1 Matjesfontein
2 Sep 25 / 92
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4 My dear Mary,
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6 Thank you for your letter. I'd been meaning to write any how - though
7I've no news. I get up every morning before six, go for a walk, go
8over to have breakfast & get my letters, & for the rest sit here &
9read & write.
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11 About England. My darling you will never be anything but a pleasure to
12me any where; my only fear is you might be disappointed. A young girl
13with no home or ties I know would be happy; but if you leave your
14husband & children ^& home^ perhaps you wont find England even for a few
15months as nice as Kenilworth. We lonely women march about the world &
16one place is much like another to us!!
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18 I may have to go to America almost at once to see about the publishing
19& copyrights there, but if I can get Mr Will to manage my business, &
20he seems trust worthy I shall leave it all to him, & shall stay in
21London & Paris or go down the Rhine, which you would love.
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23 I know by experience I can make a woman so perfectly happy who lives
24with me, if she hasn't got a home of her own, she never wants to go
25away again, - though I am such a dry person - but I should be so
26afraid that you would get "home sick." Next winter, I mean the Xmas
27after next, I want to go to Greece, & at the end of the winter on to
28Egypt.
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30 I'm so well again & getting on nicely with my work, but the last days
31have been cold & damp.
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33 I hope you will have a fine day for Ceres. I leave next Sunday for
34Kimberley but shall only stay a couple of days.
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36 Why can't you & Ella Shippard come on here on Sunday morning & go on
37to Kimberley with me; it's only £3,0,0 return fare from here. We
38would have a fine time.
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40 Good bye.
41 Thine
42 Olive
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44 I like so exceedingly that article of Miss Shaw's on Basuto-land the
45only one I've seen. I wish I had met her in Town.
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