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| Letter Reference | HRC/OliveSchreinerLetters/OS-JohnHodgson/6 |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | After Start: October 1914 ; Before End: July 1915 |
| Address From | Kensington Palace Mansions, De Vere Gardens, 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. Schreiner was resident at Kensington Palace Mansions from October 1914 to July 1915. This letter is written on printed headed notepaper.
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1Please reply at once
2
3Telephone: 3675 Kensington.
4Telegrams: Apartment, London.
5
6Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,
7De Vere Gardens, W.
8
9Dear Mr Hodgson
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11I must write to you at once. I am in great distress, my friend says
12the Admiralty are very angry they say his invention is being talked
13about every where, & my friend has written to ask me whether I have
14told people what it was. Now I don’t understand at all what it is,
15so I co & you are the only person to whom I have mentioned that I had
16a friend who was making one. Do write & tell me at once that I h you
17have not mentioned to any one that I said I had a friend making one. I
18should never have mentioned even the fact I had a friend making any
19invention but I thought I could trust you.
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21Yours ever
22Olive Schreiner
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2
3Telephone: 3675 Kensington.
4Telegrams: Apartment, London.
5
6Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,
7De Vere Gardens, W.
8
9Dear Mr Hodgson
10
11I must write to you at once. I am in great distress, my friend says
12the Admiralty are very angry they say his invention is being talked
13about every where, & my friend has written to ask me whether I have
14told people what it was. Now I don’t understand at all what it is,
15so I co & you are the only person to whom I have mentioned that I had
16a friend who was making one. Do write & tell me at once that I h you
17have not mentioned to any one that I said I had a friend making one. I
18should never have mentioned even the fact I had a friend making any
19invention but I thought I could trust you.
20
21Yours ever
22Olive Schreiner
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