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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/20
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date16 August 1908
Address FromRossyvera, Norfolk Road, Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape
Address To
Who ToJulia Solly nee Muspratt
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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 date has been written on this letter in an unknown hand.
1 Rossyvera
2 Norfolk Rd
3 Sea Point
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5 Dear Mrs Solly
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7 We are going to have another meeting on the 27th for Mrs Brown to read
8her little paper again. We shall try not to have any women there who
9were at the last reading at Mrs WP Schreiner’s.
10
11 I had a long talk this afternoon with Mrs A de Villiers the wife of
12the Advocate. She is the first woman in South Africa who ever did
13great things at an exam (she took the Porter Scholarship of £300 a
14year for three years & went to Cambridge to study). She is an English
15woman, was a Miss Drummond, & all her relations were on the English
16side in the war; but she was a pro-Boer. Her husband is in the son a
17Dutch Church Minister, & his parents were known & respected respe
18every-where among the Dutch. If she would become a vice-president it
19would be splendid. She’s liked by every one Dutch & English who know
20her. She says she is too young, only just 30, & not well enough know,
21but she is really much the most remarkable woman we have in our
22society.
23
24 Write me what you think of this. We have not yet quite fixed up about
25the meeting at Mrs Griffiths.
26
27 Yours ever
28 Olive Schreiner
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Notation
Mary Brown's 'little paper' cannot be traced.