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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/3
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date After Start: Monday March 1919 ; Before End: Monday April 1919
Address From9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London
Address To
Who ToWilliam Philip ('Will') Schreiner
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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 range has been written on this letter in an unknown hand; the name of its addressee is provided by content.
19 Porchester Place
2Edgware Rd
3W.
4Monday
5
6Dear, I was so sorry to see you so unfit. You must get down to the sea
7side for a little golf for the week-end. Hythe or Folkstone would do
8you good, splendid golf. The Grand at Folkstone where Adela & her
9husband always stay, is the nicest sea side hotel I’ve ever seen in
10England, high on the edge of the cliff, with a splendid out look &
11catching all the sun there is.
12
13I send you a cutting from the New National. So that’s what the new
14National is after?
15
16Do drink Vichy water dear. Don’t wait till the kidneys go. If I had
17taken it years ago the stone might never have formed.
18
19Love to you my old brother
20Olive
21
Notation
The cutting Schreiner mentions is attached and concerns a call from the Women's International League, on behalf of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace, for contributions to an Emergency Fund in order to provide 'one million india-rubber teats for starving German babies'.