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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/23
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter DateFriday 8 May 1914
Address From30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, Kensington, London
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. Content indicates the name of the addressee. Schreiner was resident in St Mary Abbotts Terrace for some weeks during April and May 1914.
1 Friday
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3 Sending on a letter for you, dear old man. I hope you are having a
4real good time in your old haunts & with the two. I wrote a note to
5Fan today.
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7It was very good going with you to the theatre last night. I enjoyed
8it more than anything since I came to London. Mrs Ayrton wrote to
9invite me to lunch which with her & the Zangwills on Sunday. But I
10must go to the Pethick Lawrences who are coming to motor me out to
11their place on Sunday morning I shall be back in time on Monday
12afternoon.
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14 Love to the two.
15 Olive
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