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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/22
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter DateSunday 27 April 1908
Address FromMatjesfontein, Western Cape
Address To
Who ToWilliam Philip ('Will') Schreiner
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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 date has been written on this letter in an unknown hand.
1 Matjesfontain
2 Sunday night
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4 Dear Laddie
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6 I hope thy cold is better. I am as a sparrow upon a house top but
7breathing easier. My heart is in de Aar with my old man who arrives
8there tonight.
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10 Ollie sleeps peacefully on the bed, the meerkats in the box.
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12 Good night
13 Thy small sister
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15 Take ammoniated tincture of Quinine
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