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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold3/1917/27
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypePostcard
Letter Date2 December 1917
Address From9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London
Address ToTrevone, Padstow, Cornwall
Who ToBetty Molteno
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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 postcard, which is part of its Manuscripts and Archives Collections. The date of this postcard is provided by the postmark, and the name of the addressee and the address it was sent to are on its front. Schreiner was resident at Porchester Place from early April 1917 until August 1920, when she left Britain for South Africa.
1Dear One,
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3I went yesterday with a deputation to the House of Parliament about
4the Indian woman’s franchise A kind woman helped me up the stairs.
5It was rather interesting. How is Helen (I feel so anxious lest her
6heart should be troubling her.
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8Love to you dear one A letter tomorrow
9Olive
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