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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1894/7
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date21 April 1894
Address FromKrantz Plaats, Halesowen, Eastern Cape
Address To
Who ToBill Schreiner
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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. The date has been written on this letter in an unknown hand. Schreiner was resident at Krantz Plaats from 25 February to the start of August 1894.
1 My darling Master Will
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3 I’ve just remembered it was your birthday this week. I send you a
4card.
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6 I bath here in the great pool every day, & the spring right out of the
7water sometimes quite close to me. I will send you a picture of the
8pool & Uncle Cron & myself standing by it. You are getting a very old
9man, eight years now. I remember my eighth birthday very well. Mother
10gave me a wax doll, & little Joseph Veritz ate all the wax off it's
11face about ten minutes after I got it. I hope no misfortune overtook
12you on your birthday. Did you have a party.
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14 Give my love to all cousin Keetje’s children when you see them, & to
15Dot & my Ollie boy. Tell him his Auntie will give him a little tame
16"bokkie" to play with if he comes to see her. Uncle Cron sends his
17love to you; he says he wishes we had all of you children here. I
18count the goats in & out of the kraal every morning
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20^& every evening, but its not very easy to count them right they run
21about so: the sheep are much easier. I hope you are getting on well
22with your lessons old man. ^
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24 Your little auntie
25 Olive
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