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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.28 |
| Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | May 1891 |
| Address From | Cape Town, Western Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Mary Sauer nee Cloete |
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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 Mary Sauer nee Cloete, May 1891, 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. The month and year have been written on this letter in an unknown hand. Content indicates Schreiner was in Cape Town when it was written. Schreiner stayed in Cape Town for most of May to August or September 1891.
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My darling Mary,
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Dear one, do forgive me, I am so very, very, very, tired. I can't
4: think how I made the mistake about Thursday. Can't you come to me on
5: Tuesday afternoon. I'll try & come out & see you tomorrow evening but
6: I'm not sure that I can.
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I got some beautiful letters & poems by last mail. I send you one. I'm
9: so grateful to people for being so good to me. You are all so good;
10: its so wicked of me to be so tired of everything I shall be all right
11: when I get back to Matjesfontein & throw myself into some big work,
12: not all these little things.
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Olive
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