1 Wagenaars Kraal
2 Three Sisters
3 June 17 / 00
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5 Dear Friend
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7 I have just got your letter
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9 I am leaving for Beaufort West next Tuesday the 25th. If you are to
10arrange to go that day if you go by train, we might meet at Three
11Sisters; but I expect you’ll go by sea.
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13 My address in Beaufort West will be Mrs Kriel’s Boarding House
14Beaufort West.
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16 Pl I got a nice long letter from dear old Merriman & another from dear
17Mary Sauer. You know I don’t think its Merriman or or Sauer, (I’m
18sure its not Merriman) who are trying to get Sievewright back. It’s
19Hofmeyer. Merriman & Sauer I feel I might influence, because old Sauer
20has a heart, but Hofmeyr I can do nothing with; but if your brothers
21Sauer & Merriman stand out he dare not break up the party by bringing
22Sievewright back. I got such a splendid letter from my dear little
23sister-in-law today thanking me so for going to the Congress. I may
24run down to Cape Town just for one day during the session.
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26 Aren’t the Boers fighting magnificently. I always in this war have
27running in my mind that verse of the psalms "I will lift up mine eyes
28unto the hills from whence cometh my strength." I know that the wise
29men in Cape Town would think me mad, but I still feel sure, that at
30last the Transvaal will regain its independence. I have got the most
31fearful insulting & threatening letters from Port Elizabeth. I thought
32I was passed feeling such things, but the mean ness & cowardice of
33these letters seems to make life darker. I have written two long
34letters to my brother. I don’t argue with him: I just express my
35views & leave them to work. Thats the best way with him.
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37 I will send you Cron’s last letter. You will love it ^about his visit
38to Burn's birth place^ They had an awful time at Aberdeen & Edinburgh.
39It is a marvel he was not killed. I sometimes have a feeling I shall
40never see him again. I never knew you could miss a human being as I
41miss him. Wire me if there any chance of your passing Beaufort West
42while I am there because I want to send my type-writer to Cape Town to
43type write an article for me.
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45 Did I tell you I’d been rather ill since I got back. I got
46insensible one day, & they had to pack warm water bottles round me &
47cover me with with cushions to get the circulation back. I didn’t
48know anything for half an hour.
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50 Good night
51 Olive
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53 ^I have found out that instead of £7.15.6 the fare to Graaff Reinet
54ought to have been £3.15.6. I am going to get the money back.^
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