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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/33
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter DateTuesday 27 May 1908
Address FromMatjesfontein, Western Cape
Address To
Who ToWilliam Philip ('Will') Schreiner
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Legend
The Project is grateful to Manuscripts and Archives, University of Cape Town, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Manuscripts and Archives Collections. The date has been written on this letter in an unknown hand. Schreiner stayed in Matjesfontein from late April to late May 1908.
1 Tuesday night
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3 Dear Laddie
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5 I enclose a note Con Lytton enclosed in her’s to me of this week.
6You & my dear little sister will be glad to see what Lady Lytton says
7Mrs Sedgwick told her of our Dot.
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9 I leave tomorrow for de Aar.
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11 When do you pass?
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13 Good bye, my dear Laddy. Take care of yourself.
14 Ol
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16 I see you’ve started a society. Do you take in women?? I’ll join.
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Notation
The enclosed note is no longer attached.