"Neta crushed under the wheels, the best friend I ever had" Read the full letter
| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/45 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Thursday 1912 |
| Address From | De Aar, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | William Philip ('Will') Schreiner |
| Other Versions | |
| 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.
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De Aar
2 Thursday
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4 Dear old man,
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6 I got home at 12 to day. I found a nice letter from Ursula awaiting me
7here. She writes so wisely about the suffragettes. She strongly
8sympathizes with them, but feels so strongly she must do nothing to
9interfere with her studies & that her first duty is to you.
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11 Thank you for all your goodness to me, dear old man. As I grow older I
12feel that the only real important thing in human life is love &
13fellowship with those humans who by nature belong to us, & I seem to
14cling more & more to those few who really belong to us & I seem to
15belong more & more to those few who really belong to me.
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17 I think as boy Oliver is not going in for that other exam = in
18November, but takes it next year he really might come out. He whowever
19has said nothing to me about coming out. Its fine about him last exam:
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21 I’m just writing a note to the little mother.
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23 Good bye, dear. The heat is very great here almost as great as in
24summer but it will be over in another 10 days. Its so ?nice to the old
25man, who is my children
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27^& all of them! The cat Boy-Boy has grown into an immense beautiful
28creature. Ollie & Puppy were so glad to see me & Sancho Panza knows me ^
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30 Your little sister
31 Ol
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33 ^The first thing Cron noticed was my pretty Broach^
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2 Thursday
3
4 Dear old man,
5
6 I got home at 12 to day. I found a nice letter from Ursula awaiting me
7here. She writes so wisely about the suffragettes. She strongly
8sympathizes with them, but feels so strongly she must do nothing to
9interfere with her studies & that her first duty is to you.
10
11 Thank you for all your goodness to me, dear old man. As I grow older I
12feel that the only real important thing in human life is love &
13fellowship with those humans who by nature belong to us, & I seem to
14cling more & more to those few who really belong to us & I seem to
15belong more & more to those few who really belong to me.
16
17 I think as boy Oliver is not going in for that other exam = in
18November, but takes it next year he really might come out. He whowever
19has said nothing to me about coming out. Its fine about him last exam:
20
21 I’m just writing a note to the little mother.
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23 Good bye, dear. The heat is very great here almost as great as in
24summer but it will be over in another 10 days. Its so ?nice to the old
25man, who is my children
26
27^& all of them! The cat Boy-Boy has grown into an immense beautiful
28creature. Ollie & Puppy were so glad to see me & Sancho Panza knows me ^
29
30 Your little sister
31 Ol
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33 ^The first thing Cron noticed was my pretty Broach^
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