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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/3 |
Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Letter |
Letter Date | 22 July 1915 |
Address From | Kensington Palace Mansions, De Vere Gardens, Kensington, London |
Address To | |
Who To | William 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. The letter is on printed headed notepaper.
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1Telephone: 3675 Kensington.
2Telegrams: Apartment, London.
3
4Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,
5De Vere Gardens, W.
6
7My dear Laddie
8
9I am too ill to go to that place at Hampstead, & next week shall leave
10as soon as I can do my packing of Llandrindod in Wales. Where there
11are baths & electric treatment The stone in my kidney is very bad I
12often have attack of pain like that I had at Muizenburg when you & Fan
13came to see. I may have to go to a nursing home. I had hoped so to
14keep about to the end; not like Ellie.
15
16I know my darling boy is doing what he thinks right. It’s been such
17a pleasure to me to see Fan.
18
19Your old sister
20Olive
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22I may get much better when I get to Llandrindod, but I have been
23getting steadily worse the last year.
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2Telegrams: Apartment, London.
3
4Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel,
5De Vere Gardens, W.
6
7My dear Laddie
8
9I am too ill to go to that place at Hampstead, & next week shall leave
10as soon as I can do my packing of Llandrindod in Wales. Where there
11are baths & electric treatment The stone in my kidney is very bad I
12often have attack of pain like that I had at Muizenburg when you & Fan
13came to see. I may have to go to a nursing home. I had hoped so to
14keep about to the end; not like Ellie.
15
16I know my darling boy is doing what he thinks right. It’s been such
17a pleasure to me to see Fan.
18
19Your old sister
20Olive
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22I may get much better when I get to Llandrindod, but I have been
23getting steadily worse the last year.
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