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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/10
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypePostcard
Letter Date16 February 1914
Address FromGrand Hotel, Alassio, Italy
Address To102 Banbury Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Who ToMargaret Gillett nee Clark
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The Project is grateful to Manuscripts and Archives, University of Cape Town, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner postcard, which is part of its Manuscripts and Archives Collections. The address this postcard was sent to is on its front.
1Grand Hotel
2Alassio
3Riviera
4Italy
5Feb 16th 1914
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7Dear Mrs Gillett.
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9Thanks for your letter. I did get the book just before I left Africa.
10Many thanks for it I should much like to come & see you at Oxford. I
11shall leave this place at the end of this month, when my address will
12be Poste Restante Florence till the beginning of April when I shall
13return to England to my friend Dr Corthorn’s 30 St Mary Abbotts
14Terrace. I’m sorry I wasnt there to see you.
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16Yours very sincerely
17Olive Schreiner
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