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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.43 |
| Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Tuesday 15 December 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, 15 December 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 date has been written on this letter in an unknown hand.
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Tuesday
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Cape Town.
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I'm here, dear. All the way down in the train last night I was looking
5: forward to seeing you; & Miss Conybeare & my brother's children; but
6: you most.
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On Tuesday I'm going to stay with Miss Conybeare. till I for the
9: present I'm at my brothers I shall see how it suits me at Mowbray. If
10: it does, I may stay there till Miss Conybeare goes on the 1st of Jan.
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I'm so tired, dear, I've been working so hard. This rest seems so
13: delightful.
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Olive
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P.S.
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Did I send you a letter by mistake that was intended for Miss
20: Conybeare? I sent her a wrong letter by mistake. ^& must have sent
21: her's to someone else^ It was one I would not for any thing have had
22: fall into anyone elses hands. Do set my mind at rest about it.
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OS
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