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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/46 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Sunday 5 December 1915 |
| Address From | 30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, Kensington, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | William Philip ('Will') Schreiner |
| Other Versions | |
| 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 has been written on this letter in an unknown hand.
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130 St Mary Abbotts Terrace
2Kensington
3London W.
4
5My dear old Man
6
7Please send me Bill’s address. I want to send him the Xmas card that
8he says only I, Charly, ?Gee & Aunt Kitty send him!
9
10I am finding the London air a great improvement on Bude.
11
12I’d not I’m quite of the way of troubling Alice or the child as I live
13entirely in my little room on the top floor, have my “box” here & see
14my friends here, & she’s glad of the money. I never see her unless she
15comes up to see me ^in my room^. In her worried condition its much
16better for her not to be worried with visitors.
17
18Give my love to Plum Lewis when you write to him, & tell him I hope to
19meet him in London some day. I hope you & Fan have got out for a week
20end. The weather is so fine today
21
22Ol
23Sunday morning
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2Kensington
3London W.
4
5My dear old Man
6
7Please send me Bill’s address. I want to send him the Xmas card that
8he says only I, Charly, ?Gee & Aunt Kitty send him!
9
10I am finding the London air a great improvement on Bude.
11
12I’d not I’m quite of the way of troubling Alice or the child as I live
13entirely in my little room on the top floor, have my “box” here & see
14my friends here, & she’s glad of the money. I never see her unless she
15comes up to see me ^in my room^. In her worried condition its much
16better for her not to be worried with visitors.
17
18Give my love to Plum Lewis when you write to him, & tell him I hope to
19meet him in London some day. I hope you & Fan have got out for a week
20end. The weather is so fine today
21
22Ol
23Sunday morning
24