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Letter ReferenceKarl Pearson 840/4/2/52-53
ArchiveUniversity College London Library, Special Collections, UCL, London
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date8 May 1886
Address FromSt Dominic?s Convent, Mutrix Road, Kilburn, London
Address To2 Harcourt Buildings, Temple, London
Who ToKarl Pearson
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The Project is grateful to University College London (UCL) and its Library Services for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Special Collections. The date of this postcard is provided by the postmark, while the name of the addressee and the address it was sent to are on its front.
1 St Dominics Convent
2 Mutrix Rd
3 Kilburn
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5 There is to be at 7 o’clock Monday eve. next, at 1 Adam St, Adelphi,
6Strand
, a meeting of the New Life. Frei, a Russian friend of
7Tchykovsky’s is going to discourse on his socialistic experiences in
8America. Will you not come? I shall be there at seven but have to
9leave again at eight.
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11 I hope it has been a good time abroad.
12 O.S.
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14 ^Have just remembered that tomorrow Monday is the Woll. Club. Came out
15from the Theatre this afternoon pressed under your elbow; but you have
16to look down such a long way to see me that I suppose I was invisible.^
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