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Letter ReferenceMacFarlane-Muirhead/31
ArchiveMacFarlane Collection
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter DateWednesday 16 September 1915
Address FromLlandrindod Wells, Wales
Address To64 Great George Street, Hillhead, Glasgow, Scotland
Who ToRobert Franklin ('Bob') Muirhead
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The Project is grateful to Mrs Hazel MacFarlane for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter to Bob Muirhead, which is part of the MacFarlane family collection of Muirhead Papers, Special Collections, University of Glasgow Library. The date of the letter is provided by the postmark on an attached envelope, and the address it was sent to is on its front.
1c/o Dr Parker
2Llandrindod Wells
3Wales
4Wednesday
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6Dear Bob
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8I am so much better & able to stick to my writing that I dont dare to
9move, always leave well alone is my motto. So I dont know when I shall
10get up north to see you all. I got a nice letter from your sister. I
11shall like to see them all so.
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13How about the invention. I see the English are according to their
14showings sending German sub-marines to the bottom by some devices. I
15suppose they are not yours! My work is along another line; it’s all
16for peace!!
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18Did I tell you my favourite nephew & god son Oliver Schreiner was away
19fighting in the trenches? I saw the telegraph boy come to the door
20with a telegram this evening it made my heart jump into my mouth; I
21thought it was news about him, as my brother has promised to wire if
22he hears anything, But it wasn’t any bad news for me.
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24Love to Lene & to you. There seems a fate about my coming north
25Olive
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