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| Letter Reference | Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/74 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 15 January 1904 |
| Address From | Hanover, Northern Cape |
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| Who To | Henrietta (‘Ettie’) Schreiner m. Stakesby Lewis (1891) |
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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 Henrietta (‘Ettie’) Schreiner m. Stakesby Lewis (1891), 15 January 1904, 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.
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Hanover
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Jan 15th 1904
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My darling Ettie
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Thank you for your letter dear. In a way I am better.
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If I should wire for the nurse darling the Miss ?Laglor would do well:
9: I wouldn’t have any one come here if I could help it. Day after day
10: more people fall ill of typhoid & diphtheria. Its like the city of
11: dreadful night. I am most sorry for the poor natives, who have less
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Good bye my darling I hope if ever you die I will die too abut the
15: same time. I should not like living in the world without you.
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Olive
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^One of the Doctors is down too with typhoid & they have sent for
19: another. Every day there are fresh ones.^
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^I find the ?agents company never sent up that packet of mixed foods we
22: left there for them & send up with stationary I opened the stationary
23: packet today to find the food, but it is not there. Could some one ask
24: for it. Darling tell me how you all are. I think so much of Guy.^
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