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| Letter Reference | Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/80 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 1 July 1904 |
| Address From | Hanover, Northern Cape |
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| Who To | Effie Hemming m. Brown (1903) |
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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 Effie Hemming m. Brown (1903), 1 July 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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July 1st 1904
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Darling Effie
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I feel so anxious about Guy from Aunt Het’s letter got today. Do
7: drop me a line or get Arthur to just telling me how he is. I know Aunt
8: Het has no time to write.
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How is our Baby? Still growing so finely?
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Cron says he is going to build on two little rooms to this house this
13: year a little sitting room & spare bedroom & then you must come with
14: Baby & stay with me. If only we can get the typhoid germs killed out
15: here. I have been ill with a curious vomiting & diarrhoea ever since I
16: came back, & Cron seems getting it today. Many people have it here who
17: have not typhoid: but we are going to have pipes laid for the water
18: they say. Cron saw your father when
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20: ^he was in Johannesburg last week & says he was looking very well,
21: indeed better than he ever saw him.^
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Good bye darling child
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Your small aunt Olive
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