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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/66 |
Archive | National English Literary Museum, Grahamstown |
Epistolary Type | Postcard |
Letter Date | 11 September 1920 |
Address From | Cape Town, Western Cape |
Address To | Portlock, Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape |
Who To | Minnie or Mimmie Murray nee Parkes |
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Legend |
The Project is grateful to the National English Literary Museum (NELM) for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner postcard, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. The date of this postcard is provided by the postmark and the address it was sent to and the recipient are on its front. Schreiner stayed with her niece Ursula Scott, her sister-in-law Fan Schreiner, and her friend Lucy Molteno, in Cape Town after her arrival from Britain on 30 August 1920, moving to a boarding-house in Wynberg in late October, where she was resident until her death on 11 December 1920.
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Dear Friend
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3 Are Kathline & Bob now in Cape Town? Could you give me their addresses
4Perhaps they might some time be able to come & see me. I am for the
5present staying with my niece Mrs Ralph Scott, & any letter sent to me
6here will be sent on. When is Andre to be married? When are you coming
7to Cape Town? I do hope soon.
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9 Much much love to you from
10 Olive
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3 Are Kathline & Bob now in Cape Town? Could you give me their addresses
4Perhaps they might some time be able to come & see me. I am for the
5present staying with my niece Mrs Ralph Scott, & any letter sent to me
6here will be sent on. When is Andre to be married? When are you coming
7to Cape Town? I do hope soon.
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9 Much much love to you from
10 Olive
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