1 Bude
2 Nov 24th 1915
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4 Dear Alice
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6 I like to think of you & Betty on your little farm, & Betty has her
7little "Town House" of two rooms to go to when she wants a change.
8It’s quite lovely.
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10 I have been very ill since I came here, & am going back to London as
11soon as I can get rooms there Oh for the spring.
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13 Miss Hobhouse is still in London, but leaves for Italy next week. I
14can’t go because having a German name they would harry me.
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16 The worst part of war is not the fighting on battle fields. It’s the
17meanness & cowardice it develops in human nature.
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19 Good bye dear.
20 Yours ever & ever
21 Olive
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23 How does my little Margaretha get on with her lessons. I think she is
24rather a gifted child. Tell me about her. Give my love to dear Anna.
25How I long to see her, but I know there is no hope of my ever seeing
26South Africa again. I am no more use in the world, & yet the end
27doesn’t come. I could have been so happy here in this little house
28with a dear little servant. I had dreamed I should really get stronger
29here & able to write. I’ve so much I want to say. How the body goes
30on living & on living We Schreiners are so strong.
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32 I’m glad you & Betty are not here now this winter seems the most
33terrible I have ever known.
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