1 Hanover
2 May 25 / 02
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4 My dear Dr Brown
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6 I hope you are all having a good time in England, but I hope you will
7all get safely back to some sunnier place before the winter sets in.
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9 We are having just glorious weather here, sharp frost at night so that
10the water left in the yard is solid ice to the bottom of the can; but
11in the day the sun shines & it is bright & warm as long as one is out
12in the sun. To-day was Sunday so Cron didn’t go to his office & we
13took a kettle & a frying pan & some chops & coffee, & spent most of
14the day on the other side of a little kopje outside of the village
15where we couldn’t see the village, which was nice; it was all veld &
16we were so happy. All one’s cares seem so small out in the veld,
17publishers & everything else! A sort of "God’s in his heaven All’s
18well with the world," is what one feels.
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20 J My meerkats are well, & sweeter, & dearer every day. The two dogs
21are well except that Neta my best beloved has got rheumatism in her
22hind leg & its getting drawn up, so that she now always walks on three
23legs. I am going to try giving her ?salisilate of soda, but I have
24less & less faith in drugs for men or dogs. We have had an out break
25of vaccination here, & the consequence is that
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27^many people are seriously ill. The ?quiet I’m agin’ vaccination
28you know! I’ve been able to work a little at my 6th chapter the last
29days again, & hope I shall get on a bit, if this fine weather
30continues. ^
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32 This is all the news I can write tonight but if we were all sitting
33together in the body what great buck-waggon loads I should have to
34give you.
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36 Good bye. I hope you’ll have a real fine time in England. Any how it
37will be nice to see dear little ?Jully again.
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39 Love to you all,
40 Olive
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