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| Letter Reference | Colenso Papers, MSS. Afr. s. 1293/8, 16-17 |
| Archive | Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies, Rhodes House, University of Oxford |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 1 April 1919 |
| Address From | 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Sophie Colenso nee Frankland (m.1880) |
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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 Sophie Colenso nee Frankland (m.1880), 1 April 1919, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies, Rhodes House, University of Oxford, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
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The Project is grateful to the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, for allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of their Special Collections.
1: 9 Porchester Place
2: Edgeware Rd
3: ^London^
4: April 1st 1919
5:
6: Dear Mrs Colenso
7:
8: It is ages since I had any news of any of you. I often have wondered
9: how the world went with you. I hope if ever you are coming to town I
10: may see you.
11:
12: I am writing to ask a favour of you. I have a little niece, Mrs Scott
13: lately married to a Dr in the who’s been in the army. She is expecting
14: her first little baby next June & longs to get out of London for a
15: month or six weeks to a quiet country place, to rest. She wants much a
16: tiny cottage I have been trying to find her one every where, but tiny
17: country cottages seem almost impossible to get near London Do you
18: perhaps, by any chance know of one in or near Amersham? Or is there a
19: quiet country fied hotel there where she might get quarters. It would
20: be no use her going to a noisy town hotel, but sometimes little Inn’s
21: in a village are quite nice & restful.
22:
23: Please forgive my troubling you, but I know you won’t mind telling me
24: if you know of one.
25:
26: Give my kindest greetings to your daughters. I should so much like to
27: know how the world has gone with you all.
28:
29: Yours ever
30: Olive Schreiner
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