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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold4/1918/24
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date31 August 1918
Address FromLlandrindod Wells, Wales
Address To
Who ToMargaret Gillett nee Clark
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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 Margaret Gillett nee Clark, 31 August 1918, UCT Manuscripts & Archives, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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1:  c/o Dr Parker
2:  Llandrindod Wells
3:  Wales
4:  J Aug 31st 1918
5: 
6:  Dear Mrs Gillett
7: 
8:  I had a letter from Nell Van Heerden telling me of her delightful time
9:  with you. She gave me her London address 104 Ebury Street I wrote to
10:  her there but the letter is returned to me “Not known at 104 Ebury
11:  Street
.” Could you perhaps send the letter on to her which I enclose
12:  unreadable find that not fully addressed; if you know her address. I
13:  had a hope of coming to Oxford myself this summer; but when once I got
14:  here it seemed difficult to move again. Will you perhaps be visiting
15:  London during the winter? I should so much like to see you. You have
16:  two little ones now have you not? I once spent some weeks in the
17:  summer at
18: 
19:  ^Banbury Rd.^
20: 
21:  Yours ever
22:  Olive Schreiner


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