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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold1/1892/5
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date23 April 1892
Address FromMatjesfontein, Western Cape
Address ToPaternoster Square, London
Who ToT. Fisher Unwin
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The Project is grateful to Manuscripts and Archives, University of Cape Town, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Manuscripts and Archives Collections. The date has been written on this letter in an unknown hand. The address the letter was sent to is provided by an attached envelope which is not stamped or postmarked. Schreiner was mainly resident in Matjesfontein between December 1889 and December 1892, with some fairly lengthy visits elsewhere, including Cape Town.
1 Dear Mr Unwin
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3 My brother Mr William Schreiner is in England. As he is my sole
4legatee & executor, & in case of my death will inherit all my
5copyrights &c, I wish him to understand all my business affairs. Will
6you kindly send him a copy of the agreement signed between you & Mr
7Ellis
about Dreams & give him any information he may require.
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9 Yours sincerely
10 Olive Schreiner
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