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collection icon NLSAMSB386APurcell: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.8: [page/s missing], could have pained her, I might think it was that, but it can't be. Perhaps she is pained by my objecting to...
letter icon Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.9: My darling Anna, I think the meeting went off well. But I don't know why any one needed to say you wouldn't do as well as sec...
letter icon Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.11: Irene, Tuesday, Darling, General Hertzog spent last evening here He is a dear good old fellow; whether one sees eye to eye wi...
letter icon Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.12: July 31st 1910, My darling Anna, I am so glad to hear your beautiful, beautiful news. I hope the beloved little one when it c...
letter icon Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.13: Anna darling, I am sending you a little pamphlet Mrs Rhys David, a friend of mine has sent me as I know you are interested in...
letter icon Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.14: The Visitors' Room, Barkers, Kensington, Dec 22nd 1915, Dear Anna, I am waiting here for a friend, & am going to give the...
letter icon Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.15: Darling Anna , I am enclosing a little poem to you. Its the only really good thing I've seen written since upon the war. It s...
letter icon Anna Purcell MSB 386/2.18: My own darling Anna,, Oh if I could be with you. If I could be a little comfort & help to you! I cant think his dear face...
letter icon Anna Purcell MSB 386/2.19: March 24th 1920, My darling Anna, I can't wish you many happy returns of this day. It will be a sad one for you, & yet it...


collection icon NLSAMSC15JohnXMerriman: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/1: May 5 / 96, Dear Mr Merriman , Thank you for your letter. I should like to answer at length your interesting criticisms, but ...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/2: The Homestead , May 25 / 96, Dear Mr Merriman , Thank you for your letter. Your speech was without any doubt the most brillia...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/3: The Homestead, June 29 / 96, Dear Mr Merriman , I am very glad you liked my Bushman paper. I have never gone on with the lett...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/7: Sunday morning , Dear Mr Merriman , Thank you for your. There are a dozen things in it that I want to refer to. To-day I shal...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/6: Highstead, Rondebosch, Tuesday, Dear Mr Merriman , I got your note last night. It was very good of you & Mrs Merriman to ...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/4: Nov 21st 1897 , Dear Mr Merriman , If we could only get all the people to bear witness in court to what they know & tell ...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/8: [page/s missing], news of that ?meeting in another 50 years. It was our first, but not our last victory. The big fight will p...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/9: [page/s missing], committee at Home. I enclose a paper copied from one he sent me stating some of the things he had seen. He ...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1897:17: Grand Hotel , Alassio , Riviera , Italy , April 3rd 1897, Dear Mr Merriman , I have just got your letter of March 1st. I am i...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1897:57: The Homestead, Kimberley, Dec 5 / 97, Dear Mr Merriman , Yes, we must lose the case & pay costs & damages. But does t...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/71/4/5: The Homestead, , December 17 / 97, Dear Mr Merriman , I am as sick of the word progressive as you can be; as sick as a sheep...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1898:8: Feb 9 / 98, My dear Mr Merriman , I was indeed sorry to receive your letter which confirmed the bad news with regard to your ...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1899:113: Hell, March 17 / 99, Dear Mr Merriman , You will perceive from the superscription above that I am still in Johannesburg. I ha...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1899:477: Dear Mr Merriman , I wish I could feel as confident as you do about no war. I hope that you know more than I do; of course if...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1904:55: Hanover, Feb 13 / 04, Dear Mr Merriman, My Husband has just sent me up a note from the office "Merriman, ?Nevel, Sauer & ...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1904:73: Hanover, 22 Feb / 04, Dear Mr Merriman, I am glad to see you are so soon to have a seat, but you will be a terrible loss to u...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1905:76: Eastbergholt , Tambour's Kloof Rd, May 15th / 05, Dear Mr Merriman, No, it was not Mrs Van Heerden I inquired about but ?our ...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1905:199: Hanover, Oct 31st 1905, My dear Mr Merriman, It was rather strange that your letter should have come just when I was thinking...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1905:228: Hanover, Dec 19 / 05, Dear Mr Merriman, I was very glad to see from the papers some time ago that though South Africa was nea...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1906:12: Hanover, Jan 10th 1906, Dear Mr Merriman, I had planned to spend the 2nd at Stellenbosch & some friends had promised to d...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1906:99: The Hotel , de Aar , Sep 13th 1906., Dear Mr Merriman, I have not at present got Boswell's life of Johnson. I had it of cours...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1906:200: The Hotel , De Aar, Sep 1906, Dear Mr Merriman, I read your speech with great pleasure. Curious that people cant understand t...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1906:214: Matjesfontein, Nov 13th 1906, Dear Mr Merriman, I am just reading a book that fascinates & pleases me greatly - the lette...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1906:232: Dear Mr Merriman, Will you do me the favour of seeing that General Butler gets the enclosed note at once I don't know his mov...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1906:233: Wednesday night , Dear Mr Merriman, I have just had a great pleasure. Sir William Butler spent 24 hours with us. I have alway...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1907:16: Hanover , Feb 26th 1907, Dear Mr Merriman, I am so delighted that Solomon has not got in. it's the finest thing about the ele...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1907:91: Rossyvera , Norfolk Rd , Sea Point, Ju Aug 2nd 1907, My dear Mr Merriman, I was indeed very sorry that I was out when you cal...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1910:16: Rocklands , Beach Road , Sea Point, Feb 8th 1910, Dear Mrs Merriman, I hope you understood I was not able to call on you befo...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1910:151: De Aar, May 26th 1910, My dear Mr Merriman, I have just seen the notice in the paper of your mother's death. I hope you will ...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1910:507: c/o Haldane Murray , Portlock , nr Graaff Reinet, Dec 22nd 1910, Dear Mr Merriman, I am writing partly to send you & Mrs ...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1911:44: De Aar, Ap May 3rd 1911, Dear Mr Merriman, Thanks for your letter. I have not seen the article in the "Economist" you mention...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1911:48: De Aar, May 12 / 11 , Dear Mr Merriman, Pray don't trouble about the Economist. I thought you took it & might have it lyi...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:122: De Aar, July 2nd 1912, Dear Mr Merriman, It would be impossible for me to tell you the depression I felt when I heard Hertzog...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:132: De Aar, Aug 11th 1912, Dear Mr Merriman., Re. your letter. No, I do not take a sorrowful view of life generally; nor above al...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:164: de Aar, Oct 22nd 1912, Dear Mr Merriman, It's strange how often it happens that just when you are going to write to a friend ...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:191: De Aar, Novem 20th 1912, Dear Mr Merriman, Many thanks for the booklet. It is Interesting., I am leaving for Cape Town tomorr...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:207: De Aar, Sunday night , Dear Mr Merriman, Thank you very much for your letter. The woman question, as you know, lies so near t...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:208: Grand Hotel,, Muizenberg, Saturday night., Dear Mr Merriman, I hope you are feeling fit & strong for the cession It was n...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:209: Alexandra Hotel , Muizenberg, Tuesday 1912, Dear Mr Merriman, I wonder if you will think I am taking a great liberty if you a...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:210: Alexandra Hotel , Muizenberg, Monday, 1912, Dear Mr Merriman,, Thank you very sincerely for your letter. I hope to come in on...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:211: De Aar, Tues-day, Dear Mrs Merriman, Many thanks for your letter I have written for the price lists, We live largely on dried...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1913:71: De Aar, Wednesday., Dear Mr Merriman, I thought your speech on the Native Bill very fine, but oh if you could have seen your ...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1913:72: De Aar, Sunday, Dear Mr Merriman, Though I only posted my note to you this morning I must add a line to tell you how delighte...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1913:134: De Aar, July 20th 1913, Dear Mr Merriman, I have not answered your last interesting letters because I have been too ill to wr...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1913:150: Dear Mr Merriman, Yesterday afternoon came the sad news & at a quarter past two this morning I heard the train go past wi...
letter icon John X. Merriman MSC 15/1913:320: De Aar, Nov 16th 1913, Dear Mr Merriman, I was glad indeed to see your remarks on the Indians. Im It is not waving their litt...


collection icon NLSAMSC21JamesRoseInnes: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon James Rose Innes MSC 21/2/1895:33: The Homestead, Aug Sep 2nd 1895, Dear Mr Innes, Do come up. It would be of great benefit to the work we all have at heart: ev...
letter icon James Rose Innes MSC 21/2/1896:55: My dear Friend , What tidings are these that I hear of thee on every hand??? , Since I came out from England primed il with S...


collection icon NLSAMSC26APurcell: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.1: [page/s missing], 2, in I find him pocking about the room with a candle; I asked him what he was looking for. He said he was ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.2: Thursday night , My darling Anna, Did you feel how I was loving you as I sat behind you at the meeting. I could have kissed y...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.4: De Aar, Nov 16th 1913, My darling Anna, I shall arrive in Cape Town on the evening of Friday the 21st if I am able to get my ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.5: Dear Anna, Will you please send the enclosed to Cron. They are beginning to have Martial Law here, & often letters &c...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.6: Address c/o Standard Bank, 10 Clements Lane, Lombard St, London, Anna dear, I hope your are all having a happy Xmas. My love ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.7: Nov 20th 1919, My darling darling Anna, Cron has just sent me your two letters to him. Oh if I could be with you, dear, that'...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.8: [page/s missing], & your husband had been able to meet her & some of my other friends I know you would have loved the...


collection icon NLSAMSC26Box14Chapman: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Frederic Chapman MSC 26/14.1/1: Hotel du Park , Mentone, Dear Mr Chapman, My brother has forwarded me the enclosed. Would you not kindly make arrangements wi...


collection icon NLSAMSC26DollieRadford: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Dollie Radford MSC 26/2.10.1: My dear Dolly Radford, Thank you for your beautiful little poem to me. I only found it last night in bed, because the last le...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Dollie Radford MSC 26/2.10.2: New College, Eastbourne, Limited., Eastbourne, Thursday, Dear Dolly Radford, I shall be so glad to meet you. Could you come n...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Dollie Radford MSC 26/2.10.3: 30 St Mary Abbott's Terrace , Kensington, Thursday, Dear Dollie Radford, I have wanted for so many years to see you. I can't ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Dollie Radford MSC 26/2.10.4: Hotel Augusta Victoria, Bad Nauheim , June 28th 1914, Dear Dolly, I wasnt able to see you when I was in London, I was too ill...


collection icon NLSAMSC26EBLloyd: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: E.B. Lloyd MSC 26/2.4.1: 30 St Mary Abbott's Terrace, Kensington , Friday, Dear Mr Lloyd, I know how busy you must be but I should like very much to m...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: E.B. Lloyd MSC 26/2.4.2: c/o Dr Parker , Llandrindod Wells, Wales, Friday, Dear Mr Lloyd, I have just got your letter. Had I heard about yours friends...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: E.B. Lloyd MSC 26/2.4.3: Alexi, 31 The Park, Hampstead , Thursday, Dear Mr Lloyd, I wrote to you to the Hampstead address Edward Carpenter gave me to ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: E.B. Lloyd MSC 26/2.4.4: Alexi, 31 The Park, Hampstead , Monday, Dear Mr Lloyd, Thank you for your letter. The reason I was so anxious to see you, apa...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: E.B. Lloyd MSC 26/2.4.5: I shall be in on Saturday or Sunday evening after 7 30 if that will do for the music? Let me know which time suits., OS, 31 T...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: E.B. Lloyd MSC 26/2.4.6: "Alexi", 31 The Park, Hampstead, Monday , My dear Mr Lloyd, I was indeed grieved last night when I came in & found you ha...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: E.B. Lloyd MSC 26/2.4.7: "Alexi", 31 The Park, Hampstead, Monday, Dear Mr Lloyd, DIf you & your friend could come about 5 on Saturday I should be ...


collection icon NLSAMSC26JessieRoseInnes: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.1: De Aar, July 6th 1909, Dear Jessie, Thank you for your letter. I have written to Mr Cross about Meredith. I would have writte...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.2: c/o Dr. Purcell, Muizenberg, Thursday, Dear Jessie,, I was too unwell to leave & have been staying here with my dear frie...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.3: c/o Dr. Purcell, York House, Muizenberg, Xmas Day., Dear Jessie, It was a great disappointment to me to hear from Anna Purcel...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.4: Matjesfontein, Jan. 3rd 1909 1910, My dear Jessie, I have been trying to make that milk you told me of but it doesn't come ri...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.5: Sunday morning , Darling Jessie, It was so good to see you. I am just going out to Sea Point to see if I can find a room ther...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.6: Rocklands, (Private Hotel), Sea Point, Jan 26th 1910, Dear Jessie, I've found such delightful quarters. On Sunday I was very ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.7: 9 Porchester Place , Edgware Rd, London W, New Year's Day 1920, A happy new year to you, dear. I've never had a word of news ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.8: 9 Porchester Place , Edgware Rd., March 28th 1920, Dear Jessie, I know you are feeling anxious about our Dorothy. I have writ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.9: 9 Porchester Place , Edgware Rd., April 26th 1920, Dear Jessie,, I was so glad to get a letter from Dorothy yesterday, & ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.10: Oak Hall, Tramway Terminus, Wynburg, Thursday, Dear Jessie, I'm so glad to think you've come back again. I hope you've had a ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.11: Friday, Dear Jessie, Just a word to tell you how I enjoyed my stay with you, & how much your kindness touched me. As one ...


collection icon NLSAMSC26JohnMaryBrown: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.1: Cockburn Hotel, Edinburgh, Saturday Morning, My dear Dr. Brown, Thanks for letter & the information. It makes the temptat...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.2: New College, Eastbourne, May 5th 1881, My dear Dr. Brown,, You see I have followed your advice for the second-time. Here I am...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.3: I'm sending you a pamphlet on 'Sex & Socialism" by Professor Pearson. Tell me what you think of it? It's so beautiful &...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.4: Pisa, Italy, Sunday night, Have been meaning to write for so long. Left Alassio today, & am on my way to Venice. Have jus...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.5A: Will you, please, send to Robert Brothers, the large full face photo you have? It's the only copy. They'll send it back all r...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.6: I have almost given up writing letters at all now I'm so busy. I'm going to send you the Prelude to one of my stories to read...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.7: Wagenaar's Kraal, Three Sisters, Mar April 5th 1900, Dear Mrs Brown,, I got a paper from Cron last week with the Padiham post...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.8: Hanover, Feb 24 / 01, Dear Mrs Brown, I hope you are feeling stronger. With the coming of the spring in England one always fe...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.10: My darling Friend, Thank you for the papers. Of course I don't want their sentence shortened, they are a disgrace to all Sout...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.11: Xmas morning, My darling Friend, How beautifully you timed your Xmas greeting. It got here to Hanover just a couple of hours ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.12: Hanover, Feb 10 / 03, Now I wonder, my dear friend, what you are doing just now today in Scotland! I am thinking of you so co...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.13: Sunday morning, Feb 22 / 03, Dear Friend, I am thinking much of you. Have you settled for good at 20 ?Warrender Park Crescent...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.14: Hanover, Oct 14 / 03, My very dear Friends,, I wonder if you have gone abroad to Italy now. I wonder how you are I want so to...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.15: Monday, Dear Mary,, I hope you are getting good news of Rays little one. Alice did not mention her in her last to me so I exp...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.16: Hotel "De Aar", De Aar, Sep 14th 1906, C.C., Dear Friend, Thank you for your letter., I've written to Merriman & Will abo...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.17: De Aar, Oct 15 / 07, My darling Friend, Thank you for your letter. I am glad of its news., Its my favourite old spot up there...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.18: Oct 31 /10, Dear Julie, I have been out today to see a poor man who is very lit ill with liver & heart. He was tapped in ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.19: June 4th 1920, London, Dear J.B. , How goes the world with you? I've not seen Ray again. Alice Corthorn tells me she's in the...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.23: Private, I'm writing a thing on closer Union. If no one else will speak out for the natives I must. When done it will be publ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.24: ... a nephew of Judge ?Markanin who is a great friend of Sir James Innes & of Merriman., Africa ?would, them much , Yours...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.26A: I'm leaving this for my beloved Switzerland land again on Monday. My address will be , Hotel Post, Aen Steg, Switzerland, Aen...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.26B: I am in Paris. I hoped to be able to finish my nursing course here, but I find my want of good knowledge of French will stand...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.26C: Bret Harte is Bret Harte. Letter is lovely. , Do you know any one who would care to send boys to Ed Carpenter's school. , Mui...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.26E: I know if you treated me rightly you would never write to me. But I long so for one of your beautiful letters. I am well I am...


collection icon NLSAMSC26JTLloyd: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: J.T. Lloyd MSC 26/2.5.1: Matjesfontein , Oct 29 / 92, Dear Mr Lloyd , Thank you very much for the lecture you sent me. Need I tell you that I valued i...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: J.T. Lloyd MSC 26/2.5.2: [page/s missing], One point he & I are always having great arguments about: he, like Grant Allen & others, thinks it ...


collection icon NLSAMSB834OSMisc: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Harry Gie MSB 834/1.3.1: Wednesday morning, Dear Harry Gie,, You will think I & my dog are the greatest bores you ever knew., But would you give t...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Harry Gie MSB 834/1.3.2: Rosyvera , Norfolk Rd , Sea Point, July 20th 1907, My dear Harry, I am just really glad to hear your good news. And your dear...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Harry Gie MSB 834/1.3.3: Matjesfontein, From, O.S., To, H.G., , Thanks. Hope flourishing. Arrive 30th Pools Hotel evening, 9. o'clock. If small figu...


collection icon NLSAMSC26KallenbachGandhi: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.1: Alexandra Hotel, Muizenberg, Tuesd, Dear Mr Kallenbach, Thank you much for your letter I hope if ever you or Mr Gandi pass de...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.2: Telephone, 3350, 3300Western, 30 St Mary Abbott's Terrace, Kensington, London W., Saturday, My dear Mr Ghandi, I have at last...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.3: 30 St Mary Abbott's Terrace, Kensington, Wednesday, Dear Mr Callenbach, Ive not written to you because I've been too tired &...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.4: Bay View, West Parade, Hythe, Kent, Oct 2nd 1914, Dear Mr Kallenbach, Thank you for your letter I wrote two letters to you, b...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.5: The Windsor,, Lancaster Gate,, London, Dear Mr Callenbach, Thank you for your kind note I am coming to see you some afternoon...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.6: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I am so sorry I did not know Mr Gandhi was ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.7: I should like to come & see you all tomorrow Could you call for me here at 5 o'clock. Telephone if it is not convenient., ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.8: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I wonder if you got my note yesterday the o...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.9: Monday, Dear Mr Kallenbach, I was sorry you did not come to Miss Hobhouse's yesterday. I was glad to see Mr Gandhi looking mu...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.10: Dear Mr Kallenbach, I am still in bed. I'm too tired to go this morning as I did not sleep at all last night I have still hea...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.11: Kensington Palace Mansions,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, The Would you do me a great favour I left an old cloak ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.12: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I wanted to be up & ask you to go to Ha...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.13: Kensington Palace Mansions, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I am so very sorry you can't get to India to your friend...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.14: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Monday night, Dear Mr Kallenbach, I am enclosing one of those s...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.15: Thank you, I am much much better since I got back., My little niece from Africa gave me this letter for you from Ruth Alexand...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.16: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Sunday, Have you engagements for tomorrow? Or could you call he...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.17: Dear Mr Kallenbach, Thank you so much I've no one to get things for me. I feel more ill than I've ever felt since I left Afri...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.18: Monday, Dear Mr Kallenbach, Thank you for your note I'm glad all goes so well with you. I am going away for some days to the ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.19: Dear Mr Kallenbach, If you could come this evening about 8, I should like to get up & sit in the drawing & have a tal...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.20: Dear Mr Kallenbach, I am not well enough to get up this morning I may try this afternoon Would you get me, if you have time h...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.21: I am not taking anything but milk thankyou since Tuesday I think I have pneumonia in the left lung as well as my heart there ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.22: If I am not better tomorrow I shall have to send for a nurse. Could you buy me about 6d worth of bananas. But don't trouble t...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.23: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Thank you very much indeed. No there's nothing I need. I've gon...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.24: Dear Mr K, Many thanks I don't need any thing Enclose cheque for £1-0-0 toward pay for the things you got me. I am getti...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.25: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I hope you will understand my having spoken...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.26: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, Thank you for the fine chocolate & your...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.27: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I am so sorry I was out when you & Mr T...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.28: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I am so sorry I was out I am too ill to go ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.29: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Sunday, Dear Mr Kallenbach, I have lost your address so I am se...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.30: May 3rd 1915, Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I have written to you twice t...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.31: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I hope all is going well with you. I certain...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.32: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, I hope you are still well & happy in you...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.33: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mr Kallenbach, Thank you so much for the lovely flowers &...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.34: 30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, Kensington, London, Dec 2nd 1915, It is such a very long time since I heard any news of you. Did ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.35: Glad to hear all goes so well with you. May the new year find you in good health & good spirits., OS, Kensington, London ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.36: Dawson's Place Mansions, Pembridge Square, London W , Nov 7th 1916, Dear Mr Kallenbach, I am so glad to hear you are going to...


collection icon NLSAMSC26KatieFindlay: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.1: Colesberg, Aug 20th 1874, My dearest Katie!, I was very glad when your long silence was at last broken by the letter which I ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.2: Colesberg, Feb 19th 1875, My dearest Katie!, I must write to thank you for the money you have so kindly lent me. It was very ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.3: Ganna Hoek, April 15th 1875, My dearest Katie!, Your letter which I receive last week was most welcome to me though I can't t...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.4: Ganna Hoek, June 27th 1875, My dearest Katie, It is a bitterly cold evening & my hands are quite stiff with the cold but ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.5: Ganna Hoek, July 23rd 1875 , My dearest Katie!, This being the evening of your birthday, I must not go to bed with out writin...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.6: Ganna Hoek, Nov 2nd 1875, My dear Katie!, I was indeed beginning to fancy that I should never hear of or from you again &...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.7: Ganna Hoek , April 5th 1876, My dear Katie!, You owe me ever so many letters, but then I should have written long ago to than...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.8: Rattel Hoek , Aug 13th 1876 , My dearest Katie!, Many thanks for your letter which I received last week. I am so glad to hear...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.9: Rattel Hoek, Jan. 27th 1877., My dear Katie!, I have to thank you for a letter, & to tell you of my safe return from my w...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.10: Seymour,, Feb. 4th 1878., My dear Katie!, It is so long since you last wrote to me that I can’t at all remember when it...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.11: Ratel Hoek, March 18 / 78, My dear Katie!, Many thanks for the letter which Mamma has just sent me. I was glad to see you had...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.12: Ratel Hoek, May 31st 1878., My dear Katie!, Many thanks for your letter. I thought you had almost forgotten me., I will send ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.13: Ratel Hoek, Jan. 26 / 79., My dear Katie, I have not heard from your for a very long time, but I hope you will not be sorry o...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.14: Seymour, July 25 / 79, My dear Katie, I send you a likeness of Mamma which I have had taken. I think you will be glad to have...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.15: Lily Kloof, Sep. 12 / 79., My dear Katie, I was very glad to get your letter & have sent Mama’s on to her. I am onl...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.16: Lily Kloof, May 29 / 80, My dear Katie, I have let your last letter lie rather long unanswered but in truth I am very busy &...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.17: Lily Kloof, Jan. 27 / 80, My dear Katie, Many thanks for your letter & likenesses. It is very nice to be able to look at ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.18: Lily Kloof, Oct. 14 / 80, My dear Katie, I have allowed your letter to remain rather long unanswered. In truth, it is very di...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.19: Lily Kloof, Nov 19 / 80., My dear Katie, You have not yet answered my last; but there is a good opportunity of posting; I’...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/1.14.20: Lilys Kloof, Jan 5 / 81., My dear Sister, I was glad when this afternoon’s post brought me a letter from you. Leading t...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.21: Grahamstown, Feb 26 / 81., My dear Katie!, I was most glad of your letter & cannot leave old Africa without a farewell wo...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.22: New College, Eastbourne, April 2nd 1881., My dear Katie, I hope the letter I sent you just before I sailed has reached you sa...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.23: New College, Aug. 15th 1881., My dear Katie, I have only time for a line. It is very long since I heard from you. I send you ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.24: 7 St. Margaret’s Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex., Nov. 23rd 1882., My dear Katie, I was very glad to receive your le...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.25: Harpenden, England, Sep 28 / 88., Dear Hudson, I’ve been very glad to have such good news of you. I hope you will do ve...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.26: Mount Vernon, Cape Town, Dec 6 / 89, Dear Katie, Thank you so much for your kind letter. I should have answered it at once bu...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.27: Mount Vernon, Cape Town, My dear Katie, Many thanks for your letter, & for the cards which Mother sent over to me from Gr...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.28: Dear Sister Katie, I fear you will find me a very bad correspondent., I dislike letter writing so much, but I am often thinki...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.29: Matjesfontein, My dear Sister , I fear I am a very bad correspondent but I have so much writing to do that I hate to write a ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.30: My dear old Sissie, , I value your gift to me so much it is so useful. Cron sends his love to you & all the girls. We ar...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.31: My dear Hudson , I was very glad to have that little peep at you & Fred. Dear old Fred I knew before, but you are a new p...


collection icon NLSAMSC26MarySauer: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.1: Matjesfontein, Friday night, My dear Mrs Sauer, I missed you very much when you went I never feel lonely except when I have h...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.2: Pine Grove, Hof Street, Gardens., Cape Town, Friday, My dear Mrs Sauer, Thank you for your letter. & for what you said ve...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.3: Matjesfontein, Xmas Day., Dear Mrs Sauer, I hope you are having a beautiful time with the children. I was so happy on the jou...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.4: Matjesfontein, Friday night, My dear Friend, I was so glad to get your letter. Dear of course you feel unfinished; we all fee...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.5: Matjesfontein, Friday, My dear Mrs Sauer, I told them to send you a wire to say I had gone., It is so delightful here. We can...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.6: My darling. I got your note this morning. The address is, Louie Ellis, 9 St Mary's Terrace, Paddington, London W., Send a per...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.7: Matjesfontein, M Tuesday, My darling, Perhaps I shall have to be in Worcester on the 19th to see my sister about something. W...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.8: Thanks melons splendid. Logan thanks., I'm going to Worcester Wednesday, return here Thursday evening. Hope you be in Worcest...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.9: Dear Mary , I am sorry I couldn't come to Worcester. I am working very hard to get a long article done that must be done by t...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.10: Matjesfontein, My dear Mary,, You don't write me nice letters & tell me all about yourself any more. I long to see you so...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.11: Dear Mary, A word in great hurry. I have got £106 for Peter Naude already, but £16 has to go for passage money. I m...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.12: Matjesfontein, My dear Mary, Thank you so much for writing to me. I was feeling so depressed this morning, such an unusual th...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.13: My dear Mary,, I don't know why I want to write to you tonight. Do you know its so nice to call you Mary, I've never had a fr...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.14: Dear Mary, You see what a broken reed I am to depend on! I am not going to Kimberley at all now & not coming to Town next...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.15: Monday, My dear Mary, Thank you so much It will be such a very great help to have that money for Naudé. It will be so sp...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.16: Matjesfontein, Dear Mary, I saw Mr Sauer this morning when he went past., I am coming down to Town. Again my nephew has chang...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.17: Wednesday, My dear Mary, I have been hoping, I would get out this evening to see you, now I see I can't. You don't know what ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.18: Pine Grove, Hof Street, Tuesday, It's raining so you won't come in today. I can't go out to Lady Loch, so I won't come out to...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.19: Darling Mary, I send you a few American reviews a publisher sent me this morning. Please send them on to my Mother in enclose...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.20: Matjesfontein , Wednesday night, My dear Mary,, I am asking a great favour of you. If you should be in town, could you call i...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.21: Dear Mary, I leave by tomorrow morning's train; get to town late at night. Don't know by what train I can get out to you., Th...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.22: Pine Grove, Hof Street, Saturday, Dear Mary,, You looked so tired some how. Darling I can't bear to think you are ever tired ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.23: Dear Mary,, I am just going down town; shall send the things with this to Mr Sauer's office I shall try every where to get th...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.24: 2 Sydenham Terrace, Hof Street, Gardens, Just got your letter, darling Mary. Am moving into Bertram House, that house at the ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.25: Thursday, My darling Mary,, Thank you for your letter, dear. I will tell Mrs Anderson you will be glad to see her when she co...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.26: Sunday night late, My darling Mary, It was good just to see you to-day. I hope you will like T.D. which I send you. I will bu...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.27: Wednesday, I am leaving this evening for Matjesfontein. I think I shall do more work there. I send you one tiny little story;...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.28: My darling Mary,, Dear one, do forgive me, I am so very, very, very, tired. I can't think how I made the mistake about Thursd...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.29: Dear Mary, Sorry I can't come. Got a touch of my old Italian malaria, that's why I was so stupid. I shall love every body &...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.30: Friday Morning, Dear Mary,, My dear old drop of fresh dew! I think your dress will come by the Dunnottar on Monday. See about...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.31: Saturday night, My dear Mary,, I'm going to come & see you on Monday if I can but I'm not sure I've told Mr Sauer about t...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.32: Darling Mary,, Did I make you sorry last night teasing you so! I am so "cussed" some times & must tease people, & yes...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.33: International , My darling Mary, Thou dost never come to see me. I shant be in Town only now. Will you & Mr Sauer come &...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.34: My dear Mary, I sent your dress & boots & packet in the portmanteau this morning. I took it down to the station mysel...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.35: 57 Grove Street, Saturday night, Dear Mary, I send you some letters about Naude which may interest you. Return please. I neve...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.36: 57 Grove Street, Friday, My dear Mary, What of Mr Sauer & M C???, I am wanting to know., Did you go to the ball last nigh...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.37: O'Callaghan's International Hotel, The Gardens , Cape Town, Sunday night, My darling Mary, I mean to try & come out on Tu...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.38: Saturday, Dear Mary, Wilt though do me a great favour? Send me a hat like Dorothys but bigger, & ?s rather, & some of...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.39: Matjesfontein , Dear Mary, I'm so glad you are coming Mr Logan say charge will be £1 per day for all included (except wi...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.40: Darling Mary,, I am so glad you came. I've never felt so near you before nor loved you so. Mary, you have to go through a tim...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.41: Matjesfontein , Thank you, Mary, for your sweet letter. I shall do what I can about the "Home." That evil is the thing which ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.42: Darling Mary,, Don't expect me on 14th. Am not coming., I hope your sister is quite well now. Wish I had seen her when she we...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.43: Tuesday , Cape Town., I'm here, dear. All the way down in the train last night I was looking forward to seeing you; & Mis...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.44: Thursday night , My darling Mary , Can I come early on Saturday morning to you & spend the morning & then go with you...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.45: Queen's Hotel , Frid Wednesday, Dear Mary,, I'm sitting here with the beautiful old sea making a noise just below my window. ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.46: Thursday, Dear Mary,, I was so dis-appointed not to be able to come to the lunch. I looked forward to it so. I had a bathe on...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.47: My darling old Mary, We had such a splendid day up the mountain yesterday. You were the old only person I wished was up there...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.48: Matjesfontein , Mary darling, I've many things to say. You didn't mind my leaving without coming to say good bye? I was so ti...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.49: Matjesfontein , My darling Mary, I don't know why I feel I must write to you this afternoon because I've got nothing to say. ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.50: Matjesfontein, Saturday, I'm all right. When I got back I had an awful sore throat so ?swelled I couldn't speak for some days...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.51: Sunday morning , Dear Mary,, I've just seen a notice in the Kimberley Independent that "a marriage has been arranged" between...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.52: Matjesfontein, April 27 / 92 , My darling Mary, I've nothing new to say to night, but I've had you so in my mind last night &...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.53: Matjesfontein, May 8 / 9., Dear old Mary, How I wish you were here this morning so beautiful & fresh after the five terri...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.54: Matjesfontein, Monday, Dear Mary, I hope the world goes well with you. I went to our place in the river bed this morning but ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.55: Saturday night , I'm going really to answer your letter. I cant tonight. I shall think of you when I'm lying in bed & wis...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.56: Matjesfontein, Th Wednesday, I've a long letter three sheets for you here, but I think I won't send it. I'm always writing le...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.57: Matjesfontein , Sep 25 / 92, My dear Mary,, Thank you for your letter. I'd been meaning to write any how - though I've no new...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.58: My own darling Mary, Did you misunderstand my letter? Dear one, it was just because I want so terribly that your visit should...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.59: Middleburg, Saturday, My darling Mary, It's a beautiful evening. I am just going off for my solitary walk across the plain, b...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.60: Middelburg, Monday, My darling Mary,, Write & tell me what you think about the going to England. Write to Mr Fuller about...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.61: New College , Eastbourne , Sunday, Dear Mary, I'm longing to see you. I shall go up to London tomorrow afternoon; my address ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.62: New College , Eastbourne , Dear, thanks for your sweet letter., I think you are wrong about the trains. The According to the ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.63: My darling Mary,, I think it would be better as you are going to Scotland & Paris is still so close to put off our going ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.64: My darling, Where are you doing when you leave Mrs Handcocks? Will you not come up here Mrs Walters terms are £3.3 a wee...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.65: Millthorpe, Holmsfield, nr Sheffield , Tuesday, My dear Mary,, Did you get my letters from St Leonards? I only got yours here...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.66: Millthorpe, Holmsfield, Nr Sheffield , Dear , Some one is going into Sheffield so I take the chance of writing. The post offi...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.67: Darling, Thanks so much for the ?drapers. ?There's very nice. I enclose the cheque., Thanks my darling so much for the chair....
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.68: Middelburg, Darling I've been very ill since I was here nearly dead! Oh, I long so to have you back in Africa. I heard today ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.69: My darling Mary,, It's beautiful to think you will so soon be here. You will hear when you arrive that I was married on the 2...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.70: Beach Hotel , East London , March 13 / 94, My darling Mary,, It's beautiful to think you are back in old Africa again. I hope...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.71: Molteno, Sunday evening, Darling Mary,, I got your letter yesterday morning at East London just before I started. Some very k...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.72: Krantz Plaats , P.O. Halesowen, April 12 / 94, My darling I am longing to see you Some day you must come here. I know a littl...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.73: My darling, I understand so perfectly what you mean. It's just because one wants to be so absolutely one with another humanbe...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.74: Krantz Plaats, Halesowen, Aug 1st , Darling Mary, I sent you a wire this morning about nurse. It suddenly struck me what you ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.75: The Homestead , Kimberley, Monday, Thanks so, dear. I've got a girl who comes in the morning for a couple of hours a day, &...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.76: Friday, Darling, I'm always thinking of you though I don't write. I wish you could have come up. I long very much to see you,...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.77: Darling, Please address this letter to Mrs Salt, I've forgotten her address., I got a long beautiful letter from dear Ed Carp...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.78: The Homestead , Kimberley , Sep Oct 5 / 94, Dear one, Did Mrs Salt send you Carpenter's new pamphlet on "Marriage"? If she di...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.79: Saturday, Darling Mary,, The sickness of stomach still goes on day & night so I can't write much to any one. I'd like to ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.80: My darling Mary, Thank you for your note. Things are going allright with us: but I shall be very glad of those books of Mrs G...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.81: The Homestead, Jan 2 / 94 , A Happy New Year to you, dear. I hope I shall see you before it is out. Thank you for sending the...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.82: Sunday morning, Darling Mary, Thermom. 106 in the shades, one's nearly melted & can't write, especially when one isn't so...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.83: Tuesday, Dear Mary, I have kept the enclosed letter two days not knowing whether to sa send it you are or not. I think I had ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.84: The Homestead, Feb 2 / 95, Darling Mary, I am still worrying about that Dr Watkins matter; better not mention me at all &...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.85: Thursday, My sweet old Mary, I send you a photograph of myself. I will send you one soon of Cron & myself sat taken toget...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.86: Thank you, my darling, for your sweet gift which came today. One of your little dresses I will put out in the basket to be th...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.87: The Homestead , March 15 / 95., Darling Mary, I am so disappointed Cron saw so little of you, & was not able to go up the...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.88: The Homestead, Mar April 1st 1895, Darling Mary, Thankyou for your sweet remembrance of my birthday., I was so disappointed n...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.89: The Homestead, April 17 / 95, Dear Mary, I am still all right. On Sunday night as I was driving my little servant girl home f...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.90: The Homestead, May 10th 1895, My darling Mary , Your sweet letter came to me yesterday. My dear one, I am so worn in mind &...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.91: May 28 / 95, My darling Mary , I am getting on all right & hope next week to be back at my work. That's all I want I don'...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.92: The Homestead , June 3rd 1895, My darling Mary, Thankyou so much for your letter., Do you know I was starting off with Cron t...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.93: Friday night , Dear, I was so sorry Dr Beck wouldn't let me see any one today. Can you come on Saturday morning? I am posting...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.93a: The Homestead, Saturday, Darling Mary, In unpacking my papers I've come across this note to you which I thought I had posted....
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.94: Saturday, My dear Mary, I was so disappointed that you didn't come yesterday afternoon. I expected you even in the morning as...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.95: The Homestead, Kimberley, July 1st 1895., Dear sweet old Mary, We got back at midday today, & I am glad to be here again,...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.96: Monday morning , Darling Mary , I send you a copy of the paper on the political situation: tell me freely what you think of i...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.97: Oct 14 / 95, Thankyou so much for your letter. I began really to feel anxious that I had no news of you., All's going very we...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.98: Commercial Hotel , Middelburg , Jan 10 / 95, Dear Mary , Thank you so much for the papers & the wire. Here we get our new...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.99: Middelburg, Ja Feb 6 / 96, Darling Mary , I don't know why I've been thinking so much of you the last days. Last night in the...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.100: The Homestead, Mar April 2 / 96, Thursday night nine o'clock , Darling , Your letter came late this evening, & at first I...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.101: Darling Mary , I wonder if you have gone to Johannesburg? I send you Mr Lloyds letter to serve as to let you know what he is ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.102: Darling , I would advise you not to take Dorothy to England at all but to send her to Miss Moltenos at Port Elizabeth. You kn...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.103: Yes, darling, I am very sorry for Mr Sauer. He is being deserted by the men whose cause he fought & who should have stood...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.104: Mrs Sauer, Cumnor, Kennilworth, nr Cape Town, How are you getting on, dear. I hope well. Send me just a word. I am very tired...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.105: The Homestead , June 30, July 1 / 96, Dear , I hope you are getting on nicely. You may think it very foolish, but I am feelin...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.106: Strictly Private. Is your arm quite strong? , My darling Mary , No, there has been nothing wrong with my womb, I am sure! Eac...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.107: Dear Mary, If you do decide not to send Dorothy to Miss Molteno but to take her to England a splendid idea has struck me. My ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.108: 19 Russell Rd , Kensington , Feb 11 / 97, Dear Mary, It was such a disappointment to me that you were gone when I came; we mu...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.109: Grand Hotel , Alassio, Riviera, Italy, April 3rd 1897, Darling Mary , I was so glad to get your letter. It was a misfortune t...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.110: 15 Gildridge Rd , Eastbourne , Aug 7 / 97, Dear Mary, I'm thinking of you all the time, since Jessie has told me of your cond...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.111: Hope Town, Sep 28 / 97, My sweet old Mary, I have only just received from London the letter you wrote me when I was there. I ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.112: The Homestead , Oct. 11 / 97, My darling Mary,, I am thinking of you so often. I wish you lived here where I could see you ev...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.113: The Homestead , Oct 19 / 97, Darling Mary, When exactly do you expect little Peter to come? In January? Don't forget to tell ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.114: Darling Mary , It was so sweet to see your face; you are much more beautiful than you've ever been before. I wish I had a pho...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.115: The Homestead , Dec 3 / 97, Darling Mary, I couldn't get out to see you again. I was so sorry Cron couldn't see you when he c...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.116: The Homestead , Dec 2nd 1897, Dear,, I am so glad our little Peter has arrived safely. I am very anxious for fuller news of y...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.117: The Homestead, Jan 9 / 97, I was do glad to get your letter card my darling, & also a letter from Mrs Innes telling me ho...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.118: My darling Mary, I was so glad to get you letter. All I begin to see is that little Paul Oliver will have to have a brother s...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.119: The Homestead, April 21st 1898, My darling Mary, I have just returned today from Johannesburg where we have spent a most deli...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.120: July 3rd 1898, My darling Mary, I would indeed be lovely if you could all come up. Can't you manage it. The weather is still ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.121: The Homestead , Aug 22nd 1898, Dear Mary, It's just possible I may be coming down in Cape Town soon, as the doctor has ordere...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.122: Primrose Terrace, Berea Estate , Johannesburg, Feb 15 / 99, Oh is it true Mary dear, that you are coming to Johannesburg next...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.123: Feb 24 / 99, My darling Mary, This is my wedding day. I have been married five years to-day., It was nice your letter came ju...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.124: 2 Primrose Terrace , Berea Estate , April 30 / 99, Darling Mary, Are you coming to Johannesburg next month. Mrs Chapin says y...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.125: Saturday, Dear Mary, I will come down on the train that leaves Beaufort on Tuesday Wednesday afternoon if I possibly can, am ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.126: Hanover , Oct 6 / 00, Darling Mary, Your husband & Merriman have made splendid speeches & been fighting grandly; but ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.127: Hanover, Sunday night, Dear Mary,, I shall certainly be leaving for Cape Town next Saturday night & before shall reach Ca...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.128: Hanover, Oct 20 / 02, Dear Mary, I've put off my going till Tuesday the 27th & shall arrive by the mail train on Wednesda...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.129: Hanover, Jan 31st 1903, Dear Mary, Thank you so much for the book. I would like to keep it till mine comes. Can I, or are you...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.130: Monday, May 17 / 03 , Darling Mary, Did you ever get the "Hearts of Men"? Cron is very ill, I have to feed & dress & ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.131: c/o Mrs Kriel, Beaufort West, May 27 / 03, Dear Mary, Thankyou for your sweet letter. I am staying on here, & Cron went o...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.132: Sunday, Dear Mary, I shall leave this on Saturday afternoon getting to Cape Town Sunday morning, & shall leave again by M...


collection icon NLSAMSC26misc: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous MSC 26/2.25.1: Montague, Nov. 13. 89., This is a little desolate up-country town among the mts. Rocks, rocks, rocks piled all about me. I le...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous MSC 26/2.25.3: Matjesfontein, Please don't write to me again. Your misunderstanding mey friendship so entirely, pains me much. My feeling f...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous MSC 26/2.25.4: There is no royal road to peace, no short cut. "Thou shalt love thy neighbours as thyself "or fight",
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous MSC 26/2.25.5: Matjesfontein, Xmas, 1906, FROM: Olive, TO: Julie,


collection icon NLSAMSC26Moltke: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Dorothy Moltke MSC 26/2.7/12: Continental Hotel, Berlin., Tuesday, Dear Dorothy,, I had a delightful journey yesterday, and came to the "Continental" where...


collection icon NLSAMSC26RuthAlexander: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.1: Dear Ruth Alexander, I shall have to go out into the suburbs on Tuesday & shall cl have to drive straight from there to M...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.2: c/o Haldane Murray E, Portlock, Nr Graaff-Reinet, Nov 30th 1910, Dear Ruth, The photo is splendid; only baby has not come out...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.3: Villa Flandre, Newland, June 11th 1912, Ruth dear, I don't know what you must have thought of me the other day I was half daz...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.4: De Aar, July 16th 1912, Ruth, dear, it seems so long since I heard how the world was going with you., Does the son flourish?, ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.5: Le Grand Hotel et D'Alassio, Alassio, (Riviera, Italia), Alassio, le Feb 14th 1914, Dear Ruth, I think to-day of the sweet Va...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.6: Hotel Augusta Victoria, Bes: J. P. Aletter, Bad Nauheim, Darling Ruth, It was just lovely to get your letter. Yesterday Will ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.7: Llandrindod Wells, Wales, Sunday., My dear Ruth, Yes send me any poems you write & I'll tell you really what I think of t...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.8: Llandrindod Wells, Wales, Aug 22nd 191015, Dear Ruth, I think Solly's picture is sweet: - bursting with intelligence & li...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.9: c/o Standard Bank , 10 Clements Lane , Lombard St, City., Sep 22nd 1917, My darling Ruth, The other day some one told me that...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.10: My darling Ruth, It is all so awful. Oh Ruth its not the fighting its the lying the injustice that is the worst of all & ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.11: 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, Dec 3rd 1917, My darling Ruth, A happy new year to you & yours. You were not at all well ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.12: Dec 14th 1918, My darling Ruth., I was glad to hear from you., You see the the last letter I had from you so many months ago ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.13: Sep 6 Sep 7th 1919, 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, London N, Darling Ruth, it will be so beautiful if you come. It seems to ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.14: Sunday, May 2nd 1920, My darling Ruth thanks you for your wire. I wanted so to send you one, but I was not able to go out, &...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.15: 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, May 12th 1920, My darling Ruth, It was a joy to get your letter from Madeira. When you went I...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.16: TTuesday, My darling Ruth, I hope you are having a lovely change & that your husband is rested. Give him my very kind reg...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.18: London Sep 30th 1916, Do tell me if there is any chance of your coming to England soon. If your mother comes I should like to...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.19: Dear, I hope you are feeling quite strong & yourself again. Is there no chance of your coming here. I am living in one li...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.20: I hope all goes well with you dear Kallenbach writes me he is leaving for the continent He asked after you. We are having rat...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.21: Thank you for the poem & your dear letter. I hope all you wish & plan will come to pass. Oh, Ruth, how beautiful it w...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.22: My darling Ruth, How does it come I never never hear from you. The last letter I had was when you sent me that lovely little ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.23: Ruth dear, I feel so anxious. I never hear from you. Is your health better? all the children well? Drop me a line. I've never...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.24: I long for just a line from you Ruth, my darling child. I wrote to you but the letter was in the ship that was lost. Do tell ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.25: Dear, I've just got a note from your brother saying he'll come & see me next week. I am looking forward so much to seeing...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.26: My lovely lovely jacket has come. Such a priceless comfort it will be to me. I am sailing on August the 13th but it's curious...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.27: Dear , I am so sorry you had to wait yesterday, my heart aches about it I thought I should be back before you came., I was su...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.28: I do hope Solly is better. I would not have dreamed of coming if I had known how ill he was. You have too much on your hands ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.29: It was not a personal matter than made me leave the society, The women of the Cape Colony all women of the Cape Colony, These...


collection icon NLSAMSC26Solomon: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.1: 19 Adam Street, Portman Sq, Monday, Dear Mrs Solomon, My landlady has given me notice to leave at the end of the week I have ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.2: Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens,, W., Dear Mrs Solomon, Daisy mustnt trouble to come & fetch me....
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.3: Dawson Place Mansions, Pembridge Sq, London W., Oct 5th 1916, Dear Mrs Solomon, I have not read Platjes book but will get it ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.4: Alexi,, The Park,, Hampstead., Dawson Place Mansions, Pembridge Sq, Wednesday, Dear Mrs Solomon, Mr Hodgson was delighted wit...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.5: Dear Mrs Solomon, There is a little gathering at my doctors Dr Ettie Sayer , 35 Upper Brooke St, Park Lane. Where a man who h...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.6: Thank you, dear Mrs Solomon for your lovely gift. I love little soft shawls. I would long ago have been to see you if it wasn...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.7: Saturday, My dear Friend, Thank you for your beautiful beautiful gift. I will keep it to wear on board ship, in case I am abl...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.8: Dear Mrs Solomon, I have again mislaid your Tunbridge Wells address I am so anxious to know if all is going well with you. D ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Georgiana Solomon MSC 26/2.13.9: Dear Mrs Solomon, Its so long since I had any news of you I am feeling quite anxious. Do drop me a post card. I hope you are ...


collection icon NLSAMSC27WillSchreiner: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon W.P. Schreiner MSC 27/287: Wagenaars Kraal , Three Sisters , March 26 / 00, Dear Laddy, Thank you for your note, received just now, & the letter of ...
letter icon W.P. Schreiner MSC 27/406: Dear Laddie, What is the true story about the policeman being shot at in your grounds? Is there any truth in it? , There is n...
letter icon W.P. Schreiner MSC 27/564: "Leeuwendal", off De Lorenz St , Cape Town, Dear Will, Could you see that the old man at the door of the Parliament House has...
letter icon W.P. Schreiner MSC 27/1350: De Aar, Oct 18th 1908, Dear Laddie, Thanks for your lines., I am a good bit distressed to hear from Miss Colenso that it appe...


collection icon NLSAMSC47EmmaEarp: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/1A: “Bright Hours and Happy Days be Thine”, “A small card, but a big wish. To...”, Oliver, “With ev...
letter icon E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/2: Alassio, Italy, For Emma, My dear Niece, I must write a line to tell you I have beepaperdamaged glad to hear of your happinpa...
letter icon E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/3: Roseneath, Harpenden, Herts, Sep 20 / 88, My dear Emma,, Thank you very much for the letter which I greatly valued. I liked s...
letter icon E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/4: The Sanatorium, Ceres, Sunday Night, My dear Emma, Thank you so very much for your kind letter. I should have answered it at ...
letter icon E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/5: Sunday , The Homestead, Kimberley, Dear Emma, Thankyou very much for the beautiful likenesses. They are very good. I do hope ...
letter icon E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/6: Dear Emma, Thank you so much for all the trouble you took getting me the rug. I like it very much. You lay yourself open to p...
letter icon E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/7: The Homestead, Dec 2nd 1897, Dear Charley, Only this morning has your wire & the sad news in the papers reached us. It se...
letter icon E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/8: The Homestead, Dec 6 / 97, My dear Emma, You are always in my mind. I am so anxious to get further news of you. No words can ...
letter icon E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/9: So glad of good news Much love to dear Emma. I hope the little son continues to thrive., Olive Schreiner, 4th 1898,
letter icon E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/10: Feb 28th 1906, My dear old Emma, A little bird has told me that I am to be made richer by another little nephew or niece in J...
letter icon E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/11: Dear Emma, Please send the enclosed card to Ely. I've forgotten her address., I hear your Olive is engaged. Is it true? I hop...
letter icon E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/12: 9 Porchester Place, Edgeware Rd, London W., Feb 20th, My darling Emma, Yesterday afternoon I heard that your boy had passed a...


collection icon OSletterstoC-SMSC26.2.16: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon NLSAOlive Schreiner: EL to C-S MSC 26/2.16/84: P.O Uitkyk, Thursday Morning, My husband,, , I had a bad day yesterday with the mierkats. Early in the morning I took them ...
letter icon NLSAOlive Schreiner: EL to C-S MSC 26/2.16/87: [page/s missing], …Miss Molteno & Miss Greene went out for a long walks this morning. When they came back & cam...
letter icon NLSAOlive Schreiner: EL to C-S MSC 26/2.16/148: Saturday Midday., Darling, I just got your letter., Darling don’t come to my sake. If you come to Hanover for business ...
letter icon NLSAOlive Schreiner: EL to C-S MSC 26/2.16/302: 2Hotel Milner, Matjesfontein, Dec. 1st 1906, Saturday morning., I have just got your letter. How like the weather seems here ...
letter icon NLSAOlive Schreiner: EL to C-S MSC 26/2.16/348: [page/s missing], 2, …I have just been reading a story that rather interested me as reminding me of the Boer of the low...


collection icon SCCSBROWNEXTRACT: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/510: …It is strange how slowly hope dies. If one can only accept and die gamely. After all it has been wonderfully beautiful...


collection icon NLSAMSB834OSMisc: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.1: Hanover, Sunday, Dear Dr Wilson, Please let me have my account. I must take this opportunity of thanking you again for your v...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.2: Tuesday, Dear Dr Wilson, I am deeply sorry to hear Mrs Wilson is not improving as you had hoped. I should have sent every day...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.3: Hanover, Wednesday , Dear Mrs Wilson , Please send me a word by the girl if you are still all right. If I could be of any use...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.4: Dear Mrs Wilson , I was simply horrified today to find your cookery books still here. The very day you sent them I gave them ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.5: Dear Mrs Wilson, How sweet of you to send me those lovely vegetables. Mr Schreiner is coming this afternoon & I’ve ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.6: Dear Dr Wilson, I am so sorry to hear you are so unwell. I wish I could be of a little help to you as you have so often been ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.7: Rossyvera, Norfolk Rd, Sea Point, July 21st 1907 , My dear Mrs Wilson, I was so glad to get the good news that your little on...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.8: 19 Adam Street, Portman Squ , London , Feb 18th 1917 , Dear Mrs Wilson , I was so glad to get your letter & have some new...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Unknown MSB 834/1.5.1: 30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, Kensington, Saturday, Dear Sir, I never have "interviews" & I am just leaving for Bad Nauheim...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: F.S. Lewis MSB 834/1.6.1: The Homestead, Dec 25 / 97, Dear Mr Lewis, I am ashamed to trouble you again but necessity must be my excuse. In something I ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: F.S. Lewis MSB 834/1.6.2: The Homestead, Kimberley, Oct 13 / 95, Dear Mr Lewis, My husband is writing a work on the angora goat; there are several book...
letter icon J.H. Hofmeyr MSB 8/Box9/1: 2 Primrose Terrace , Berea Estate , Johannesburg , June 3rd 1899, Dear Mr Hofmeyr, I hope you received the copy of my paper o...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Ellen Sauerlander MSB 834/3.9.1: Grand Hotel, Muizenberg, South Africa. , Dear Mrs Sauerlander , I am sorry to trouble you, but have you a room on the top flo...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Ellen Sauerlander MSB 834/3.9.2: Grand Hotel,, Muizenberg,, South Africa. , Dear Mrs Sauerlander , Thank you so much for your sweet letter. , It is so kind of...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Ellen Sauerlander MSB 834/3.9.3: Dear Mrs Sauerlander , I shall not need the pudding, & fruit again – but I am going to make myself some sour milk, ...
letter icon Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Ellen Sauerlander MSB 834/3.9.4: Tuesday morning , Dear Mrs Sauerlander , I shall be leaving tomorrow morning, Wednesday. Many thanks for all your kindness to...


collection icon NLSAMSC26TOS-OliverSchreinerTypes: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
letter icon Olive Schreiner: MSC 26/2.15/number 62: Oudeberg, Monday night, Dear Son Oliver, My hearty congratulations – but I’m not a bit surprised!! I haven’...