1 The Homestead
2 April 17 / 95
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4 Dear Mary
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6 I am still all right. On Sunday night as I was driving my little
7servant girl home from Kimberley, where she had been for her Sunday
8"outing," a cart of full drunken miners ran into us about two miles
9from Kimberley, & smashed up our trap. We were both thrown out. I was
10insensible for a little while; but am all right now. I felt sure as I
11felt myself falling that the baby would be killed. But I think it's
12all right.
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14 I have I've got the old bakers wife who lives below our garden to
15arrange to send up the meals for Cron & the nurse while I'm ill, so
16that my little maid gets time to clean the house & wash my things, & I
17hoped she might be able to take you & board you, but they haven't any
18room. at all, & all the other neighbours are so low & dirty one
19would^n't^ like to be in their houses. I hope don't know anything about
20Kimberley as I never go there except to get my letters or a book at
21the library. I've never put my foot in any house where but the Queen's
22& Central Hotels when I stayed there; & the doctors consulting rooms;
23but there must be many nice boarding houses. Shall I make inquiries?
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25 I fancy that I can feel in your letters that you have changed; have
26developed. It will be so delightful to see you, dear, if you can come
27but now your sister has gone & if you are not going to stay at the
28Wilkins, I am so afraid it won't be nice for you! I wish so much I
29could come down to Cape Town as soon as I am able to travel; but I
30feel it very I must go & see my old mother in Grahamstown because if
31she died without seeing the baby I should feel so reproached. I hoped
32I should be able to travel when the baby was four weeks old, but the
33doctor says I shall have to wait till its six weeks. Cron's old mother
34is coming to see the baby as soon as the nurse leaves. She wanted to
35come & be with me, but I couldn't make her comfortable till I'm about.
36She's a dear old soul. I don't think she would ever get to understand
37me personally but as "Cron's wife" she thinks I am wonderful.
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39 ^I like all his brothers & sisters that I've seen. Two of his brothers
40I really love, & that's so nice, & Cron likes all my friends. I think
41nothing would be harder to me than to live with a ?humanbeing who did
42not share my tastes in human beings.
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44 Good bye dear one. I'm too stupid to write any tiny thing
45 Olive^
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