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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/10 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 20 April 1907 |
| Address From | Hanover, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Betty Molteno |
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The manuscript of this letter by Olive Schreiner belongs to the Archive referenced above; its ownership of the original should be acknowledged by referencing the letter as indicated: Copyright transcription: © Olive Schreiner Letters Project. This transcription can be freely used as long as copyright is acknowledged and it is referenced using the following citation: ‘Olive Schreiner to Betty Molteno, 20 April 1907, UCT Manuscripts & Archives, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
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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 name of the addressee of this letter is indicated by salutation and content.
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Hanover
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April 20th 1907
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Dear Friend
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I wonder if you are back alone in Switzerland? I do hope you & Alice
7: will soon be together. I wonder if you have you seen Anna Purcell or
8: my dear little niece Dot at Newnham, if you have been in England.
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Dear, to me the question of woman emancipation in all ways seems
11: unreadable just one of the root questions. Of course men doe must
12: fight for it if they are freedom loving & ?humanism, just as women
13: must fight for men. The whole question seems to me not one of sex but
14: of common human ^duty &^ right. The insult seems to me ^to be,^ to take
15: any notice of ^the^ sex ^of an individual^ in things which have nothing to
16: do with the reproductive function or sex. We have started a little
17: society at Cape Town which I hope will grow.
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I am much better since that little four days visit to the shop at Port
20: Elizabeth. We stayed at Kind Edward’s Mansions, those superb new
21: buildings just behind the Lady Donkin memorial, & I was better that
22: there than I’ve been any where for years. It’s so high & dry &
23: airy, & you see nothing but the sea & the ships. If you & Miss Greene
24: were still living there I should go & stay in P.E. for months. I’m
25: back here alone again but much better for the change.
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Good bye, my dear one. Love to you both.
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Olive
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