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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.4
ArchiveNational Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date16 November 1913
Address FromDe Aar, Northern Cape
Address To
Who ToAnna Purcell nee Cambier Faure
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The Project is grateful to the National Library of South Africa (NLSA), Cape Town, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Special Collections.
1 De Aar
2 Nov 16th 1913
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4 My darling Anna
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6 I shall arrive in Cape Town on the evening of Friday the 21st if I am
7able to get my packing done. I am going through & burning old letters
8& papers, & its sad work; it's like burning your own heart.
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10 Dear you'll never know how much your love & friendship has been it to
11me. You came into my life just in the loneliest point, when I most
12needed it
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14 Good bye, dear.
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16 I'm so thankful Miss Hobhouse is better. No place would have suited
17her like Bergvleit. Cron tells me there was an account in the papers
18of a meeting at Bergvleit. I didn't see it. I didn't see it. I've not
19read the papers lately I seem to have lost my hold on things.
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21 Olive
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