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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/79
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter DateTuesday April 1917
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. Schreiner was resident at Porchester Place from early April 1917 until August 1920, when she left Britain for South Africa.
1 Tuesday
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3 Dear Laddie
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5 I know how much your old heart must be feeling this heat. Don’t
6shorten your tiny visit into the country because Ursie is coming on
7Sunday.
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9 I’ll go to meet her at the station if Fan will telephone me the time
10she is expected. It will be good to see her.
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12 Don’t trouble to answer this but let me know by phone if I can help.
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14 Ol
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