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| Letter Reference | Edward Carpenter 359/100 |
| Archive | Sheffield Archives, Archives & Local Studies, Sheffield |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Sunday May 1914 |
| Address From | 30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, Kensington, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Edward Carpenter |
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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 Edward Carpenter, May 1914, Sheffield Libraries, Archives & Information, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
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The Project is grateful to the Sheffield Archives, Sheffield Libraries, Archives and Information Services, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Archive Collections. The month and year have been written on this letter in an unknown hand.
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30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace
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Sunday
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Dear Ed
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I’m leaving on Wednesday night for Nauheim If you could come on
7: Tuesday evening I’d be so glad. Who knows when I shall see your face
8: again. I’m pretty bad old man I’ve got a stone in the kidney as
9: well as my heart Good bye
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Olive
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I was at the gate & saw the police knocking down the women - but why
14: oh why do the women use force. Force must be met by force. Don’t you
15: think so.
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