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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/4
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date26 January 1914
Address FromGrand Hotel, Alassio, Italy
Address To
Who ToLucy Molteno nee Mitchell
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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. This letter is written on printed headed notepaper.
1Le Grand Hotel et D’Alassio
2Alassio
3Riviera, Italie
4
5Jan 26th 1914
6
7Dear Lucy,
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9I don’t know Miss Hobhouse’s address or where Betty is would you
10mind sending these two notes on to them You can read both if you care.
11
12I hope you are still feeling the benefit of your trip.
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14I am staying alone at this hotel in Alassio till the weather gets a
15little more normal & I can return to Florence. I went to see that
16lovely place of which you gave me the address but I could not manage
17the work every day, as I would have to do if I went to Carloni.
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19All my thoughts are in Africa in this time of trouble & unrest.
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21Good bye, dear. I so often think of your goodness to me when I was at
22Muizenburg this time last year
23Olive
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25^Where is Miss Hobhouse staying & how is she? Does she return to Europe soon.^
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