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| Letter Reference | HRC/OliveSchreinerLetters/OS-JohnHodgson/56 |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 26 December 1915 |
| Address From | 30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, Kensington, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | John Hodgson |
| Other Versions | |
| 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 letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. The addressee is implicit.
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130 St Mary Abbotts Terrace
2Kensington
3Dec 26th 1915
4
5Best Wishes for the New Year.
6
7Mr Ellis will send me the name of the book of Durham folk-Tales as
8soon soon as he can find out the name. I expect he got them in the
9British Museum.
10
11Have you read a most lovely little book called “Letters from a Field
12Hospital” by Mrs Percy Dearmer who died lately, nursing in Serbia,
13from typhoid. Get it. It costs only 2/6. I’ve got many copies for
14Xmas presents but I’ve given them all away.
15
16Yours in haste,
17Olive Schreiner
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2Kensington
3Dec 26th 1915
4
5Best Wishes for the New Year.
6
7Mr Ellis will send me the name of the book of Durham folk-Tales as
8soon soon as he can find out the name. I expect he got them in the
9British Museum.
10
11Have you read a most lovely little book called “Letters from a Field
12Hospital” by Mrs Percy Dearmer who died lately, nursing in Serbia,
13from typhoid. Get it. It costs only 2/6. I’ve got many copies for
14Xmas presents but I’ve given them all away.
15
16Yours in haste,
17Olive Schreiner
18
Notation
The Durham folk tales referred to cannot be traced. The book referred to is: Mabel Dearmer (1916) Letters from a Field Hospital London: Macmillann.
The Durham folk tales referred to cannot be traced. The book referred to is: Mabel Dearmer (1916) Letters from a Field Hospital London: Macmillann.