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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Mrs Goosen 87.17/2/Goos/1 |
| Archive | National English Literary Museum, Grahamstown |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 14 May 1909 |
| Address From | De Aar, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Mrs Goosen |
| Other Versions | |
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| Legend |
The Project is grateful to the National English Literary Museum (NELM) for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections.
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De Aar
2 May 14th 1909
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4 My dear Mrs Goosen
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6 My friend Mrs Haldane Murray has just written to tell me how hard you
7are working for us at Cathcart. This is just to hold out a hand of
8friendship to you. I know how difficult it often is to start a new
9thing in an up-country, but once started, & when our women really
10understand the the great good, not only to themselves, but to men &
11all the nation, the freedom of women will bring, I believe our South
12African women will be even more earnest & successful than others.
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14 I am sending you a little paper by my husband who is strongly in
15favour of women's getting the vote.
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17 Yours very sincerely & wishing you all success
18 Olive Schreiner
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2 May 14th 1909
3
4 My dear Mrs Goosen
5
6 My friend Mrs Haldane Murray has just written to tell me how hard you
7are working for us at Cathcart. This is just to hold out a hand of
8friendship to you. I know how difficult it often is to start a new
9thing in an up-country, but once started, & when our women really
10understand the the great good, not only to themselves, but to men &
11all the nation, the freedom of women will bring, I believe our South
12African women will be even more earnest & successful than others.
13
14 I am sending you a little paper by my husband who is strongly in
15favour of women's getting the vote.
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17 Yours very sincerely & wishing you all success
18 Olive Schreiner
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Notation
The 'little paper' by Cronwright-Schreiner cannot be established.
The 'little paper' by Cronwright-Schreiner cannot be established.