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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.11 |
| Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 3 December 1917 |
| Address From | 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London |
| Address To | Kalk Bay, Cape Town, Western Cape |
| Who To | Ruth Alexander nee Schechter |
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| 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 address this letter was sent to is provided by an attached envelope.
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9 Porchester Place
2 Edgware Rd
3 Dec 3rd 1917
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5 My darling Ruth
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7 A happy new year to you & yours. You were not at all well when last
8you wrote & it seems so long, so very long, since I heard of you. Is
9it true your brother is dead?
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11 One doesn't know what to believe to-day the world is so full of lies.
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13 Did you see my little allegory in the Fortnightly Review for November?
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15 Good bye my dear dear friend.
16 Olive
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18 Tell me about the children. Would your husband like me to go & see his
19mother? I should like to go & see her if I had her address.
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2 Edgware Rd
3 Dec 3rd 1917
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5 My darling Ruth
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7 A happy new year to you & yours. You were not at all well when last
8you wrote & it seems so long, so very long, since I heard of you. Is
9it true your brother is dead?
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11 One doesn't know what to believe to-day the world is so full of lies.
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13 Did you see my little allegory in the Fortnightly Review for November?
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15 Good bye my dear dear friend.
16 Olive
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18 Tell me about the children. Would your husband like me to go & see his
19mother? I should like to go & see her if I had her address.
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Notation
For the allegory referred to, see: "Who Knocks at the Door?" Fortnightly Review November 1916, pp.641-5; it also appears in Stories, Dreams and Allegories.
For the allegory referred to, see: "Who Knocks at the Door?" Fortnightly Review November 1916, pp.641-5; it also appears in Stories, Dreams and Allegories.