1 Hanover
2 Feb 18 / 06
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4 Dear Friend
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6 I just love the photographs. Of course I would like you will broad
7smile on! That is you! I always think of you so. Your smile is a kind
8of revelation of your inner-self, as though a door suddenly open & a
9light flashed out, - & then when the smile end it closes again, but
10one knows what one has seen!
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12 It is so nice to have your two dear faces together. It is so beautiful
13that I am able to love you both so that my love for one never seems
14interrupted by my love for the other, & I know you both love me. I
15don’t mind Miss Molteno’s face being not smiling because I always
16think of her with just the look she has in that side-face picture. Its
17just a perfect picture of hers: yours is very good but it could be
18more you. The full faced one looks so sad, & almost as though a great
19weight were resting on you.
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21 // Hasn’t this been a terrible for murder dis-covery in Cape Town?
22As far as one can judge the man seems to have killed ten or twelve
23people at least at different times including his father & mother. He
24lives quite near to my brother Will’s.
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26 My heart has been very bad for a week I’ve had to be lying down all
27the time except when I got up to cook a little, but today it’s
28better, & its such a lovely day, the first cool, clear, fresh day
29we’ve had for months & one rejoices so in it.
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31 Olive
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33 ^I got a letter from dear old General Butler today saying he will come
34& spend some days at Hanover on his way down from the Transvaal^
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36 ^You & Miss Molteno have sent me different addresses as see inclosed!^
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