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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold4/Jan-June1915/15 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Monday March 1915 |
| Address From | Kensington Palace Mansions, De Vere Gardens, Kensington, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | William Philip ('Will') Schreiner |
| 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. The letter is on printed headed notepaper.
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1Telephone: 3675 Kensington.
2Telegrams: Apartment, London.
3
4Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,
5De Vere Gardens, W.
6
7Monday
8
9Dear Laddie
10
11I hope you had a good time at your old Cambridge. I saw Adela last
12week. She looks a little better but not much. She sent her love to you.
13
14Cron says the heat has never been so awful at de Aar as it is this
15summer, & there are 5,000 horses & & mules there running in the small
16bit of Town veld; it is like one vast stable, all the dust is organic,
17& that I would die there in two days.
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19The future is pretty blank to me; I just go on living from day to day.
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21Good bye, dear. Hope you have good news from the Cape & Ursie.
22Your small sister
23Ol
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25Rather a funny thing happened to-day. I’ve not seen or heard of Miss
26Brackenbury for three or four ^six^ months, & to-day & the last week
27have suddenly been always thinking of her wondering if she was keeping
28well & feeling I must go & see her. This afternoon I started off to
29see her but when I got to the foot of the hill I felt too tired to
30walk up it, & turned back & took an omnibus to Piccadilli & had my tea
31there at Lyons as usual. When I got in the first thing I saw was this
32card from her – she must have been thinking of me just as I had of her!
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34It’s very curious how these things are always happening to me.
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2Telegrams: Apartment, London.
3
4Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,
5De Vere Gardens, W.
6
7Monday
8
9Dear Laddie
10
11I hope you had a good time at your old Cambridge. I saw Adela last
12week. She looks a little better but not much. She sent her love to you.
13
14Cron says the heat has never been so awful at de Aar as it is this
15summer, & there are 5,000 horses & & mules there running in the small
16bit of Town veld; it is like one vast stable, all the dust is organic,
17& that I would die there in two days.
18
19The future is pretty blank to me; I just go on living from day to day.
20
21Good bye, dear. Hope you have good news from the Cape & Ursie.
22Your small sister
23Ol
24
25Rather a funny thing happened to-day. I’ve not seen or heard of Miss
26Brackenbury for three or four ^six^ months, & to-day & the last week
27have suddenly been always thinking of her wondering if she was keeping
28well & feeling I must go & see her. This afternoon I started off to
29see her but when I got to the foot of the hill I felt too tired to
30walk up it, & turned back & took an omnibus to Piccadilli & had my tea
31there at Lyons as usual. When I got in the first thing I saw was this
32card from her – she must have been thinking of me just as I had of her!
33
34It’s very curious how these things are always happening to me.
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