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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold4/1918/31 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Wednesday 1918 |
| 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 year has been written on this letter in an unknown hand. Schreiner was resident at Porchester Place from early April 1917 until August 1920, when she left Britain for South Africa.
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1Wednesday
2
3Dear Laddie
4
5I send you the solution. I can’t make head or tail of it. I don’t know
6how one reads them It seems you sacrifice the Queen.
7
8The dinner was deadly dull the other night, quite different from any
9we ever had before. Politics were never allowed to be even mentioned &
10they just sang & recited & joked & shouted in real student fashion.
11After you were gone, when the different guests were mentioned by Miss
12Krause your name was much more cheered than any one elses.
13
14I wonder if you have any letters by the boat that brought Bothe? I
15have got none – not a line. I hope there’s good news from Bill.
16
17Ol
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2
3Dear Laddie
4
5I send you the solution. I can’t make head or tail of it. I don’t know
6how one reads them It seems you sacrifice the Queen.
7
8The dinner was deadly dull the other night, quite different from any
9we ever had before. Politics were never allowed to be even mentioned &
10they just sang & recited & joked & shouted in real student fashion.
11After you were gone, when the different guests were mentioned by Miss
12Krause your name was much more cheered than any one elses.
13
14I wonder if you have any letters by the boat that brought Bothe? I
15have got none – not a line. I hope there’s good news from Bill.
16
17Ol
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