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Letter Reference | Findlay Family A1199/1153 |
Archive | William Cullen Library, Historical Papers, University of the Witwatersrand |
Epistolary Type | Letter |
Letter Date | 1 January 1873 |
Address From | New Rush, later Kimberley, Northern Cape |
Address To | |
Who To | Catherine ('Katie') Findlay nee Schreiner |
Other Versions | Rive 1987: 7-8 |
Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
Legend |
The Project is grateful to the William Cullen Library, University of Johannesburg, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Historical Papers.
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1
New Rush
2 Jan 1st 1873
3
4 My dearest Katie!
5
6 I have just got your kind letter for which many thanks. I've only time
7to day for a line, to wish you all a happy new year, I wish I could
8spend part of the day with you at Fraserburg. here we are having a
9frightfully hot day & will I hope have a storm this afternoon. We are
10all pretty well, that is for the fields. We are none of us in bed,
11which is more than most people here can say, still I like the Fields
12much, & more every day.
13
14 You can have no idea unless you have seen them what they are like
15Ettie & I lost our way a night or two ago & were wandering about for
16an hour or two before we got home; in that part of the camp which we
17call the town it is easy enough to find your way about even at night,
18but in the real camp it is hard work.
19
20 We are finding very few diamonds & when they are found can get very
21little for them. I don't think diamond digging is paying work at all
22now.
23
24 I must close now dearest Katie. With much fond love to the dear little
25ones & your self.
26
27 Believe me to be ever your loving sister
28 Olive
29
30 Excuse haste the post is just going.
31
2 Jan 1st 1873
3
4 My dearest Katie!
5
6 I have just got your kind letter for which many thanks. I've only time
7to day for a line, to wish you all a happy new year, I wish I could
8spend part of the day with you at Fraserburg. here we are having a
9frightfully hot day & will I hope have a storm this afternoon. We are
10all pretty well, that is for the fields. We are none of us in bed,
11which is more than most people here can say, still I like the Fields
12much, & more every day.
13
14 You can have no idea unless you have seen them what they are like
15Ettie & I lost our way a night or two ago & were wandering about for
16an hour or two before we got home; in that part of the camp which we
17call the town it is easy enough to find your way about even at night,
18but in the real camp it is hard work.
19
20 We are finding very few diamonds & when they are found can get very
21little for them. I don't think diamond digging is paying work at all
22now.
23
24 I must close now dearest Katie. With much fond love to the dear little
25ones & your self.
26
27 Believe me to be ever your loving sister
28 Olive
29
30 Excuse haste the post is just going.
31
Notation
Rive's (1987) version of this letter is in a number of respects incorrect.
Rive's (1987) version of this letter is in a number of respects incorrect.