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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold4/1911/11 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 24 May 1911 |
| Address From | De Aar, Northern Cape |
| Address To | Sir Lowry’s Pass, Western Cape |
| Who To | Julia Solly nee Muspratt |
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| 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 address this letter was sent to is provided by an attached envelope.
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De Aar
2 May 24th 1911
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4 Dear Mrs Solly
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6 I’m sorry but I couldn’t possibly sign those letters.
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8 I’ve never mentioned Mrs Macfadyens name even to my dear dear,
9friends the Pethick-Lawrences. It is quite right for you to write them;
10 ^& send them,^ but I should not have mentioned even the name of the
11Citizen’s Club if I had known she was connected with it.
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13 She is the bitterest enemy the natives have. Don’t think I am
14condemning your action. But if I write on the matter at all it will be
15quite an impersonal letter showing how small & cowardly the action of
16all of us h is, who raise the Black Peril cry.
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18 Yours faithfully
19 Olive Schreiner
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2 May 24th 1911
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4 Dear Mrs Solly
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6 I’m sorry but I couldn’t possibly sign those letters.
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8 I’ve never mentioned Mrs Macfadyens name even to my dear dear,
9friends the Pethick-Lawrences. It is quite right for you to write them;
10 ^& send them,^ but I should not have mentioned even the name of the
11Citizen’s Club if I had known she was connected with it.
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13 She is the bitterest enemy the natives have. Don’t think I am
14condemning your action. But if I write on the matter at all it will be
15quite an impersonal letter showing how small & cowardly the action of
16all of us h is, who raise the Black Peril cry.
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18 Yours faithfully
19 Olive Schreiner
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