"Thrown away 10 years of my life to prevent inevitable" Read the full letter
| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Hermann Kallenbach MSC 26/2.3.13 |
| Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | December 1914 |
| Address From | Kensington Palace Mansions, De Vere Gardens, Kensington, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Hermann Kallenbach |
| 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 month and year have been written on this letter in an unknown hand. The letter is on printed headed notepaper.
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Kensington Palace Mansions
2 De Vere Gardens, W.
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4 Dear Mr Kallenbach
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6 I am so very sorry you can't get to India to your friends. I know how
7lonely you must be. We can only hope the war will soon be over.
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9 Don't forget when you return the book to let me pay you the 4/- or
10what ever it was it cost. You ought to have let me pay you for my
11ticket. When we go again you must.
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13 Yours ever with much more deep sympathy than I express
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15 OS
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2 De Vere Gardens, W.
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4 Dear Mr Kallenbach
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6 I am so very sorry you can't get to India to your friends. I know how
7lonely you must be. We can only hope the war will soon be over.
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9 Don't forget when you return the book to let me pay you the 4/- or
10what ever it was it cost. You ought to have let me pay you for my
11ticket. When we go again you must.
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13 Yours ever with much more deep sympathy than I express
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15 OS
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