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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold4/1918/26 |
Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Letter |
Letter Date | Wednesday 18 September 1918 |
Address From | 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, 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 of this letter has been written on in an unknown hand. Schreiner was resident at Porchester Place from early April 1917 until August 1920, when she left Britain for South Africa.
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1Wednesday
2
3My dear old Brother
4
5Have you any news of Oliver? I have not heard from him since he left,
6& have had no letters from Cron for three weeks, which is strange as
7he never misses writing every week, & there seem many steamers coming.
8
9I hope you are looking better & feeling it. I’m so glad to hear you
10went out of town for the week end.
11
12I was pretty done last week so I went to the Hodgsons’; it was like
13life from the dead lying there for two days on a chair in the corner &
14breathing the fresh clean air I thought I’d got to the end of every
15thing, but am much better.
16
17Dear Mrs Percy Molteno has promised to come & fetch me in her motor on
18Friday & take me to Parklands & bring me back on Monday morning by
19motor, so I’ll have no walking.
20
21Good bye. You don’t know how much you are to me. Take care of
22yourself.
23Ol
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2
3My dear old Brother
4
5Have you any news of Oliver? I have not heard from him since he left,
6& have had no letters from Cron for three weeks, which is strange as
7he never misses writing every week, & there seem many steamers coming.
8
9I hope you are looking better & feeling it. I’m so glad to hear you
10went out of town for the week end.
11
12I was pretty done last week so I went to the Hodgsons’; it was like
13life from the dead lying there for two days on a chair in the corner &
14breathing the fresh clean air I thought I’d got to the end of every
15thing, but am much better.
16
17Dear Mrs Percy Molteno has promised to come & fetch me in her motor on
18Friday & take me to Parklands & bring me back on Monday morning by
19motor, so I’ll have no walking.
20
21Good bye. You don’t know how much you are to me. Take care of
22yourself.
23Ol
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