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| Letter Reference | Autograph Letters Collection: Alys Pearsall Smith ALC/7/3/7 |
| Archive | National Women's Library, London |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Friday 29 June 1889 |
| Address From | Ladies Chambers, Chenies Street, Camden, London |
| Address To | 44 Grosvenor Road, Westminster, London |
| 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), 29 June 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 of the letter has been derived from the postmark on an attached envelope, which also provides the address this letter was sent to.
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Ladies' Chambers
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Chenies St
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Friday
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Dear Alys,
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Thanks so much for the money. The publisher now has promised to pay
8: her at once for the translation she has done, & if he does she'll have
9: plenty of money next week, if he doesn't she won't be able to return
10: it till October when he pays her surely.
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I can't get anyone who is quite able to take up & work that new
13: society idea yet. Perhaps I will in a few days. I wish Mrs Costelloe
14: could find some one. You see both of us are too busy with other things.
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Thank-you more than I can say for being so ready to help her.
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Yours always
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Olive Schreiner
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