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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold3/ToBe/6 |
Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Letter |
Letter Date | Tuesday 24 November 1908 |
Address From | De Aar, Northern Cape |
Address To | |
Who To | Frances (‘Fan’) Schreiner nee Reitz |
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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 letter, which is part of its Manuscripts and Archives Collections. The year has been written on this letter in an unknown hand.
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De Aar
2 Tuesday 24th ^Nov^
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4 Dear old Sister
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6 Please send me back Miss Colenso’s letter, as I haven’t answered
7it. Have you good news of Will & Dot?
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9 Did I tell you that my dear friend Lady Constance Lytton has become a
10great suffragette? & the wonderful thing is that she has got old Lady
11Lytton quite to sympathize with her, who is very conservative even
12more so than Lady Loch!
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14 Its so hot here today, over 100 one feels quite stupefied.
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16 Good When do you go to Kalk Bay?
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18 Good bye, dear old sister. I hope all goes well with you.
19 Olive
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21 I saw in the papers your brother Frank had been ill, have you good
22news of him?
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2 Tuesday 24th ^Nov^
3
4 Dear old Sister
5
6 Please send me back Miss Colenso’s letter, as I haven’t answered
7it. Have you good news of Will & Dot?
8
9 Did I tell you that my dear friend Lady Constance Lytton has become a
10great suffragette? & the wonderful thing is that she has got old Lady
11Lytton quite to sympathize with her, who is very conservative even
12more so than Lady Loch!
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14 Its so hot here today, over 100 one feels quite stupefied.
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16 Good When do you go to Kalk Bay?
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18 Good bye, dear old sister. I hope all goes well with you.
19 Olive
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21 I saw in the papers your brother Frank had been ill, have you good
22news of him?
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