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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/47 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Monday 14 December 1915 |
| Address From | 30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, Kensington, London |
| Address To | 59 Cadogan Square, Knightsbridge, London |
| Who To | Frances (‘Fan’) Schreiner nee Reitz |
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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 date of this letter has been derived from the postmark on an attached envelope, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner was resident at St Mary Abbotts Terrace from December 1915 to late February 1916.
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1Monday
2
3Dear old Sister
4
5I know how you are counting the days till Saturday. It’s ridiculous
6but one feels more anxious now that when there was no talk of his
7coming soon!
8
9^1)^ My friend, Mrs Smith, Adela Villiers wants so to call on you. Have
10you an at home day? Its a great exertion for her to get out she would
11be disappointed if she called & you were out.
12
132) I meant to fetch my box & portmanteau when I called the other day
14^but quite forgot at the end^ You must be so terribly full up its too
15bad to have left them so long, I’ll come & fetch them before Oll Ol
16comes.
17
18Have you h-ad Cape letters I wonder? I have had none!
19
20Don’t trouble to write a letter just send P. Card.
21
22Yours ever
23Olive
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2
3Dear old Sister
4
5I know how you are counting the days till Saturday. It’s ridiculous
6but one feels more anxious now that when there was no talk of his
7coming soon!
8
9^1)^ My friend, Mrs Smith, Adela Villiers wants so to call on you. Have
10you an at home day? Its a great exertion for her to get out she would
11be disappointed if she called & you were out.
12
132) I meant to fetch my box & portmanteau when I called the other day
14^but quite forgot at the end^ You must be so terribly full up its too
15bad to have left them so long, I’ll come & fetch them before Oll Ol
16comes.
17
18Have you h-ad Cape letters I wonder? I have had none!
19
20Don’t trouble to write a letter just send P. Card.
21
22Yours ever
23Olive
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