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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold3/1917/14 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Thursday 5 April 1917 |
| Address From | 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, 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.
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19 Porchester Place
2Edgware Rd
3Thursday
4
5^Telephone^
66506
7Paddington
8
9Dear old Brother
10
11Have you any news of our boy? You will let me know as soon as you kno
12have any. Will he have reached Bombay before the 23rd?
13
14I’m glad you have Ursie with you. I would have come on Sunday but
15the maid told me you would be out for the day & Ursie was not coming
16till Tuesday.
17
18I’m always thinking of you dear. You don’t know how much you are to me
19
20Olive
21
2Edgware Rd
3Thursday
4
5^Telephone^
66506
7Paddington
8
9Dear old Brother
10
11Have you any news of our boy? You will let me know as soon as you kno
12have any. Will he have reached Bombay before the 23rd?
13
14I’m glad you have Ursie with you. I would have come on Sunday but
15the maid told me you would be out for the day & Ursie was not coming
16till Tuesday.
17
18I’m always thinking of you dear. You don’t know how much you are to me
19
20Olive
21