1 Hanover
2 Aug 10th 1905
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4 Dear Ed
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6 I got a letter the other day from a Miss Darby; who says she is a
7friend of yours. So many people say they are your dear friends (like
8the Swans & others) that I am always a little doubtful!! She is with
9Miss Hobhouse.
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11 I’ve had a great joy this week. My dear old friend Dr John Brown,
12once of Burnley came & spent a day here. In the five years I have been
13here, once my sister came for a day, & once Miss Molteno & Miss Green
14for a day, & those are all the friends faces I have seen here in five
15years, & I have only five times left the village, so you can think
16what a red letter day it was. I don’t think the happiness of such
17happy things end too when they are over because you always have the
18memory & it makes everything beautiful. I wonder where Kate Salt is
19now & if you ever see her.
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21 I’m very well & my dear little Kaffir is a great interest to me. We
22are having a great deal of ice & snow here still. Cron is away in Cape
23Town for ten days, but returns the day after tomorrow.
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25 I hear the Lawrence’s are coming out to South Africa. Do you know
26them. I fear I shan’t see them, as they are not likely to come to
27this out of the way place. I hope they will learn something true about
28the way they are treating the Chinamen, & about the desire of the
29Colonist to have a
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31^native way war to bring money into the country. They might be of some
32use; but sometimes it seems to me there not much to be done in this
33world to prevent things & set them right, you must just let things
34drift & drift, till at last wrong doing & oppression bring their own
35punishment - & they do bring it! Though I tarry long saith the Lord. ^
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37 Good bye dear old friend
38 Olive
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40 How is my old Bob getting on? I’ve not heard from him for such a
41long long time
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