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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.11 |
| Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Friday 26 November 1920 |
| Address From | Cape Town, Western Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Jessie Rose Innes nee Dods Pringle |
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| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| Legend |
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. A typed transcript only of this letter is available; the original cannot be traced. The date has been written on the letter in an unknown hand. 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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Friday
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3Dear Jessie
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5 Just a word to tell you how I enjoyed my stay with you, & how much
6your kindness touched me. As one gets to the end of the journey one
7feels that nothing but love & fellowship matters. If I had known I
8would be so bad I would not have gone to you, but I thought I should
9be so well in your beautiful big house.
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11 It wasn't the house that made me bad because I'm just the same here I
12have to sit up all night.
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14 I did enjoy reading those Fortnightlys which Ive not seen since I came
15to Africa & so very very much meeting Mrs. Bowlas.
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17 Goodbye
18 Olive
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3Dear Jessie
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5 Just a word to tell you how I enjoyed my stay with you, & how much
6your kindness touched me. As one gets to the end of the journey one
7feels that nothing but love & fellowship matters. If I had known I
8would be so bad I would not have gone to you, but I thought I should
9be so well in your beautiful big house.
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11 It wasn't the house that made me bad because I'm just the same here I
12have to sit up all night.
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14 I did enjoy reading those Fortnightlys which Ive not seen since I came
15to Africa & so very very much meeting Mrs. Bowlas.
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17 Goodbye
18 Olive
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