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| Letter Reference | Smuts A1/193/86 |
| Archive | National Archives Repository, Pretoria |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 23 December 1910 |
| Address From | Portlock, Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Isie Smuts nee Krige |
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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 Isie Smuts nee Krige, 23 December 1910, National Archives Repository, Pretoria, 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 Archives Repository, Pretoria, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Special Collections.
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Portlock
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nr. Graaff Reinet
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23 December 1910
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My dear Isie
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I never wrote to thank you for the dear little box of cherries you
8: sent me because I was then ill, & just leaving de Aar. My husband & I
9: ate them together – quite fair – he half & I half – like two
10: babies! Its so sweet of you to think of me, Isie.
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I am up here among these high mountain tops staying with my friends
13: the Murrays on their farm. The cool air after the terrible heat of de
14: Aar soon revived me, & I am much better. For the first time for more
15: than a year I’ve been able to get to my writing again really which
16: is a great comfort. I hope you are having a very happy Xmas with Neef
17: Jan home again. Its hard you should have to be so much separated from
18: him. I know so well what you feel because I know what it is to me to
19: have to leave my home & husband every year. I still have a dream of
20: someday being able to finish my novel & buy a little farm up in the
21: mountains ^where we could live together^ - but I guess its only a dream.
22: But I’m very grateful to have found such a nice place to stay the
23: summer in. The Murrays are so kind & good & the three dear children
24: are such a joy to me. They are very busy in their school room today
25: making little Xmas presents for everybody. If your mother has come up
26: to spend Xmas with you please give her my love.
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Yours ever
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Auntie Olive
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This is a lovely farm you are right on the tip top of the mountain.
32: When you walk just a short way from the house you get to the edge, &
33: look far away over the valleys & plains.
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Notation
The novel which is is 'only a dream' Schreiner will finish is From Man to Man.
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