeps going down the stairs to look for you. You look so very tired, my darling…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/209: …Soon after you left this morning, the heat ended and a dense cold mist came over the Kloof Nek. It is quite cold now. ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/210: …I was very glad to get your letter & it was such a surprise too, I wasn’t expecting it. I’m glad you l...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/211: …I am writing the article for the Cape Times re Taal &c. But it will bring the hornet’s nest about my ears ag...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/212: …Pouring rain… Anna Purcell was here this morning here for a little while this afternoon. She says the mierkats a...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/213: …My article is finished. I am going down to see the News (S.Af, News) about printing it. I wonder if they will refuse t...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/214: …What of your new clerk (?Meyer). Please bring down with you some copies of your papers on spiders… I have a lett...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/215: …It’s shameful of those men to put you down as a director without asking your permission… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/216: …The only success that matters is keeping our souls clean & bright ---- & that’s so hard sometimes The an...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/217: …Ever since last night I have had such a longing to see you, such a kind of anxious feeling about you. I keep going to ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/218: …The two dogs are sleeping in the two arm chairs. I think like someone else they are longing for the old man back. My a...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/219: …Such a nice letter from your dear old mother this morning. She likes the letter in the paper so much. The dear old lad...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/221: …I took Ollie to sleep with me last night. She lay quite still curled up under my down quilt till morning. I took her o...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/222: …Yesterday afternoon I went to see ---- Mrs. Jan du Toit as I heard she was ill with a bad throat. I was glad to get ba...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/223: …I am so sorry you found all in such disorder at De Aar. I had hoped you would have an easy time there. The worry is wo...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/224: …It was a nice little bit of sunshine you coming today, dear one. I only wish there had not been that worrying business...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/225: …I am looking forward to my little trip on Saturday. The 5 mierkats have all been sitting up in front of the fire while...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/226: …I am back again, dear Husband. Our little house never looked were sweet & cozy. All the mierkats are well… I...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/228: …We got here finally, such a nice ride. I had such a delightful little visit, dear. Wish you felt as fresh as I do…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/229: …I’m so glad to hear it’s all right about ?Nathan. Yes, you must be very tied, sweet heart, with all that w...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/230: …Bring up some green peas & beans if you can & a few onions & potatoes... , Goodbye, my own pal, your littl...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/231: …You are now nearing Victoria West Road… She had been calling: “It’s curious that living away civilis...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/232: …The cold here is wonderful; sharper than anything I’ve ever known even in Hanover, but it’s suiting me spl...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/233: …I got your wire this morning. I am glad to know you are there all right. It has been very hot since you left. I took t...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/234: …It’s a very hot day, my husband; the hottest we have had for a long time. The Purcells left at 12 today. I had t...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/235: …I got here at 8 eight, my husband. At ten I went to the dentists …tooth smashed, not leaving tonight, writing…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/237: …Ollie cried for you in the most extraordinary way last night, all the evening she kept running about & whining: I ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/238: …I had just left Hanover again. Ollie caught a mouse in the bedroom, slept with her, & the mierkats are flourishing...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/240: …Gobalie is there. 130 lbs of fruit had come from Prince Albert… enough for a year...,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/241: …Mrs Burger brought me a J jug of buttermilk yesterday, that is all that has happened since I left… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/242: …Mrs Burger has been so kind, sent me over a nice dinner today (Sunday). I did enjoy it so... I have had a good deal of...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/244: …I hope you are now safely at De Aar... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/246: …All my real interest has gone from the Boer question for the present. They are more than able to take care of themselv...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/247: …Strange how near death always is to us, the one thing which is certain & yet we think of it so little it seems suc...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/248: …My own love, I don’t know why I feel such a great yearning about you, nothing else is in my thoughts. I shall be...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/249: …I suppose you returned from Beaufort West late last night. Your speech at De Aar I have just read. I think it splendid...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/250: …I’ve had such a happy day, dear. This morning Ollie & I went for a walk on to the top of the big flat-topped...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/251: …Rested, better, lovely weather, bright sunshine… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/252: …Oh this place is so lovely & the air so peaceful. Goodbye, dear Husband. My head is still so ?muzy, but I am much ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/253: …The mierkats box came today. I had them put in a nice sunny place in the kitchen yard. We had a fine day yesterday, bu...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/254: …The Purcells will go with us to Laingsburg too...,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/255: …It’s a beautiful, absolutely calm perfected morning, such as one absolutely unknown at Hanover or De Aar - like ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/256: …My chest is better; haven’t been out of the house for the last three days... , I feel curiously played out menta...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/257: …Out walking & basking in the sun. The rain & wind ?blowing ceased for a while… I am feeling much better…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/258: …I am glad your dentist was good & that it’s well over… The sand & heat were too awful… After...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/260: …It is 7 o’clock. I am sitting in the little waiting room, waiting for the train that will leave for Matjesfontei...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/261: …Got here at 5.12. Very cold but got into bed. Slept splendidly till 8. Had a good breakfast. Am now going to send you ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/262: …I can see so clearly now… I can feel the blood moving in my brain now on the top. Every one here is so kind to m...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/263: …It’s such a glorious day here. I feel so wonderfully better… Every moment is a joy, I mean a physical joy…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/264: …I wrote exactly three hours of my book yesterday & slept ten hours last night without ?hearing or stirring. Oh, I ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/265: …There was a glorious sunset as I came back, all the white masses of cloud on the mountains lighted up pink & gold ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/267: …I’ve got half a chapter done since I came here. 18th Did I tell you that, when Bessie Findlay heard that Robert ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/268: …You know I’ve got the feeling here that I used to have that I’d like to live hundreds & hundreds of ye...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/269: …Do you sometimes feel this Ollie’s love runs right across to you over the Karroo, & comes to your office &...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/270: …So poor old Martin went off suddenly! I remember seeing him first when I was five years old at Aliwal North…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/271: …All my life I have found that I do my best work in the early hours of the day. Strange to think of you having heat &...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/272: …Please send stove and little pot by passenger train… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/273: …I wanted it to heat things in the night, but I’m better now… I’m not bad dear, but my heart is very ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/274: …I long for your face so. I seem to want nothing else but just to see you… Take care of my husband for me. Rememb...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/275: …No dear, I wouldn’t on any account have you come for one day. If I were to wire for you, it would be only becaus...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/276: …Yes, you hit on the great blot in the character drawing in Coniston. It is ridiculous & impossible that that Cynth...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/277: …Sometimes for three days I don’t exchange a word with a human creature... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/278: …It always seems to me more & more that the only thing that really matters in life is not wealth or poverty, pleasu...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/279: …On the 9th or 10th I will return to Hanover spending one day there. If I were getting better here I would stay on what...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/280: …Feeling better, beautiful cold wind & digitalis, looking forward… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/281: …I slept last night, the first night for two weeks… , …great doses of digitalis”. Oh love, it is wick...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/282: …It was very very beautiful to have you here. I don’t know when in my life I have spent such a happy two days. I ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/283: …Dear old Brown is coming up to see me tomorrow: he will be here two hours… It will be splendid if they get the w...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/284: …Dr Brown came this morning. He says the pains I have are all from my heart. He examined me ?entirely says I am complet...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/285: …It’s a splendid day here, dear, & light & fresh for this time of the year. Would you were here… I ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/286: …I am taking strychnine & digitalis & they are me ... I went out and played some golf this morning, the first ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/287: …Yes, old Brown is good. It’s a pity he just came on one of those the very days when I had that sudden betterness...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/288: …How sweet of you to pay for me dear… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/289: …I wonder if you will think it as lovely as I do. After all these year I can go back there & feel exactly as I felt...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/290: …Everything is empty today: something has got los…. , I wrote at my book all the morning… I think your face...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/291: …How does my dear little house look? I love it so. I would b buy it from you & keep (it) all my life as a final pla...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/292: …There is still no one in the hotel. I never open my lips except to talk to myself & ask the waiter for things... , ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/295: …I don’t know when I’ve ever for years been so well as today. I’ve worked & written from this mor...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/296: …It is one of the “charmed days” - the sky blue, the sun shining, a sweet cool wind blowing. I went out to ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/297: …Yes, my dear one I can understand what ‘balm’ the quiet is to you with your dear sensitive brain, that fee...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/298: …Yes, dear, what your poor over-taxed brain needs is just a month in which to do nothing but eat & sleep & lie ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/300: …I hope Old Party will be alive when I go back. You know I think we shall just some day find her sitting in the sun dea...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/301: …I do hope the locusts will disappear… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/303: …The news has just come that the Springboks have just won 11 to nil. Simply astonishing. Great excitement. The Postmast...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/306: …It’s a curious day with a thick scotch mist over the mountains. I’d like to go out & play golf. It’...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/308: …I am getting better & better. I am getting quite hard, my muscles; its got that spring about it as you put it, whe...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/311: …If you undertake the business management entirely, for at least the first six months, it will be a success. I have fai...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/312: …I’m copying out the chapter of my work now, ready to have it type written... Beautiful & cool... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/313: …I wish I could have seen you ploughing Oh I do wish we lived right on a farm where we had only to work with the dear a...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/315: …Will meet the mierkats tomorrow…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/316: …The mierkats got here at 11 o’clock…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/317: …The heat is past; a cold South-East wind is blowing & there’s a glorious South East bank of cloud upon the t...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/318: …We’ve had the most absolutely perfect day here, one can dream of… General Malan is married & they have...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/319: …Do you know those days that are so beautiful that they make a big lump rise in your throat & something seems choki...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/320: …I can’t sleep much, & I always wake to find myself howling & my pillow nearly wet through… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/322: …Yes, I like Jagger. He always strikes me as one of the straightest men in the House… Just got my English mail: a...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/323: …I’m getting ‘fine’ with my work. Dear one, it’s very sweet of you to go with me to Hanover, bu...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/324: …It was so nice to see the old face this evening, but tired & worried I saw: yet a bit better than when it went dow...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/325: …Rug lovely, darling; many thanks for it; hope rested… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/326: …Did you see me waving the big towel on the back stoep after you? I watched the cart till it was a little speck going r...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/327: …I keep seeing your old face wherever I go..., I would like some one to sleep here, not because I’m nervous, but ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/328: …I’ve seen no one today except two boys who came to ask if I wanted to buy scorpions!... cleaning up the house &...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/329: …I’m so well today. Tomorrow I’m going to try to get to my writing …. The men are walking at the Tran...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/330: …It’s nice that De Aar is not so very far. If I stretched out my arm very much might touch a dear, iron grey head...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/331: …has resigned from the Library Liba Committee. He said he couldn’t afford to pay for library subscription, felt h...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/332: …My little girl’s parents are leaving & she is gone…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/333: …A truly terrible day: what must it be at de Aar… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/334: …I walked up & down for a long time after you went you went & sat on our beautiful stoep. Your birthday visit w...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/335: …I have a letter from Dr. Brown. He says Guy is at Valkenburg. 29th… ?Vatijin’s sou sister is to come (as s...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/336: …The little boy came last night… seems never out of my mind. Poor old Ettie… Didn’t Oliver do well…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/337: …My girl has come: she seems to be a perfect treasure… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/338: …Old Party (‘Arriet) is getting into the Nirvana stage now: she sits on the arm chair & out in the sun lookin...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/339: …Did you note in the papers that the Natal government means to have another native rising ?in ?... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/341: …It looks so nice…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/343: …Those dear women in London. It’s the finest stand women have made anywhere in the world yet; because only a woma...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/344: …My girl Lena is really splendid…. , 8.30pm. My god, Cron, I nearly got my wish! & “was looking out of ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/345: …Ollie has fallen passionately in love with my rug you sent gave me. Yesterday evening I wrapped it round my legs when ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/347: …It is interesting because I am a woman & he is a man. It’s very curious. If my book hadn’t been writte...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/349: …It’s curious I’ve hated thinness or any approach to it so all my life, it’s physically repulsive to ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/350: …I have painted my baby’s little inner coffin, the shell, a beautiful pure white with Aspinal’s Enamel &...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/351: …I am so absorbed & interested in my book. I don’t like to think of anything else. I suppose tonight will see...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/352: …Last night an owl sat on the roof for hours hooting, & every time it hooted Ollie at my feet gave a growl!... , <...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/353: …I must try to go for walks now it’s cooler, for poor little Ollie. But I do hate this veld here, so much, oh so ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/354: …Federation will only be bought at the price of all justice to the Native; with a terrible retribution in the years to ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/356: …I rather dread the two days at Mrs Kriel’s; but oh I look forward to going to that place with you in the cart......; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/357: …I got here about 11 this morning. Thanks to your thoughtful tipping, the guard came & helped me out nicely with ma...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/358: …I have got a letter from Mrs… asking me to be one of the vice presidents of the Woman’s Suffrage League th...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/359: …The older I grow the more intensely it seems to me that there’s nothing worth living for but love and tenderness...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/360: …As I can’t play golf with you, my stick will… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/361: …I am afraid that ‘my young man’ had a very cold drive. The fire was a great success, dear. How good of you...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/362: …You will be going off tomorrow morning early… Your wife wishes you all good wishes, deeper than her pen can writ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/364: …I was so glad to get your wire from Laingsburg I hope he meeting was good… Yesterday I had to send for Dr. Wilso...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/365: …It was so sweet of you to send me that wire yesterday. I am better this morning. I slept some, as the Yankies say, las...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/366: …Had fr fair night, feels better today, not immediate anxiety. Writing… Don’t come dear, please, am wonderf...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/367: …How has my poor night traveller got to De Aar?... I hope you got a bit of rest before work. My own Cron, I love you…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/368: …I’ve moved into the back bedroom today. There’s nothing like a change… , I did not have an attack of...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/369: …I’m mending up my clothes for P. E. ?Benjeur is greatly ?requisition… How do you spell aggarette? My dict...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/370: …Heavy rain. Goodbye, my young man, Ollie… It’s strange how that ideal of an absolute love & sympathy w...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/372: …My Pal, I’m much, b much better this morning. Who knows how much better I’ll be when I get away from Hanov...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/373: …I hope so much you found the office in perfect order & not too much nx. to be worked up… I wish I could be ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/374: …Oh I did enjoy my six days with you so much… You don’t know how that wine you gave me on my birthday is he...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/375: …Botha & all that stuff is sickening! Yes, there’s a bad time coming for the nation…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/376: …I hear that the cancer has fallen out of Oom Sarel’s stomach… Your golf score is fine... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/377: …Digitalis has brought Oom Sarel’s pulse down from 120 to 99... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/378: …Botha & the whole Transvaal attitude is loathsome… A dreary weary windy dark cold day today… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/379: …I’ve been sorting all my old letters. Nearly all my friends begin ‘My dear beautiful Olive,’ or ‘...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/380: …I watched your cart go round the bottom of the Spitz Kop; just after, the rain began. It is now a quarter past four, t...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/381: …I have an infinite love and tenderness for you, the like of which I have not felt for all the people who have been so ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/382: …It’s our little girl’s birthday. She would have been eleven years old. Oom Sarel is dying… take spar...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/383: …I hope your meeting did turn out a great success. The weather here remains very terrible, but a few pale streaks of su...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/384: …Weary, dreary, mizzle & wind. A dark grey sky from which thunder & lightening sometimes comes... I have got an...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/385: …I am much better… It’s only when one can’t work that the silence seems to great. Goodbye my own Ladd...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/386: …Con Lytton went to see Miss Molteno, who is very much impressed with her, says she’s like a goddess and “m...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/387: …’Arriet is very tame & she understands more than the others. I think with animals as with savage nations, th...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/389: …I hear from Miss Viljoen that a lion killed a man at Oppermans Kraal yesterday; a Kaffir herd. His head & legs hav...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/390: …Pouring rain. It is 11 o’clock & I have only just lit the fire & the mierkats are all sitting in front o...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/391: …So Garrett’s gone! Yes, how short life is. When I look back on mine nothing seems real & to make life worth ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/392: …I do hope it will be fine for the trip to Cradock next week. Be sure to stay at the Victoria Hotel; it’s beautif...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/393: …I watched your cart till if went round the foot of the Spitz Kop, & out of sight. The dear old slippers are lying ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/394: …Whatever you do, don’t move into that room till it’s quite dry!... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/395: …There’s a dense fog this morning. At 8.30 I could not see well in the house without a light, & not further t...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/396: …very hot & oppressive, but I have to keep the fire going to dry the air… Oh, I wish I could get my book done...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/397: …My dear Women, how they are coming on! You would have to know how I have loved women, & how much they are to me, t...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/398: …I have not yet been able to write… That one chapter is longer than Peter Halket. Now come two little chapters; t...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/399: …Glad you made such a good score at golf… About 7 o’clock this morning I put out my map & went to the s...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/400: …The cold here has been something that no words can describe; no fire made any difference; no clothes helped… , I...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/401: …I have never felt that age made any great difference between men & women, but the happiest marriages I have know I...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/404: …Yes, I know, dear, how tired & overworked you are… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/405: …No one has called on me but I’d like to see them all the same… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/407: …My old man (who is much sweeter to me than that brand new young man of 30 that I shall have someday”. My breath ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/408: …If I shouldn’t come back, you will know our baby’s little coffin is in the box at the foot of my bed. Don’...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/409: …There are heaps of white ants in the study. I have had the mierkats in to eat them… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/410: …It is a glorious day here. I had a splendid night last night… Ollie is looking everywhere for you. Oh, Pal, I do...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/412: …I’m a bit better today but rather flapdodally… I am sorry you find found things so disordered in the offic...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/413: …Lovely morning, dear. Everything looks so beautiful. Hex River white with snow. Had a splendid night. Air lovely here....; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/414: …Arranged Animals Eli. Longing see you. So lonely. Wire arrived…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/415: …I promise you to I’ll get some one if I am ill; but at present I’m well, & it only gives me an extra r...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/416: …I had a delightful journey here as far as sun & sunlight went. I began to breathe as soon as I got on the rise abo...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/417: …It is very hot… reading Theal’s History of S. Africa for the second time. I haven’t been able to wor...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/418: …My husband, I was so glad to get your letter from Prieska… I wish you could have a real holiday… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/419: …I will be glad to hear how things are at Prieska and at De Aar with the work. But that must wait till I come. You must...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/420: …I have just got your beautiful long letter from Prieska & De Aar. No one writes such interesting letters as you…...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/421: …I’ve just re-read for the third time your interesting letter, It’s very interesting about that insect …...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/422: …It is such a glorious day, when ‘the genius of god doth show’. It seems almost wicked to be working in the...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/423: …Och, dear, I wish I could be always with you: I’m a poor little guard, but I’m something. Oh, I could bear...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/424: …A bitterly cold night… There was frost last night... I have had a fire here all day… This is the last lett...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/425: …Ollie & ‘Arriet have struck up the most wonderful friendship friendliness: they lick & caress each other...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/426: …I have just got your letter from Klaarstroom… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/427: …Ollie never leaves for me for one second. When I call you she looks for you everywhere…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/428: …I have discovered a new genius who will demand success, George Meridith wrote to an intimate friend… when he rea...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/430: …I do want to see the lines go out of my young man’s face - always so beautiful to me. Old or lined or not. Take ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/432: …asked me to write my name on a bit of paper for her; the sweet little woman flushed up to the roots of her hair & ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/434: …Mrs. Astrop is here. O. is much better…. ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/435: …I got such a sweet letter from your mother... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/436: …He’s a curious antidote to this commercial, striving, self-seeking, individualistic world. Man is not meant to l...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/437: …Mrs Logan took me for a splendid 4 hours drive this afternoon, to an old dam that I often used to ride out to in the o...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/440: …You are starting off for B’West again tonight... The food most excellent as M’fontein: they kill their own...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/442: …This morning I was on the balcony & saw the train come in, with two engines & smoke flying, & all going, &...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/443: …I wish you were in the train too. There’s no fun without old man Cron… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/445: … “the top of the rise” “the Klein Zwartberg mountains, white with snow & all lit up with ( most ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/446: …I sat up writing at my book till one last night & did a lot of work. I would finish my book in a little more than ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/448: …Wrote you a letter but dropped it in the street. Hope some one will post it… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/450: …”Tucker is splendid. As soon as the asthma gets bad, I begin to puff, puff, & it goes over’... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/451: …You are driving along in the train now, reading “Jock” perhaps. I am reviving already... ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/452: …It’s too wonderful how much better I am tonight… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/453: …I send a little bird all across the Karroo to De Aar singing love, love, love to you. It’s my little thought tha...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/454: …I love you so dear, you know that, you’ll always know that, eh? I’d have done so much more to make life be...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/455: …What sweet letters you write me; they help me so… , Oh darling, how beautiful life would be if I could be well, ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/457: …One day, when Edward Carpenter dies, they will discover there as a great spiritual force among them., “And did y...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/458: …perfect weather…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/459: …Theo & Katie Stuart are living here now….,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/460: …It has been such a glorious wonderful day here. Even a bit of white wall with the sunlight falling on it, or a stone, ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/461: …Dear old head, I love it, when I see it bending over the papers writing… When I’m away from you & alwa...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/462: …Goodnight, my Pal. One night we won’t be able to say goodnight any more; we’ll both be lying still. Let us...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/463: …The food here is now awful. No electric light, one candle in a bedroom in a bedroom candlestick; old Vrek ?ooi for mut...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/466: …I fancy I see you walking about in the old little house I have loved so. Oh, if only we could trans transport that lit...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/467: …I don’t know where I shall go … There are times when I give up all hope, but I look at the dear old mounta...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/468: …You will be at Hanover now... Give my love to Miss Viljoen. She’s always been a true unchanging friend to me - a...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/472: …If you have to stay, do write me fully of mother’s condition. Oh, I am so glad you will be there with her before...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/474: …It was a surprise & delight to find your letter here when I came in this evening, my Pal…,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/476: …Did you see me waving the lamp outside as you went last night?...,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/477: …Although it’s a dusty day, there’s no dust at our house… ,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/478: …I do have dear good friends. I wonder if anyone has such loyal friends, & why they are sweet to me... , …wil...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/479: …I want it nicely plastered out and a tiny window at the back & a door in front with a fan-light. I want to make it...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/480: ...Lever neef Jan, Ik stur for jo en article vat ik geschreva als ek. Maar Got hat daarm for oude Kleine Tantje eets lat seen...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/481: …I got here this morning an hour later. Had a delightful journey as the women let me sleep with both window & the d...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/482: …I enclose Jannie’s letter. It’s private of course. I don’t want a little Afrikander nation: if there...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/484: …You remember when Chomanie took my watch, you gave me an old one… The food is truly awful… A long letter f...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/485: …Miss Hobhouse says Smuts talks openly in the T’Vaal about shooting down the niggers as… , Letters are not ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/486: …It’s very uncanny in this big house all alone, but I don’t mind this sort of loneliness. It’s the me...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/487: …Gibbon says that quotation is on the grave of a Courtney in Devon. After speaking of the 55 years’ happiness he ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/488: …I have been watching a little ant this morning for more than half an hour. I think I never loved such a tiny creature ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/491: …You know I feel to anything that is oppressed or hurt just exactly as I felt to my little baby. I was lying on the bed...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/492: …That is an interesting talk of Jerome’s on marriage in the Nation you sent me. It takes, in quite another way as...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/493: …Mrs. ?C is dead. It’s strange that the death of a great beautiful person never affects me so painfully as one o...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/494: …Oh my love, my darling. I love you so. You will always know that I have loved you like nothing else on earth - that I ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/495: …Won’t it be lovely to be at old Lelie Kloof again? I feel as if I should be a young, young girl again if I go th...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/496: …It’s rather interesting about “The Hunter” being read to Herbert Spencer just before he died…....; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/498: … Sunday Morning… , …I got here last night. I got your letter in Cradock. I shall be home the end of this w...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/504: …We got here this morning, dear. The journey was delightful. You know how I love the train. The Kalahari is the most be...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/505: …Falls surpass all dreams. Splendidly well. Wish you here….,; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/506: …We saw the Falls yesterday. I walked all through the Rain Forest & past the Danger Point. Oh Cron, no words can de...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/507: …We went up in a motor boat on Tuesday morning, a small motor boat with 15 people in it beside the man who worked it &...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/509: ...I went to see Bill take his degree at the City Hall yesterday. When I saw the great crowd of girls in their caps & gow...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/511: …Dear loved one, I’m glad you like my writings. I wish I could more often show you myself that which you could as...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/512: …I had a long argument with Dot yesterday about marriage. She seems to think it ought to be a wild inebriation & ex...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/513: …The Beethoven Concert was heaven! We had the 7th Sympathy in A, perhaps the divinist thing the human spirit have ever ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/514: …Yesterday Will took me & Ursula to Frankfort-on-the-Main. It's about 3/4 of an hour from here by train. We went fi...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/515: ...?Griesan ?Kr ?Seh ?Weidrietz..., …At Weimar I got out as I wanted to see Goethe’s house. It’s a pretty l...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/516: …It is funny why I have always to be out of everything. The day will never come when I can be in the stream. Something ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/517: …Thursday, My Cron, I have your long letter. I got it two days ago. When I got your letter & read the first page &...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/518: …After I’d finished writing to you today, I tried to lie down & read the papers, but I felt I was suffocating...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/519: …I have been reading The Way of All Flesh by Butler. I think the man Ernest is almost too weak & disgusting to be r...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/520: …There was a little deal box among the luggage Oliver brought to the station at Waterloo, a little larger than a soap b...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/521: …I also feel just as you do about Wordsworth. I did not like him at all when I was young - and now I read him with more...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/522: …When I sit here alone in the dark day after day, I know more & more & more certainly that nothing matters much...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/523: …I have no news to give you; have seen no one & heard nothing but what is in the papers. This I felt I must get out...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/525: …I don’t think absolute solitude is healthy for any human creature. Men need to talk just as they need to eat..., ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/526: …Yes, Janni has the most extraordinary faith in words I wonder if he thinks they must represent things. He ought to hav...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/527: …the terrible horror I feel for Hanover. It is the only place on earth I absolutely hate. When I think of Hell, I think...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/528: …I am so glad you are going to Winnie’s (Cambridge Terrace). You will find that much the best part of London in W...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/529: …I go to Jessie Innes tomorrow for a few days… How I look forward to it I can’t tell you… I am readin...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/530: …Jannie denied in the papers that he had asked for Connaught to be sent out----but no one believes him. “De Burge...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/531: …Friday night… Alfred and the two boys came to see me this evening. Cedric is a darling; the little chap is nice ...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/532: …Masabala’s trial will come on on the second. It was a sort of Amritzar in Port Elizabeth, without the excuse for...; Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/533: …Ireland will never be free till there is a labour government in England. I have said that for thirty years. The wealth...
NLSAMSB834OSMisc: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Harry Gie MSB 834/1.3.1: Wednesday morning, Dear Harry Gie,, You will think I & my dog are the greatest bores you ever knew., But would you give t...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Harry Gie MSB 834/1.3.2: Rosyvera , Norfolk Rd , Sea Point, July 20th 1907, My dear Harry, I am just really glad to hear your good news. And your dear...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Harry Gie MSB 834/1.3.3: Matjesfontein, From, O.S., To, H.G., , Thanks. Hope flourishing. Arrive 30th Pools Hotel evening, 9. o'clock. If small figu...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.1: Hanover, Sunday, Dear Dr Wilson, Please let me have my account. I must take this opportunity of thanking you again for your v...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.2: Tuesday, Dear Dr Wilson, I am deeply sorry to hear Mrs Wilson is not improving as you had hoped. I should have sent every day...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.3: Hanover, Wednesday , Dear Mrs Wilson , Please send me a word by the girl if you are still all right. If I could be of any use...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.4: Dear Mrs Wilson , I was simply horrified today to find your cookery books still here. The very day you sent them I gave them ...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.5: Dear Mrs Wilson, How sweet of you to send me those lovely vegetables. Mr Schreiner is coming this afternoon & I’ve ...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.6: Dear Dr Wilson, I am so sorry to hear you are so unwell. I wish I could be of a little help to you as you have so often been ...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.7: Rossyvera, Norfolk Rd, Sea Point, July 21st 1907 , My dear Mrs Wilson, I was so glad to get the good news that your little on...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.8: 19 Adam Street, Portman Squ , London , Feb 18th 1917 , Dear Mrs Wilson , I was so glad to get your letter & have some new...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Unknown MSB 834/1.5.1: 30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, Kensington, Saturday, Dear Sir, I never have "interviews" & I am just leaving for Bad Nauheim...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: F.S. Lewis MSB 834/1.6.1: The Homestead, Dec 25 / 97, Dear Mr Lewis, I am ashamed to trouble you again but necessity must be my excuse. In something I ...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: F.S. Lewis MSB 834/1.6.2: The Homestead, Kimberley, Oct 13 / 95, Dear Mr Lewis, My husband is writing a work on the angora goat; there are several book...; J.H. Hofmeyr MSB 8/Box9/1: 2 Primrose Terrace , Berea Estate , Johannesburg , June 3rd 1899, Dear Mr Hofmeyr, I hope you received the copy of my paper o...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Ellen Sauerlander MSB 834/3.9.1: Grand Hotel, Muizenberg, South Africa. , Dear Mrs Sauerlander , I am sorry to trouble you, but have you a room on the top flo...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Ellen Sauerlander MSB 834/3.9.2: Grand Hotel,, Muizenberg,, South Africa. , Dear Mrs Sauerlander , Thank you so much for your sweet letter. , It is so kind of...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Ellen Sauerlander MSB 834/3.9.3: Dear Mrs Sauerlander , I shall not need the pudding, & fruit again – but I am going to make myself some sour milk, ...; Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Ellen Sauerlander MSB 834/3.9.4: Tuesday morning , Dear Mrs Sauerlander , I shall be leaving tomorrow morning, Wednesday. Many thanks for all your kindness to...
NLSAMSC26TOS-OliverSchreinerTypes: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections: Olive Schreiner: MSC 26/2.15/number 62: Oudeberg, Monday night, Dear Son Oliver, My hearty congratulations – but I’m not a bit surprised!! I haven’...

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