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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/19
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter DateAugust 1907
Address FromBeaufort West, Western Cape
Address To
Who ToBetty Molteno
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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. The name of the addressee is indicated by salutation and content. Content indicates that the letter was written from Mrs Kriel's boarding house in Beaufort West, Western Cape. Western Cape.
1Dear Friend
2
3You know I have never trusted ?Haryson or liked him, & never shall
4believe in him. Whether this is true or not one cannot say. He is a
5self-seeking man.
6
7I think Miss Greene’s poem is good. She ought to print it in the
8news “News” by “an English Woman.”
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10The Kriels are all well & wish to be remembered. I have got a little
11dark room, & think I shall go on to Hanover if I can hear of rooms
12there.
13
14Good bye, my friend
15Olive
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17I enclose Miss Greenes poem
18
Notation
Which particular 'Miss Greene's poem' is referred to cannot be established.