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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box8/Fold4/MMPr/AssortedCorres/FredPL/37 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date |
After Start: April 1918
; Before End: May 1918 |
| Address From | 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Frederick ('Fred') Pethick-Lawrence |
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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 Frederick ('Fred') Pethick-Lawrence, April 1918, UCT Manuscripts & Archives, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
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. A typescript only of this letter is available. The transcription here follows this typescript and includes any uncertain dates, ellipses, mistakes and so on. The Molteno nephew referred to is George Murray, son of Schreiner correspondent Caroline Murray. He married his cousin Margaret Molteno and then left for the front; he was killed in mid April 1918, thus the dating of this letter.
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same address also nd
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I am so glad to see you are going to stand for Hastings: I do hope you
5: will get in. Thank you so much for the articles you’ve sent me and
6: the valuable book of treaties. My dear friends the Percy Moltenos have
7: just lost their nephew who married their only daughter nine weeks ago.
8: I have known him since he was two weeks old. Everything seems to smell
9: of death and evil. I hate war more and more. Nearly all the men I have
10: known who have gone to the front have been killed. South Africa is
11: depleted of her young men.
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Goodbye. Will peace never come?
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