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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/18 |
| Archive | National English Literary Museum, Grahamstown |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 15 June 1920 |
| Address From | 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Minnie or Mimmie Murray nee Parkes |
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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 Minnie or Mimmie Murray nee Parkes, 15 June 1920, National English Literary Museum, Grahamstown, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
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The Project is grateful to the National English Literary Museum (NELM) for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections.
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Address - 9 Porchester Place
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Edgeware Rd
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London
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June 15th 1920
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My darling Friend
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Soon you will be losing your Andre, but she will not be going far from
10: you, that's the great comfort. Is she to be married in September? Are
11: Bobbie & Kathie in Cape Town? I am sailing for Africa on the 13th of
12: August - I think the ship is the Dunvegan. I have taken my passage. I
13: do hope you will be coming down to Cape Town soon. I do long so to see
14: your face.
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You know I dread going out to the Cape. The dear voice & the dear face
17: that were always the first to greet me in the Docks when I landed, I
18: shall never hear or see again. Africa will never be the same to me
19: again he was my great stand by in life. And if ever I go to Graaff
20: Reinet there will be another dear & beloved soul missing. But I must
21: go. I can't face another winter alone in this room. I don't know where
22: I shall get rooms in Cape Town but just for the first days I'll go to
23: my little niece Mrs Scott at Birzana Plumstead, & Ruth Alexander is
24: looking out to try & find rooms rooms. Perhaps next winter I will be
25: able to come up to Graaff Reinet for a little time. Do write & tell me
26: all your news. If you able to write when you get this I will still get
27: it before I sail in August. If Bob & Kathie are in Cape Town please
28: ask them to come & see me if they have time. How is the farming going
29: on? How far will Andre be from you?
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Good bye, my dear dear love to you
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Olive
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I think I told you my dear friend Miss Greene had died of cancer. She
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