Olive Schreiner Letters Online

Letter Reference	Milner Papers, dep. 46, ff. 183-184
Archive	Special Collections, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	3 July 1919
Address From	9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London
Address To
Who To	Alfred Milner
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1:  9 Porchester Place
2:  Edgware Rd
3:  W.
4:  July 3rd 1919
5: 
6:  Dear Lord Milner
7: 
8:  My sister-law showed me your note to her. I valued it more than all
9:  the hundreds of letters we got from people who had always agreed with
10:  him. It was beautiful to me that you have always realized his
11:  singleness of aim, & the absolute absence of self-seeking in his
12:  nature.
13: 
14:  I suppose no two human beings differ more widely in their view as to
15:  what the supreme ends of human life on earth are, than you & I. But I
16:  have always believed in your absolute sincerity & faithfulness to your
17:  own sense of duty. As one nears the end of the passage, one feels more
18:  & more that nothing else matters in the characters of men & women.
19: 
20:  Yours very sincerely
21:  Olive Schreiner
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