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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/23
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypePostcard
Letter Date3 June 1912
Address FromDe Aar, Northern Cape
Address ToKenilworth House, Kenilworth, Cape Town, Western Cape
Who ToCaroline Murray nee 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 postcard, which is part of its Manuscripts and Archives Collections. The date of this postcard is provided by the postmark, and the name of the addressee and the address it was sent to are on its front. Schreiner was resident in De Aar from November 1907 until she left South Africa for Britain and Europe in December 1913, with some fairly lengthy visits elsewhere over this time.
1 I shall arrive in Cape Town Wednesday evening to attend my sisters
2funeral & shall leave directly after it on Monday. If you have been
3able to collect any names for my cable to the England about the
4non-political treatment of the prisoners please send them to Villa
5Flandre Newlands
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