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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/32
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter DateTuesday 12 August 1913
Address FromDe Aar, Northern 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 De Aar
2 Tuesday
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4 My dear Laddie
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6 I thought your speech on the Woman Question quite good; & it’s
7seldom on that subject that anyone’s speech satisfies me! The
8woman’s question is so truly just a part of the great democratic
9movement, & cannot be rightly looked at or understood in any other way.
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11 I hope you are enjoying to the full the two young ones to the full.
12And I hope they drag you off to golf sometimes.
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14 De Aar won at the great match between the different towns & keeps the
15cup, much to de Aar’s satisfaction. We are still having good weather
16here, but the winds have begun & the summer heat will be on us in a
17few days.
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19 Thy small sister
20 Ol
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