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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/4
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypePostcard
Letter Date4 June 1917
Address From9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London
Address ToClarensville, Patterson Road, Hampstead, London
Who ToGeorgiana Solomon nee Thompson
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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 postcard, which is part of its Manuscripts and Archives Collections. The date of this postcard is provided by the postmark, and the name of the addressee and the address it was sent to are on its front. Schreiner was resident at Porchester Place from early April 1917 until August 1920, when she left Britain for South Africa.
1 Dear Mrs Solomon,
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3 I shall be so glad to see Daisy. Perhaps Miss Molteno & I will be able
4to come in & see you some evening. We often ride up to Golders Green
5after supper for the air.
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7 Please tell the friend who wrote that I never speak in public. I hope
8their society will have good success. I saw young Ramsbottom at my
9brother’s today. He’s a nice looking boy.
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11 Much love to you both
12 Olive Schreiner
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