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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/27 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 1908 |
| Address From | De Aar, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Julia Solly nee Muspratt |
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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 year has been written on this letter in an unknown hand. Schreiner was resident in De Aar from November 1907 until she left South Africa for Britain and Europe in December 1913, but with some fairly lengthy visits elsewhere over this time.
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Dear Mrs Solly
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3 I think your little pamphlet on ‘The Legal Side of the Purity
4Question’ so good.
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6 Could not a copy be sent to each member of Parliament?
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8 Yours ever
9 Olive Schreiner
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11 PS.
12 I hope you understood what I meant about the W.C.T.U. I think it a
13fine & most useful organisation; though I could not join it; & Miss
14Willard was a great friend of mine, from whom I possess many beautiful
15letters though I never met her in the beay body. I am looking forward
16to seeing you in Cape Town.
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3 I think your little pamphlet on ‘The Legal Side of the Purity
4Question’ so good.
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6 Could not a copy be sent to each member of Parliament?
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8 Yours ever
9 Olive Schreiner
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11 PS.
12 I hope you understood what I meant about the W.C.T.U. I think it a
13fine & most useful organisation; though I could not join it; & Miss
14Willard was a great friend of mine, from whom I possess many beautiful
15letters though I never met her in the beay body. I am looking forward
16to seeing you in Cape Town.
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Notation
The pamphlet referred to is: Julia F. Solly (1907) The Legal Side of the Purity Question Cape Town: WCTU.
The pamphlet referred to is: Julia F. Solly (1907) The Legal Side of the Purity Question Cape Town: WCTU.