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Letter Reference | HRC/OliveSchreinerLetters/OS-JohnHodgson/18 |
Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
Epistolary Type | Letter |
Letter Date | After Start: Monday 1914 ; Before End: 1915 |
Address From | 30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, Kensington, London |
Address To | |
Who To | John Hodgson |
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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 at St Mary Abbotts Terrace for a number of periods in early and late 1914 and then in 1915.
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130 St Mary Abbotts Terrace
2Kensington
3Monday Early
4
5Dear Mr Hodgson
6
7Thank you I think I shall be able to go on Tuesday as you propose &
8shall be glad. South Africa lies heavy on my heart.
9
10Please come in good time because I can’t go by underground & the
11omnibus takes a little longer.
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13I agree with your view of matters very much.
14
15Yours ever
16Olive Schreiner
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18I should much like to meet the lady you mention. She made I think a
19speech at our peace meeting.
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2Kensington
3Monday Early
4
5Dear Mr Hodgson
6
7Thank you I think I shall be able to go on Tuesday as you propose &
8shall be glad. South Africa lies heavy on my heart.
9
10Please come in good time because I can’t go by underground & the
11omnibus takes a little longer.
12
13I agree with your view of matters very much.
14
15Yours ever
16Olive Schreiner
17
18I should much like to meet the lady you mention. She made I think a
19speech at our peace meeting.
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