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| Letter Reference | HRC/OliveSchreinerLetters/OS-JohnHodgson/54 |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Friday 3 December 1915 |
| Address From | 30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, Kensington, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | John Hodgson |
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| 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. The date has been written on this letter in an unknown hand.
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130 St Mary Abbotts Terrace
2Kensington
3London W
4Friday.
5
6Dear Mr Hodgson
7
8Your disagreeable friend sends you the poem – poems are things to
9enjoy not to criticize from my standpoint. Please return it.
10
11I’m so glad to be back in London. Bad as the air is its dry after
12Cornwall, there really is no place in England except London: - Wales
13of course is different
14
15Yours ever
16Olive Schreiner
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2Kensington
3London W
4Friday.
5
6Dear Mr Hodgson
7
8Your disagreeable friend sends you the poem – poems are things to
9enjoy not to criticize from my standpoint. Please return it.
10
11I’m so glad to be back in London. Bad as the air is its dry after
12Cornwall, there really is no place in England except London: - Wales
13of course is different
14
15Yours ever
16Olive Schreiner
17