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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/9 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Wednesday 25 September 1912 |
| Address From | De Aar, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Frances (‘Fan’) Schreiner nee Reitz |
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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 Frances (‘Fan’) Schreiner nee Reitz, 25 September 1912, UCT Manuscripts & Archives, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
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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.
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De Aar
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Wednesday
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Dear Fan
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I hope all has gone well with May. It may be she was quite out in her
7: count – people often are with a first child. It must be an anxious
8: time for her mother. When Will wrote he was coming I was just going to
9: write & ask you if you would not come as far as de Aar & stay with me
10: while they went on; but I felt sure after I got you letter you would
11: feel you must go to be with Mrs ?Devenish.
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It was fine having the two here. If you had been here too I’ve a
14: nice little stretcher I could have put for Ol Boy in the study. I’m
15: so glad it was nice weather while yesterday & today are very hot. The
16: first real summer weather we’ve had. I couldn’t sleep last night
17: so at 5 I was out watering in the garden, At six I made so tea for old
18: man Cron & he got up. By eight o’clock I had nearly all the garden
19: watered. I have to do my gardening in the early morning in the summer
20: as I can’t go out in the heat. I would very much like to have some
21: of those nice little vegetable marrow seeds, dear. I got a note from
22: Ursie this morning, so happy in Holland but says its very flat & she
23: longs for mountains. So do I, at de Aar!
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I wish Bill was up here with the other young Barristers. Will Stuart
26: is here & told Cron he was to be married in two months – but I’ve
27: not seem him yet.
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Good bye dear. I shall think of you next Wednesday. It will be hard to
30: part with your boy
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Olive
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