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Letter Reference	Olive Schreiner BC16/Box8/Fold4/MMPr/AssortedCorres/FredPL/1
Archive	University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	3 October 1905
Address From	Hanover, Northern Cape
Address To
Who To	Frederick ('Fred') Pethick-Lawrence
Other Versions
Permissions	Please read before using or citing this transcription 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 Frederick ('Fred') Pethick-Lawrence, 3 October 1905, UCT Manuscripts & Archives, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
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. A typescript only of this letter is available. The transcription here follows this typescript and includes any uncertain dates, ellipses, mistakes and so on.

1 Hanover
2 October 3rd, 1905
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4 I am enclosing the note for Malan in case you do not know him. His
5private address is Kloof Street. I do not know the number but you will
6easily find his house right up at the top where the tram stops, if
7he’s not at his office.
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9 You came out with my brother Will and my boy Oliver, so there is no
10need for me to send you an introduction to him.
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12 I hope you have arrived safely. No doubt I shall see in Friday’s
13paper that you have done so. I will be very very glad to see you here.
14Your wife I am sure I shall love from what I have heard of her.
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