1 Krantz Plaats
2 Halesowen
3 Aug 1st
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5 Darling Mary
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7 I sent you a wire this morning about nurse. It suddenly struck me what
8you had said about her leaving you because the children were getting
9too old for her, & that possibly she might be willing to come to me. I
10would give her £2.10. a month or even three, & do all I could to make
11her happy. You see it would be worth my while to pay her more than it
12would be ^worth^ other people's, because in one month if I had a servant
13who would take the housekeeping ^entirely^ off my hands & see after
14everything I should earn a thousand times her keep in the month.
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16 If she has ch
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18 We shall not get away from Krantz Plaats till the end of this week or
19the beginning of next as the house in Kimberley is not ready.
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21 It's bad staying on when everything is packed up.
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23 You must come to Kimberley, Mary what when I'm there. I long to see
24you so.
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26 My house is so tiny, only four rooms, that I shan't have a spare room
27at first, but as soon as we decide to buy it we shall build on. I'm so
28happy, dear, with my companion. We seem to become greater & greater
29chums ever day. I am having my real honeymoon now.
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31 You won't mind my asking about nurse; its only in case she left is
32leaving you. I haven't got any kind of a servant at all yet. I wish
33you could have come to see us here.
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35 Thine Olive
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37 P.S. Have you seen or heard anything of Mrs White - Maud Cameron -
38since her marriage? I've not heard from her for so long I'm quite
39anxious. I wish I could see you & the children too. It would be a
40close bond between me & nurse that she had loved you all so.
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