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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/41 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Monday 8 June 1908 |
| Address From | De Aar, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Caroline Murray nee Molteno |
| Other Versions | |
| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| Legend |
The Project is grateful to Manuscripts and Archives, University of Cape Town, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Manuscripts and Archives Collections. The date has been written on this letter in an unknown hand.
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de Aar
2 Monday
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4 Dear Mrs Murray
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6 My husband was after all able to go. I had a wire from him yesterday
7to say the operation had been gone through successfully but as he is
8staying till Wednesday I fear there must be some danger.
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10 Thank you so much for being willing to have me.
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12 We shall probably arrive in town on the 17th going to our old quarters
13at Tamboer’s Kloof. Eastbergholt, Tamboer’s Kloof Rd. I want Betty
14& Alice Greene to come out & help us with our suffrage work! I am so
15busy trying to get my little house right before I leave.
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17 Yours affectly
18 Olive Schreiner
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2 Monday
3
4 Dear Mrs Murray
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6 My husband was after all able to go. I had a wire from him yesterday
7to say the operation had been gone through successfully but as he is
8staying till Wednesday I fear there must be some danger.
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10 Thank you so much for being willing to have me.
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12 We shall probably arrive in town on the 17th going to our old quarters
13at Tamboer’s Kloof. Eastbergholt, Tamboer’s Kloof Rd. I want Betty
14& Alice Greene to come out & help us with our suffrage work! I am so
15busy trying to get my little house right before I leave.
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17 Yours affectly
18 Olive Schreiner
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