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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold2/1909/46 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 5 November 1909 |
| Address From | Cape Town, Western Cape |
| Address To | Sandown Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape |
| Who To | Lucy Molteno nee Mitchell |
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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 Lucy Molteno nee Mitchell, 5 November 1909, UCT Manuscripts & Archives, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
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The Project is grateful to Manuscripts and Archives, University of Cape Town, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Manuscripts and Archives Collections. The address this letter was sent to is provided by an attached envelope.
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Cape Town
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Nov 5th 1909
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Dear Lucy
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I shall like so much to come on Thursday. I do hope your cold is quite
7: better. I am very anxious about Anna Purcell, & am going out on Sunday
8: to see her. I can’t bear those I love to have any bad chest attacks
9: because of what it so often leaves behind. Anna though not very strong
10: has had such fine health on the whole. I am looking forward so to
11: seeing your children. I wish we lived nearer each other that I could
12: get to really know them. I think one has to learn to know children
13: just as you do grown up people Its only slowly they unfold their
14: little selves to you. I am glad Mrs Murray is coming. She is a woman I
15: am greatly drawn to. Her two little girls seem to me so fine &
16: interesting. The little boy is prettier than the girls; but doesn’t
17: interest me so much; he’s more like all other children.
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Good bye. Why don’t you call me Olive as Betty & Alice Greene & all
20: my friends do? I’d like it so. I’m so much older than you; but all
21: my friends call me Olive.
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Good bye, dear. Be careful of yourself. Don’t go out when its damp
24: at all. As soon as one feels stronger one always thinks one can do
25: anything but one can’t
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Olive Schreiner
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