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| Letter Reference | Autograph Letters Collection: Alys Pearsall Smith ALC/7/3/3 |
| Archive | National Women's Library, London |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Thursday 25 January 1889 |
| Address From | Mentone, France |
| Address To | Hotel du Louvre, Mentone, France |
| Who To | Alys Pearsall Smith m. Russell (1894) |
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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 Alys Pearsall Smith m. Russell (1894), 25 January 1889, National Women's Library, London, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
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The Project is grateful to the National Women's Library, London, for allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Autograph Collections. The date had been derived from the postmark on an attached envelope, which also provides the address the letter was sent to. Schreiner stayed in Mentone in January and February 1889.
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Thursday afternoon
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Dear Miss Smith
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Ive just got your note (letters take nearly as long to cross Mentone
6: as to go to England!) I'd like to see George MacDonalds forehead again
7: but I think I must settle down at my new home. Will you come & see me
8: there, it's so close, even after dinner one could run in? Is your
9: cousin staying at the Hotel or with her friends? If she's at the Hotel
10: it would be delightful to me to go & see her sometimes while you are
11: gone.
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Yours always
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Olive Schreiner.
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