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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/78
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter DateThursday July 1918
Address From9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London
Address To
Who ToWilliam Philip ('Will') Schreiner
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Legend
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 month and year have been written on this letter in an unknown hand.
1 Thurs-day
2 9 Porchester Place
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4 Dear Laddie
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6 You may not have seen the enclosed cutting. Return it in the addressed
7envelope.
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9 Did you see the article by the Japanese man in the Evening Standard (I
10think of Monday) saying they would be quite ?willing to come & crush
11the Sinn Feiners in Ireland for England!! Read it if you’ve not done so.
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13 I’m going to buy a chess board – but its not much fun doing
14problems by myself as with you.
15
16 I had a lovely letter from Ursie from Paris.
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18 Love to you dear
19 Ol
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21 Cron always sends love to you. He was at Muizenburg when he wrote, at
22the Grand Hotel.
23
24 Pollock is coming to see me this afternoon.
25
26 This air chokes one completely
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Notation
An article about Japan cannot be found in the Evening Standard around the date of this letter.