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| Letter Reference | Autograph Letters Collection: Alys Pearsall Smith ALC/7/3/13 |
| Archive | National Women's Library, London |
| Epistolary Type | Postcard |
| Letter Date | 7 January 1889 |
| Address From | Mentone, France |
| Address To | Hotel du Louvre, Mentone, France |
| Who To | Alys Pearsall Smith m. Russell (1894) |
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| Legend |
The Project is grateful to the National Women's Library, London, for allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner postcard, which is part of its Autograph Collections. The date of the postcard is provided by the postmark and the address it was sent to is on its front. Schreiner stayed in Mentone in January and February 1889.
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Thankyou, would have liked so much to go, but went out early this
2morning to my favourite place among the fir trees, only got back at 1
3to find your card too late! I hope the music was nice. I went once, &
4enjoyed it intensely.
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6 //I hope your cousin didn't take the cold the other night. She looked
7as if she were feling it, & I might have got her a cloak. You have to
8take care when you first come to the Riviera of the evening chill.
9Your flowers are still lovely.
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11 Olive Schreiner
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13 ^It is so nice to think you are in Mentone.^
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2morning to my favourite place among the fir trees, only got back at 1
3to find your card too late! I hope the music was nice. I went once, &
4enjoyed it intensely.
5
6 //I hope your cousin didn't take the cold the other night. She looked
7as if she were feling it, & I might have got her a cloak. You have to
8take care when you first come to the Riviera of the evening chill.
9Your flowers are still lovely.
10
11 Olive Schreiner
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13 ^It is so nice to think you are in Mentone.^
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