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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/10 |
Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Letter |
Letter Date | 1904 |
Address From | Karatara, Kenilworth, Cape Town, Western Cape |
Address To | |
Who To | Caroline Murray nee Molteno |
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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 year has been written on this letter in an unknown hand. The letter is on printed headed notepaper.
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Karatara
2 Kenilworth
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4 Dear Mrs Murray,
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6 If I’d thought you would be here I’d have stayed in on Saturday.
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8 Thank you so much for asking me for Wednesday. I thought till today I
9would be able to come. But Wednesday is my mother-in-laws birthday, &
10there is to be a great gathering of the whole family for lunch & tea
11so I can’t be away. I’m so sorry not to come, but will come & see
12you soon.
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14 Yours ?hurriedly
15 Olive Schreiner
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2 Kenilworth
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4 Dear Mrs Murray,
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6 If I’d thought you would be here I’d have stayed in on Saturday.
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8 Thank you so much for asking me for Wednesday. I thought till today I
9would be able to come. But Wednesday is my mother-in-laws birthday, &
10there is to be a great gathering of the whole family for lunch & tea
11so I can’t be away. I’m so sorry not to come, but will come & see
12you soon.
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14 Yours ?hurriedly
15 Olive Schreiner
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