Olive Schreiner Letters Online

Letter Reference	View Jeffreys A1657/266/1
Archive	Western Cape Provincial Archives and Records Service, Cape Town
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	nd
Address From	na
Address To
Who To	Mrs Hadden
Other Versions

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 Mrs Hadden, Western Cape Provincial Archives and Records Service, Cape Town, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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1:  Dear Mrs Hadden
2: 
3:  Thank you very much I should have liked to go, but have just got a new
4:  boy in this afternoon, & must get him into the way of doing things for
5:  the first few days, so can’t go out.
6: 
7:  What a very nice interesting face that Mrs Greenley’s had I met at
8:  your house.
9: 
10:  Yours sincerely
11:  Olive Schreiner
12: 

Notation
There is no information which enables this letter to be assigned a date.

Letter Reference	View Jeffreys A1657/266/2
Archive	Western Cape Provincial Archives and Records Service, Cape Town
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	nd
Address From	na
Address To
Who To	Mrs Hadden
Other Versions

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 Mrs Hadden, Western Cape Provincial Archives and Records Service, Cape Town, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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The Project is grateful to the Western Cape Archives & Records Service for allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letters.

1:  Dear Mrs Hadden
2: 
3:  No, I have no “At Home” day. My health is so uncertain that all my
4:  friends might often come & I not be able to see them. But couldn’t you
5:  & Mr Hadden come down sometimes in the evening? We are in every
6:  evening, as I am seldom able to go out at night, & I think one enjoys
7:  a chat in the evening better than any time. I am returning the books,
8:  with many thanks, & also many thanks for the lovely flowers.
9: 
10:  Yours very sincerely
11:  Olive Schreiner
12: 
13:  Please tell Mr Hadden I have some more of Carpenters books he can have
14:  when he has done with those, if he would like to see them. Our books
15:  have just arrived.
16: 

Notation
There is no information which enables this letter to be assigned a date.

Letter Reference	View Jeffreys A1657/266/3
Archive	Western Cape Provincial Archives and Records Service, Cape Town
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	31 May 1894
Address From	Krantz Plaats, Halesowen, Eastern Cape
Address To
Who To	Charley (Charlie) Earp
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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 Charley (Charlie) Earp, 31 May 1894, Western Cape Provincial Archives and Records Service, Cape Town, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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1:  Krantz Plaats
2:  ^P.O. Haleowen^
3:  May 31 / 94
4: 
5:  Dear Charley
6: 
7:  Would you do me the great favour of address^ing^ the enclosed letter to
8:  the best land ^agent^ in Victoria West. We should like to get a farm
9:  some where in that part. Do you know if any farm near the railway in
10:  the neighbourhood of Nel’s Port at which Iwe might get? This part of
11:  the country does not suit my health at all.
12: 
13:  It would be very nice to be nearer you all. As I hope you are all well.
14:  I should so much like to see your little ones.
15: 
16:  Cron sends his hearty greetings to you all; he is very anxious to meet
17:  his new relations.
18: 
19:  Your loving small aunt
20:  Olive Schreiner
21: 

Notation
An accompanying letter dated 1960 from L.J. Philip comments that Schreiner’s letter is addressed to Charles Edwin Earp, who was married to her niece Emma.