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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold2/1909/9
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date8 February 1909
Address FromMatjesfontein, Western Cape
Address To
Who ToBetty Molteno
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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.
1 Matjesfontein
2 Feb 8th 1909
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4 Dear Friend
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6 I wonder if you are coming out you will have to make a close & hard
7bargain with Logan if you do take this place. He is a Jew in the bad
8sense.
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10 I enclose a note of Cron’s which will give you all his news. Destroy
11when read. I think he is happy at de Aar, the heat is the draw back.
12He feels it as every one must, even the strongest man, but in many
13ways his health is better than ever before. He never has that unending
14rheumatism & head ache he had when we were first married.
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16 I am getting better here. Love to Alice, share this note with her.
17I’ll write a real letter next week.
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19 Olive
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21 ^Did I tell you that Constance Lytton had joined Mrs Pethick-Lawrence &
22the suffragettes?^
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