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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.26 |
Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Postcard |
Letter Date | 1 June 1920 |
Address From | 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London |
Address To | St James, Cape Town, Western Cape |
Who To | Ruth Alexander nee Schechter |
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Legend |
The Project is grateful to the National Library of South Africa (NLSA), Cape Town, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner postcard, which is part of its Special Collections. The date is provided by the postmark on this postcard, although this is not fully legible, and the name of the addressee and address it was sent to are on its front. Schreiner was resident at Porchester Place from early April 1917 until August 1920, when she left Britain for South Africa.
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My lovely lovely jacket has come. Such a priceless comfort it will be
2to me. I am sailing on August the 13th but it's curious I have such a
3terrible forebody foreboding feeling about the voyage & about going
4out. A kind of horror, but I can't stay here another winter & there
5are your dear faces shining in South Africa.
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7 My dear love to you
8 Olive
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2to me. I am sailing on August the 13th but it's curious I have such a
3terrible forebody foreboding feeling about the voyage & about going
4out. A kind of horror, but I can't stay here another winter & there
5are your dear faces shining in South Africa.
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7 My dear love to you
8 Olive
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