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Letter ReferenceSchreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/177
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date After Start: Wednesday August 1919 ; Before End: September 1919
Address FromLondon
Address ToMarsh’s Homes, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape
Who ToWynnie Hemming
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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. This letter has been dated by reference to content, around when Fan Schreiner left Britain for South Africa in September 1919. An attached envelope with an illegible postmark provides the address the letter was sent to.
1 Wednesday
2 London
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4 Darling Wynnie
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6 I send you a letter from May Parker - the doctors wife at Llandrindod
7wrote me when Uncle Will died. You can show it to Effie & Alice &c if
8they care to see it but return it. Aunt Fan & the others leave in 7
9days. It seem terrible to think I shall not see them again.
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11 Much love to you dear
12 Your small Aunt
13 Olive
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