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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/4
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter DateJanuary 1900
Address FromCape Town, Western Cape
Address To
Who ToFrances (‘Fan’) Schreiner nee Reitz
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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. The month and year have been written on this letter in an unknown hand. The address the letter was written from is indicated by content. Schreiner stayed in Cape Town from late November 1899 to mid February 1900.
1 My darling old sister
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3 Thank you so much for all your goodness & the happy, happy time I
4spent with you.
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6 I’ll be coming out to see you all at St James’s on Tues-day. I
7should only be one more to bother on Monday, so I’m going to the
8Sauers
with the Innes.
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10 Olive
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