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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/12
ArchiveNational Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeExtract
Letter Date5 July 1896
Address FromThe Homestead, Kimberley, Northern Cape
Address ToKran Kuil, Northern Cape
Who ToS.C. (‘Cron’) Cronwright-Schreiner
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Legend
The Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner were produced by Cronwright-Schreiner in preparing The Life and The Letters of Olive Schreiner. They appear on slips of paper in his writing, taken from letters that were then destroyed; many of these extracts have also been edited by him. They are artefacts of his editorial practices and their relationship to original Schreiner letters cannot now be gauged. They should be read with considerable caution for the reasons given. Cronwright-Schreiner has written the date, where it was sent from and the place it was sent to onto this extract, and also that he briefly called in at Kraan Kuil on his way back to Karree Kloof, to see what was probably one of the last occasions when millions of migrating springbok moved across South Africa.
1 … Oh my sweet Chummie, I hope it will be very nice seeing the
2bokkies ^(the trekbokke)^ & that you will be well all the time…
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