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| Letter Reference | Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/81 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 1 August 1904 |
| Address From | Hanover, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| 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), 1 August 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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Aug 1st 1904
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My darling old Etty
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The 7th will be your birthday. I hope you will be spending it at
7: Leuwrivier Mills & resting with both your boys near you. Do try & rest
8: really for a little time dear one. It is such a comfort to think the
9: Highlands is off your hands
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Have you quite given up all idea of going to Balfour this year? I have maybe
12: If I go it must be before the 21st or 22nd of August at latest. Neta
13: ^Neta^ has got cancer in the breast & I am going to take her down to
14: Cape Town. My return ticket for Cape Town expires on the 7th of
15: September & I must go as soon as I can if I am able.
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I could not have gone this unreadable last month if you had been able.
18: A strange dead dazed state is upon me. I seem to be going about more
19: dead than alive, so torpid. unreadable
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Good bye, my darling old sister. I hope you are resting. Don’t
22: trouble to write more than a Post Card in reply if you are trying to
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Olive.
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27: ^I am ?sad The ?drawers & things came all right. I was just going to
28: write that evening to tell you to keep the ?drawers. I shan’t be
29: here for very long & they will only have to go back again. In one of
30: mothers gloves I found 3d in the finger she had no doubt put it in
31: some time when she went to church long ago. She always put her
32: collection money in her glove.
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I hope the air will do Guy good.
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Good bye dear one
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Olive
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