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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/17
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypePostcard
Letter Date6 October 1919
Address From9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London
Address ToTrevone, Padstow, Cornwall
Who ToBetty Molteno
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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 postcard, which is part of its Manuscripts and Archives Collections. The date of this postcard is provided by the postmark, and the name of the addressee and the address it was sent to are on its front. Schreiner was resident at Porchester Place from early April 1917 until August 1920, when she left Britain for South Africa.
1Lucy Molteno came to see me yesterday afternoon & is coming to tea
2tomorrow. She is here alone. Mrs Molteno is coming down soon, & your
3brother is at Parklands. Ed Carpenter came to see me yesterday & he &
4I & Isabella Ford went to have lunch together.
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6^Much love^
7Olive
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