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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/8 |
Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Letter |
Letter Date | Wednesday 6 March 1912 |
Address From | Alexandra Hotel, Muizenberg, Western Cape |
Address To | Sandown Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape |
Who To | Lucy Molteno nee Mitchell |
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Legend |
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 of this letter has been derived from the postmark on an attached envelope, which also provides the address it was sent to. The letter is written on printed headed notepaper with a picture of the hotel and beach, with the envelope having the same picture.
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Alexandra Hotel
2 Muizenberg
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4 Wednesday
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6 Darling Lucy,
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8 I started to see you yesterday, but when I got to Rondebosch I was so
9faint I had just wait for the next train & come home.
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11 Jessie Innes has promised me her motor car to come & see you next
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14 Good bye darling Lucy
15 Olive
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17 I am just starting off to Blauwberg to see my sister, who is very bad.
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2 Muizenberg
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4 Wednesday
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6 Darling Lucy,
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8 I started to see you yesterday, but when I got to Rondebosch I was so
9faint I had just wait for the next train & come home.
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11 Jessie Innes has promised me her motor car to come & see you next
12Tuesday
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14 Good bye darling Lucy
15 Olive
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17 I am just starting off to Blauwberg to see my sister, who is very bad.
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