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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.3 |
| Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 25 December 1890 |
| Address From | Matjesfontein, Western Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Mary Sauer nee Cloete |
| Other Versions | Rive 1987: 183 |
| 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 year has been written on this letter in an unknown hand.
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1
Matjesfontein
2 Xmas Day.
3
4 Dear Mrs Sauer
5
6 I hope you are having a beautiful time with the children. I was so
7happy on the journey & all the time, I have never enjoyed myself so
8much, & yet I am so glad to be back here in my own little room.
9
10 Thank you for all your great kindness to me; I should have been so
11lonely without you.
12
13 Will you please do something for me, buy a little wedding present for
14Miss Van ?Outshoorn with for about £1. I don't know her address; & I
15don't know what she's got already, I think a table unreadable ring
16would be nice. Please give it her. I'll send the money tomorrow.
17
18 I think I shall be coming down on the last of the month, perhaps a
19little later, it all depends on the news I get. You must tell me if
20you have other visitors & then I'll come & see you, instead of staying
21with you.
22
23 All good be with you, dear. Don't want to feel anymore you feel quite
24enough. If once the floodgates are broken down you'll be sorry & wish
25they were up again. Thank you for your goodness to me.
26
27 Olive Schreiner
28
29 Remember me kindly to Mr Sauer please
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2 Xmas Day.
3
4 Dear Mrs Sauer
5
6 I hope you are having a beautiful time with the children. I was so
7happy on the journey & all the time, I have never enjoyed myself so
8much, & yet I am so glad to be back here in my own little room.
9
10 Thank you for all your great kindness to me; I should have been so
11lonely without you.
12
13 Will you please do something for me, buy a little wedding present for
14Miss Van ?Outshoorn with for about £1. I don't know her address; & I
15don't know what she's got already, I think a table unreadable ring
16would be nice. Please give it her. I'll send the money tomorrow.
17
18 I think I shall be coming down on the last of the month, perhaps a
19little later, it all depends on the news I get. You must tell me if
20you have other visitors & then I'll come & see you, instead of staying
21with you.
22
23 All good be with you, dear. Don't want to feel anymore you feel quite
24enough. If once the floodgates are broken down you'll be sorry & wish
25they were up again. Thank you for your goodness to me.
26
27 Olive Schreiner
28
29 Remember me kindly to Mr Sauer please
30
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.