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Letter ReferenceLevine Collection/22
ArchiveRonald Levine Collection, Johannesburg
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date After Start: Monday April 1917 ; Before End: December 1917
Address From9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London
Address To
Who ToMargaret Moscheles
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Legend
The Project is grateful to Ronald Levine for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of the Ronald Levine Collection. This letter can be dated around the death of Felix Moscheles in December 1917. Schreiner was resident at Porchester Place from early April 1917 until August 1920, when she left Britain for South Africa.
^1Telephone
26906
3Paddington^
4
59 Porchester Place
6Monday
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8Dear Mrs Moscheles
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10Mrs Greene & I did so enjoy the afternoon with you.
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12Could you give me the name & address of that interesting actress in
13the black dress. I think she said it was ‘Hanburg’ but am not sure. I
14want to ask her to tea some afternoon.
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16I did not like to trouble your dear husband to talk much as he looked
17so frail. How wonderfully he keeps the clear blue light in his eyes,
18as clear as a child’s. “Blessed are the pure in heart” they make me
19think.
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21I am going to spend the week end with the Schutzes, in their country
22cottage.
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24Yours with love & thanks for a delightful afternoon
25Olive Schreiner
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