1 The Homestead
2 Kimberley
3 Oct 11 / 94
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5 Dear Fan
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7 Thankyou for your letter. I’m so sorry the little woman has had such
8a bad time. I suppose you will soon be going out to Kalk Bay now &
9that will build you all up.
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11 Cron returned the day before yesterday. It’s like having the sun in
12the house again to have him back. Thanks for your loving offer. I’m
13living on soda & milk at present & some days on pure soda, but I’ve
14a great longing for "louquats" & all you can get here are quite bad &
15dried up. If they are not over in Cape Town & still pretty cheap could
16you send me up 3 or 4 shillings worth. I shall return the basket at
17once. If you could tell Ellie the name of that old man in the gardens
18from whom used to get the louquats Elbert & Guy could pick them. And
19could you dear buy me a little "engelegte" fish; perhaps Lizzie your
20old servant could make me a little, or Hanna Gie could tell you the
21name of an old [wordmissing] she said made it nicely. I am Cron says he
22knows I won’t eat it when it comes, but I have such a longing for
23^fresh^ fish I feel as if I should be quite right if I could get it; &
24"engelegte" is the nearest. You can’t get fresh fish here in the
25shops it’s always bad. Thanks very much for the book: I’d just
26bought it a few days before. It tells many things I want to know.
27Thanks very much dear sis, for offering to help with the hemming &c;
28but if I begin in good time I shall get through with it all by hand.
29The Doctor says I must expect the little one about the beginning of
30April, but I think myself it will be earlier; anyhow I shall have all
31ready by the beginning of March. I don’t feel at all anxious about
32the trouble at the end; but I am very sorry about this continual
33sickness day & night, because I can’t help feeling that if I am thin
34& weak the baby will be so too.
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36 Dear I wish you & Will could take a little run up to Kimberley
37sometime. It will be very nice after the rain begins; & you would find
38the place interesting if you’ve never been here before. Our little
39tiny house is very nice, at least I like it very much. It is just a
40little over 3 miles out of Kimberley. I do as much walking as ever I
41can. I walked in & out of
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43 ^Kimberley the other day, but it was a little too far. Cron sends much
44love to you all. He never leaves off talking about the children.^
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46^I enclose £1 note. Please dear pay for the louquats & fish with it, &
47if there’s any over please keep it to buy fruit for me another time.
48Thank you so much for your letter. ^
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50 Love to all friends.
51 Olive
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53 ^Just had a letter from Mr Fort who says he is coming down this month
54most likely.^
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