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| Letter Reference | HRC/CAT/OS/5b-xvii |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Postcard |
| Letter Date | 25 January 1916 |
| Address From | na |
| Address To | Rose Cottage, Carbis Water, Cornwall |
| Who To | Havelock Ellis |
| Other Versions | Draznin 1992: 500-1 |
| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| Legend |
The Project is grateful to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner postcard, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. The date has been derived from the postmark on this postcard and the address and addressee it was sent to are on its front.
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1Thanks for the address of the book. Hodgson was very glad to get it. I
2have been very unfit; the weather here hot & quite abnormal. London
3seems getting darker & darker. “The city of Dreadful night”. Does
4Edith take Iodid of potassium, it helps me so. I hope you are both
5improving. Olive
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2have been very unfit; the weather here hot & quite abnormal. London
3seems getting darker & darker. “The city of Dreadful night”. Does
4Edith take Iodid of potassium, it helps me so. I hope you are both
5improving. Olive
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Notation
Draznin's (1992) version of this postcard is in some respects different from our transcription.
Draznin's (1992) version of this postcard is in some respects different from our transcription.