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Letter ReferenceHRC/RichardGarnett/Recip/OS-RichardGarnett/5
ArchiveHarry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter DateSunday 23 June 1888
Address FromRoseneath, Harpenden, Hertfordshire
Address ToRichard Garnett, British Museum, London
Who ToRichard Garnett
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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 letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. Schreiner was resident in Harpenden from June to September 1888.
1Roseneath
2Harpenden
3Sunday
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5Dear Dr Garnett
6
7Thank you deeply for your letter. It was of assistance to me as words
8of kindly interest & sympathy only can be when they come at a moment
9when we require them.
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11I have taken a little cottage here for a month, I hope then to be able
12to leave for the Riviera or Cape.
13
14I shall give myself the pleasure of writing again to let you know my
15address.
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17^Believe me,^
18Yours sincerely,
19Olive Schreiner
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