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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/9
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter DateSaturday 1900
Address Fromna
Address To
Who ToUnknown
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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. Its addressee cannot be established.
1Saturday
2
3Thank you so much for your letter. I am getting worse & shall move to
4Beaufort West or Victoria early next week if I can hear of a place,
5but still write here & it will be sent on.
6
7Many of the things told me about Spreckley are worked into the little
8captain who shoots Peter Halket: & now he is gone too. Life is very
9short, & there are many things harder than death But I would like to
10copy our & revise my big novel
11
12Olive
13
14Sauer seems making a splendid stand.
15
Notation
The 'big novel' Schreiner refers to is From Man to Man.