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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.7 |
| Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 20 November 1919 |
| Address From | 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Anna Purcell nee Cambier Faure |
| Other Versions | |
| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| Legend |
The Project is grateful to the National Library of South Africa (NLSA), Cape Town, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Special Collections. Schreiner was resident at Porchester Place from early April 1917 until August 1920, when she left Britain for South Africa.
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Nov 20th 1919
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3 My darling darling Anna
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5 Cron has just sent me your two letters to him. Oh if I could be with
6you, dear, that's my one feeling; it's so hard be be so far from you.
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8 Yes, how he will always seem to us who knew him a part of the veld &
9of nature. He You know the Grammarian's Funeral is the poem I love
10best in the world. My dear little sister-in-law you will have seen by
11this time. She feels Wills death very terribly. My heart seems to
12cling to her more than any humanbeing in the world now Will has gone,
13& all the people who made my childhood & youth have passed away. Do
14ask Walter to write & tell me all your news, if you don't feel
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16^able to^
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18Olive
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20 ^The winter here is very terrible.^
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3 My darling darling Anna
4
5 Cron has just sent me your two letters to him. Oh if I could be with
6you, dear, that's my one feeling; it's so hard be be so far from you.
7
8 Yes, how he will always seem to us who knew him a part of the veld &
9of nature. He You know the Grammarian's Funeral is the poem I love
10best in the world. My dear little sister-in-law you will have seen by
11this time. She feels Wills death very terribly. My heart seems to
12cling to her more than any humanbeing in the world now Will has gone,
13& all the people who made my childhood & youth have passed away. Do
14ask Walter to write & tell me all your news, if you don't feel
15
16^able to^
17
18Olive
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20 ^The winter here is very terrible.^
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Notation
Schreiner's reference is to Robert Browning's 'The Grammarian's Funeral' in his (1911) Men and Women Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Schreiner's reference is to Robert Browning's 'The Grammarian's Funeral' in his (1911) Men and Women Oxford: Clarendon Press.