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| Letter Reference | HRC/OliveSchreinerLetters/OS-JohnHodgson/36 |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Wednesday May 1914 |
| Address From | Bull Hotel, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire |
| Address To | |
| Who To | John Hodgson |
| Other Versions | |
| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| Legend |
The Project is grateful to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. This letter has been dated by reference to when Schreiner was staying at the Black Bull in Cambridge with her brother Will, which was May 1914. The letter is on printed headed notepaper with an image of a black bull.
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1Bull Hotel
2Cambridge
3
4Wednesday
5
6Dear Mr Hodgson
7
8Thank you for the MS & your letter. I am so sorry I shan’t be able
9to go on ?Monday I must put off that pleasure till I return from
10Nauheim in July.
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12My heart is troubling me a little, & I am going to Nauheim at the end
13of next week, & must rest as much as possible before I start. If you
14are ever in London I ^so^ should like to take an hours run with you but
15In haste with many thanks – the party are waiting for my
16
17Yours ever
18Olive Schreiner
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2Cambridge
3
4Wednesday
5
6Dear Mr Hodgson
7
8Thank you for the MS & your letter. I am so sorry I shan’t be able
9to go on ?Monday I must put off that pleasure till I return from
10Nauheim in July.
11
12My heart is troubling me a little, & I am going to Nauheim at the end
13of next week, & must rest as much as possible before I start. If you
14are ever in London I ^so^ should like to take an hours run with you but
15In haste with many thanks – the party are waiting for my
16
17Yours ever
18Olive Schreiner
19
Notation
What Hodgson?s manuscript was cannot be established.
What Hodgson?s manuscript was cannot be established.