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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/3 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 22 March 1920 |
| Address From | 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London |
| Address To | Trevaldwyn, Llandrindod Wells, Wales |
| Who To | May Murray Parker nee Murray |
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| 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 is derived from the postmark on an attached envelope, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner was resident at Porchester Place from early April 1917 until August 1920, when she left Britain for South Africa.
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1My darling May
2
3A friend from the Cape thinks she would like to go to Llandrindod in
4August. Don’t trouble to write a letter, but just put down on a bit
5of paper the price of different sets of rooms. She is not really ill
6at all, but the doctors say she wants rest & quiet out of London. She
7can take long walks but is rheumatic & I am sure the waters would do
8her good.
9
10Darling Betty is bearing her sorrow so wonderfully. Truly she is
11splendid I want to write a little notice of Alice Greene for a Dutch
12paper at the Cape, but don’t yet quite see my way clear.
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14Lyndall is expecting her baby in July & is going down to dar-es-Salam
15to have it, as there is a hospital there & she can have two doctors.
16But, oh May, I am so anxious about her so far from us all in that hot
17climate, but her husband seems absolutely devoted to her & she to him.
18If I could only go to her when the baby comes – but I am no good now.
19
20Good bye, dear. Love to dear Freddy & you
21Olive
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2
3A friend from the Cape thinks she would like to go to Llandrindod in
4August. Don’t trouble to write a letter, but just put down on a bit
5of paper the price of different sets of rooms. She is not really ill
6at all, but the doctors say she wants rest & quiet out of London. She
7can take long walks but is rheumatic & I am sure the waters would do
8her good.
9
10Darling Betty is bearing her sorrow so wonderfully. Truly she is
11splendid I want to write a little notice of Alice Greene for a Dutch
12paper at the Cape, but don’t yet quite see my way clear.
13
14Lyndall is expecting her baby in July & is going down to dar-es-Salam
15to have it, as there is a hospital there & she can have two doctors.
16But, oh May, I am so anxious about her so far from us all in that hot
17climate, but her husband seems absolutely devoted to her & she to him.
18If I could only go to her when the baby comes – but I am no good now.
19
20Good bye, dear. Love to dear Freddy & you
21Olive
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