Olive Schreiner Letters Online

Letter Reference	General Missionary Commission, Folder 25: Letters to Mr. J. Henderson MS 14, 847/2
Archive	Cory Library, Rhodes University, Grahamstown
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	26 December 1911
Address From	Villa Flandre, Newlands, Cape Town, Western Cape
Address To
Who To	James Henderson
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1:  Villa Flandre
2:  Newlands
3:  Dec 26th 1911
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5:  Dear Sir
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7:  I find the letter I kept at de Aar to be posted to you was never sent.
8:  I wrote at once before leaving de Aar to tell you how much I regretted
9:  that my health would not allow of my travelling about the country in
10:  the summer, but that anything I could do from Cape Town (where I shall
11:  be for the next three months) I should be most glad to do.
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13:  The subject of the so called Black-Peril is one that interests me
14:  deeply. My feeling of course is that peril which has long over
15:  shadowed this country, is one which exists for all dark skinned women
16:  at the hands of white men.
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18:  If I can do anything in Cape Town to assist in any way I shall be glad.
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20:  Yours sincerely
21:  Olive Schreiner
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