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| Letter Reference | Autograph Letters Collection: Alys Pearsall Smith ALC/7/3/8 |
| Archive | National Women's Library, London |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | April 1888 |
| Address From | Hotel Oxford et Cambridge, Rue d' Alger, Paris |
| Address To | |
| 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), April 1888, National Women's Library, London, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
Legend
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 year has been written on the letter in an unknown hand, but misdated as 1889. Schreiner stayed in the Hotel Oxford et Cambridge in early April 1888.
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Your sweets came to me when a little girl artist friend of mine was
2: with me, so I laid in the bed & she sat in the arm chair & we put the
3: box between us on a chair before the fire, & picked out the ones we
4: little liked best, & talked about Babies & names & said what a good
5: thing it was you didn't call your baby Veronica.
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I'm coming to London very soon to finish my course at the woman's
8: hospital in Endle St. I shall have no time to go out at all, but will
9: you sometimes come & see me & show me your two little ones & I'll show
10: you all mine.
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I hope your cousin is better. I wish I'd seen the Baby at Mentone
13: before I left. His aunt said he was lovely. Your cousins were both so
14: kind to me. I wonder if many American men are like your cousin Tom. I
15: hope you had a good time at ?Nancy. There are some nice pictures there.
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Good bye
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Olive Schreiner
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Hotel Oxford et Cambridge
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Rue d' Alger
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Paris
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