1 Sep Hanover
2 Oct 3 / 00
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4 Dear Friend
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6 After the sharp frosty night there was an absolutely perfect day. It
7was too cold to sit & write in our rooms so after breakfast we started
8off with Neta for a walk of almost three miles to the foot of the
9highest hill for 50 miles round. We climbed a round koppje in the
10middle of the vast plain & lay on it a couple of hours; you can see
11100 miles on either hand.
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13 It was just beautiful lying in the sun. There were numbers of
14butterflies on the top, we counted four kinds; one lovely ?long
15butterfly I have never seen before as big as a moth, & of a lovely
16spotted green. We startled a little red hare too coming down, which
17was of a kind I saw also for the first time. I wished you could both
18have been there.
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20 I have been asked by the women in Somerset East to go there to a
21woman’s meeting. I can’t afford to go, but will write them a short
22speech to read. Can’t you send them something? I have not been as
23well as this for many years, not since I wrote Peter Halket; I can
24walk so well in this high dry air. When we were on top of the Spitz
25Kop we must have been ^over^ five thousand feet above the sea. I’ve
26got a fire in my room tonight as its very cold & am just going to bed.
27The village is very live, all the willow trees in their fresh spring
28green.
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30 Good bye. I do hope Miss Greene is quite better.
31 Olive
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