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Letter Reference | HRC/OliveSchreinerLetters/OS-JohnHodgson/45 |
Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
Epistolary Type | Letter |
Letter Date | Sunday April 1917 |
Address From | 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London |
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. Schreiner was resident at Porchester Place from early April 1917 until August 1920, when she left Britain for South Africa. The bottom of the letter with the signature has been torn off.
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19 Porchester Place
2^Edgware Rd^
3Sunday
4
5Dear Mr Hodgson
6
7I send you the cutting. I can’t tell you how delighted I was to hear
8your good news today [papertorn]
9
10one of earths most lucky men. She is so perfectly charming & beautiful
11to me.
12
13I did enjoy to-day, & I like Miss Russell. [papertorn]
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2^Edgware Rd^
3Sunday
4
5Dear Mr Hodgson
6
7I send you the cutting. I can’t tell you how delighted I was to hear
8your good news today [papertorn]
9
10one of earths most lucky men. She is so perfectly charming & beautiful
11to me.
12
13I did enjoy to-day, & I like Miss Russell. [papertorn]
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