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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/6 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 21 January 1913 |
| Address From | Grand Hotel, Muizenberg, Western Cape |
| Address To | Sandown Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape |
| Who To | Lucy Molteno nee Mitchell |
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| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| 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 on printed headed notepaper.
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Grand Hotel,
2 Muizenberg,
3 South Africa
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5 My dear Lucy
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7 I am always longing to see you & the dear children again. But once
8fixed here one never seems able to get out, one dreads the long train
9journey in the heat.
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11 Today has been very hot even here, but my little room is cool as it
12looks a ways from the sun
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14 I’m going to try & see Betty & Miss Greene this week; it’s so bad
15to think I’m go so near them & never see them. They are two
16wonderful & beautiful souls.
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18 If ever you should come out to Muizenberg, I’ve got a big wide
19balcony where we could sit & talk & have a glimps of the sea.
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21 Good bye dear. My tender love to you
22 Olive
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2 Muizenberg,
3 South Africa
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5 My dear Lucy
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7 I am always longing to see you & the dear children again. But once
8fixed here one never seems able to get out, one dreads the long train
9journey in the heat.
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11 Today has been very hot even here, but my little room is cool as it
12looks a ways from the sun
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14 I’m going to try & see Betty & Miss Greene this week; it’s so bad
15to think I’m go so near them & never see them. They are two
16wonderful & beautiful souls.
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18 If ever you should come out to Muizenberg, I’ve got a big wide
19balcony where we could sit & talk & have a glimps of the sea.
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21 Good bye dear. My tender love to you
22 Olive
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