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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Dollie Radford MSC 26/2.10.3 |
| Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Thursday 28 May 1914 |
| Address From | 30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, Kensington, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Dollie Radford nee Maitland |
| 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. The date has been written on this letter in an unknown hand.
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30 St Mary Abbott's Terrace
2 Kensington
3 Thursday
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5 Dear Dollie Radford
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7 I have wanted for so many years to see you. I can't travel by tube on
8account of my heart, & am leaving for ^Bad^ Nauheim in Germany next
9Tuesday Perhaps we shall have to put off our meeting till my return.
10If your house is close to the train ^omnibus^ perhaps I might run up
11when I have a little spare time & take my chance of finding you in. I
12am so uncertain as to health that I can't make sure appointments.
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14 I wonder if you would tell me anything about Eleanor Marx's last years
15& death? No one I have ever met could. Did you see her near the end?
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17 Yours always
18 Olive Schreiner
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2 Kensington
3 Thursday
4
5 Dear Dollie Radford
6
7 I have wanted for so many years to see you. I can't travel by tube on
8account of my heart, & am leaving for ^Bad^ Nauheim in Germany next
9Tuesday Perhaps we shall have to put off our meeting till my return.
10If your house is close to the train ^omnibus^ perhaps I might run up
11when I have a little spare time & take my chance of finding you in. I
12am so uncertain as to health that I can't make sure appointments.
13
14 I wonder if you would tell me anything about Eleanor Marx's last years
15& death? No one I have ever met could. Did you see her near the end?
16
17 Yours always
18 Olive Schreiner
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