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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1894/11 |
Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Letter |
Letter Date | 27 October 1894 |
Address From | The Homestead, Kimberley, Northern Cape |
Address To | Stone Lodge, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape |
Who To | Jessie Rose Innes nee Dods Pringle |
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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. The address this letter was sent to is provided by an attached envelope.
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The Homestead
2 Oct 27 / 94
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4 I can’t get over the disappointment of our having left Krantz Plaats
5when you passed. I’m all the time sick still, night & day, & I
6can’t write much. I suppose I must quicken in a few days now, & then
7it may get better.
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9 Do you know the Miss Herold who has so awfully died at Cape Town. I
10wonder so much if she is the one who went to England when I went. Who
11is supposed to be the child’s father?
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13 Ach, I wish I could see some of my dear friends, & was not so far from
14you all. Dolly will be quite grown up when I see her next! Good bye.
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16 Thine ever, dear,
17 Olive
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2 Oct 27 / 94
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4 I can’t get over the disappointment of our having left Krantz Plaats
5when you passed. I’m all the time sick still, night & day, & I
6can’t write much. I suppose I must quicken in a few days now, & then
7it may get better.
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9 Do you know the Miss Herold who has so awfully died at Cape Town. I
10wonder so much if she is the one who went to England when I went. Who
11is supposed to be the child’s father?
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13 Ach, I wish I could see some of my dear friends, & was not so far from
14you all. Dolly will be quite grown up when I see her next! Good bye.
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16 Thine ever, dear,
17 Olive
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