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Letter ReferenceHRC/OliveSchreinerLetters/OS-JohnHodgson/95
ArchiveHarry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary TypePostcard
Letter Date8 December 1917
Address From9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London
Address To23 Rothersay Road, Luton, Bedfordshire
Who ToJohn Hodgson
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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 postcard, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. The date of this postcard is provided by the postmark, while the address it was sent to is on its front. Schreiner was resident at Porchester Place from early April 1917 until August 1920, when she left Britain for South Africa.
1Dear John
2
3Thanks will meet you at 7 at the Criterion Restaurant on the 16th
4Sunday. Thanks much for the eggs I have boiled two. One was spleldid
5splendid, might have been new laid, the other was mixed up with gass.
6
7Yours ever
8Olive Schreiner
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