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| Letter Reference | Smuts A1/186/85 |
| Archive | National Archives Repository, Pretoria |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 8 August 1899 |
| Address From | 2 Primrose Terrace, Berea, Johannesburg, Transvaal |
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| Who To | Isie Smuts nee Krige |
| Other Versions | Rive 1987: 372 |
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 Isie Smuts nee Krige, 8 August 1899, National Archives Repository, Pretoria, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
Legend
The Project is grateful to the National Archives Repository, Pretoria, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Special Collections. Schreiner was resident in Johannesburg from December 1898 to late August 1899.
1: Aug 8th 1899
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Dear Mrs Smuts
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I am sending you the book I mentioned by my friend Ed Carpenter that I
6: am so fond of. I fancy you will like it. I have been ill ever since I
7: came back from Pretoria that day, never able to lie down at night with
8: asthma, or I would have come over to Pretoria.
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I am feeling so anxious & almost hopeless about public matter. We are
11: like sheep surrounded by Chamberlain, Rhodes, Uitlander wolves; but
12: sheep can sometimes give a good kick when they are fighting for their
13: lives.
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Much love to you & the little son.
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Yours ever
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Olive Schreiner
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Notation
The book by Carpenter that Schreiner refers to is either: Edward Carpenter (1885) Towards Democracy Manchester: John Heywood; or, Edward Carpenter (1887) England’s Ideal, and other papers on social subjects London: Swann Sonnenschein & Co. Rive's (1987) version of this letter is in a number of respects incorrect.
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