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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.105 |
| Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 1 July 1896 |
| Address From | The Homestead, Kimberley, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Mary Sauer nee Cloete |
| Other Versions | Rive 1987: 286 |
| 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.
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1
The Homestead
2 June 30
3 July 1 / 96
4
5 Dear
6
7 I hope you are getting on nicely. You may think it very foolish, but I
8am feeling very anxious lest Rhodes, in his usual underhand way, &
9backed by the big conservatives at home should still bring on a war
10with the Transvaal. I have the same feeling of restless anxiety about
11him that I had about him last November & Dec.: It is so evidently his
12last card. I am divided but a sense of intense pity for the man
13personally, & a feeling of his overpowering wicked-ness & skill.
14
15 Good bye, dear,
16 Olive
17
2 June 30
3 July 1 / 96
4
5 Dear
6
7 I hope you are getting on nicely. You may think it very foolish, but I
8am feeling very anxious lest Rhodes, in his usual underhand way, &
9backed by the big conservatives at home should still bring on a war
10with the Transvaal. I have the same feeling of restless anxiety about
11him that I had about him last November & Dec.: It is so evidently his
12last card. I am divided but a sense of intense pity for the man
13personally, & a feeling of his overpowering wicked-ness & skill.
14
15 Good bye, dear,
16 Olive
17
Notation
Rive's (1987) version omits part of this letter and is also in a number of respects incorrect.
Rive's (1987) version omits part of this letter and is also in a number of respects incorrect.