Olive Schreiner Letters Online

Letter Reference	Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.1
Archive	National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	After Start: Sunday 1900 ; Before End: 1907
Address From	Hanover, Northern Cape
Address To
Who To	Dr Wilson
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The manuscript of this letter by Olive Schreiner belongs to the Archive referenced above; its ownership of the original should be acknowledged by referencing the letter as indicated: Copyright transcription: © Olive Schreiner Letters Project. This transcription can be freely used as long as copyright is acknowledged and it is referenced using the following citation: ‘Olive Schreiner to Dr Wilson, 1900, NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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The Project is grateful to the National Library of South Africa (NLSA), Cape Town, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Special Collections. This letter is a photocopy; the original cannot be traced. It has been dated approximately by reference to when Schreiner was living in Hanover. Schreiner was resident in Hanover from September 1900 to October 1907, after 1902 with visits, sometimes fairly lengthy, elsewhere.

1:  Hanover
2:  Sunday
3: 
4:  Dear Dr Wilson
5: 
6:  Please let me have my account. I must take this opportunity of
7:  thanking you again for your very great kindness & attention to me when
8:  I was ill. I do not think I would have been alive if it had not been
9:  for you.
10: 
11:  I am always meaning to come over & see Mrs Wilson, but am always
12:  afraid of meeting other visitors who may not be very anxious to see me!
13: 
14:  I'm so glad your boy is doing so splendidly.
15: 
16:  Yours faithfully
17:  Olive Schreiner
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