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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/26
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date15 June 1912
Address FromCape Town, Western Cape
Address ToChambers, St Georges Street, Cape Town, Western Cape
Who ToWilliam Philip ('Will') Schreiner
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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 date of this letter has been derived from the postmark on an attached envelope, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner was in Cape Town from early to mid June 1912 for the funerals of her sister Ettie Stakesby-Lewis and her mother-in-law.
1 Dear old Laddie
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3 Thanks so much for all your kindness.
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5 Please find enclosed cheque for £12.10 = £10.00 that you sent me &
6£2.10 for the cart I hired to Blauwberg. I didn’t pay the man as I
7thought accounts might get mixed & he might charge you again for it.
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9 Thine ever
10 Ol
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12 If you present it on the 2nd of August the money will be in the bank.
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