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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/9 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Wednesday 21 February 1900 |
| Address From | Wagenaars Kraal, Three Sisters, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Frances (‘Fan’) Schreiner nee Reitz |
| Other Versions | |
| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| 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.
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Wagenaar’s Kraal
2 Via Three Sisters
3 Wednesday
4
5 Dear Fan
6
7 I got here this morning. There will they say be no chance of getting
8news from the station till next Saturday evening. What may not have
9happened between last Monday night & then. Please write to me
10sometimes. If I find I can’t Netta here as there as there are a great
11many big dogs would you mind my sending her down to you while I am
12here. I will get her as soon as I am in a place were I can keep her. I
13know she will be an awful trouble, but I don’t know what else to do. I
14keep her chained up in my room.
15
16 Thanks so much dear old sister for all your goodness & love towards me.
17 You are always in my mind. Good bye my love to all: if I feel more
18fit tomorrow I’m going to write to Will. Logan & the lowest & most
19miserable crowd of people I have seen since I left Johannesburg
20
21 ^were in the train with me.
22
23 Olive^
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2 Via Three Sisters
3 Wednesday
4
5 Dear Fan
6
7 I got here this morning. There will they say be no chance of getting
8news from the station till next Saturday evening. What may not have
9happened between last Monday night & then. Please write to me
10sometimes. If I find I can’t Netta here as there as there are a great
11many big dogs would you mind my sending her down to you while I am
12here. I will get her as soon as I am in a place were I can keep her. I
13know she will be an awful trouble, but I don’t know what else to do. I
14keep her chained up in my room.
15
16 Thanks so much dear old sister for all your goodness & love towards me.
17 You are always in my mind. Good bye my love to all: if I feel more
18fit tomorrow I’m going to write to Will. Logan & the lowest & most
19miserable crowd of people I have seen since I left Johannesburg
20
21 ^were in the train with me.
22
23 Olive^
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