Olive Schreiner Letters Online

Letter Reference	Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/48
Archive	University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Friday October 1901
Address From	Hanover, Northern Cape
Address To
Who To	Effie Hemming m. Brown (1903)
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1:  Hanover
2:  Friday night
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4:  Darling Effie,
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6:  I suppose mother leaves Cape Town tomorrow for Grahamstown & that the
7:  week after next if mother carries out her plan she will be passing
8:  here with Grannie.
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10:  Please write & tell me exactly the plans that I may try to arrange to
11:  meet you at Hanover Rd. the weather here is absolutely perfect & I am
12:  expecting great things for Grannie from the change to this high dry
13:  air, at this time of the year perfect I enclose a PO order for ten
14:  shillings: please dear when come bring me 10 boxes of Philippe de
15:  ?Canands sardines 1/- a box. You remember I got some in the little
16:  green grocers shop where the nice woman was in Bathurst St, where we
17:  got the chillies & butter & other things. I think that is the only
18:  place in Grahamstown where they are to be got. Also please with regard
19:  to the other 10/ I sent. After paying Mrs Rudd the 4/3 there will be
20:  5/9 over please buy me for it four bottles of Mrs Rudds homemade jam
21:  ^at 1/3 a bottle^ (especially to of her orange marmalade) & for the 9d
22:  of a pound of her rusks. As & don’t get the brown bread I asked for
23:  as travelling so long it will be dry before you get here. A coolie has
24:  opened a shop so we are now able to get oranges here, but decent
25:  groceries are not to be had here. Please dear drop me a line & tell me
26:  just how the little mother is. I had such a sad dream about her the
27:  other night.
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29:  Love to my dear old Will. I hope you don’t find the staying alone in
30:  Grahamstown too hard, darling.
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32:  Your little Auntie
33:  Olive
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35:  The james & things Aunt Het bought me were smashed fine in the post
36:  cart!!
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