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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold4/Jan-June1915/20
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date19 April 1915
Address FromKensington Palace Mansions, De Vere Gardens, Kensington, London
Address To102 Banbury Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Who ToMargaret Gillett nee Clark
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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 has been written on this letter in an unknown hand. The letter is on printed headed notepaper and the address it was sent to is provided by an attached envelope.
1Telephone: 3675 Kensington.
2Telegrams: Apartment, London.
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4Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,
5De Vere Gardens, W.
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7Dear Mrs Gillet
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9Your sympathetic letter was such a joy to me. I shall much like to
10come some time in May even if only for a day.
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12If I can, I am going to Holland on Saturday to the woman’s
13conference. ?but
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15Many thanks. I hope the new tiny one flourishes.
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17Yours ever
18Olive Schreiner
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20If ever I should leave this place my perminant address in London is
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22c/o Standard Bank
2311 Clements Lane
24Lombard Street
25London C.
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27^but I am not thinking of leaving just now.^
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