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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.108 |
Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Letter |
Letter Date | 11 February 1897 |
Address From | 19 Russell Road, Kensington, London |
Address To | |
Who To | Mary Sauer nee Cloete |
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19 Russell Rd
2 Kensington
3 Feb 11 / 97
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5 Dear Mary
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7 It was such a disappointment to me that you were gone when I came; we
8must have passed you on the sea.
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10 Cron sent Mr Sauer this morning the copy of a letter he sent to the
11Times in answer to that wonderfully low letter ?Wegman wrote about Mr
12Sauer. Get him to show it you.
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14 There has also been a disgraceful letter about Innes in the Globe. I
15am sorry for unreadable not here when it was written. I do hope the
16leading men at the Cape though they may not be able to work in one
17Ministry, will yet combine to support one another at the present time.
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19 I am sending you a copy of my little book "Peter Halket." Tell me what
20you think of it.
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22 Good bye my darling. I will write you a long letter from Rome. I hope
23we shall leave next week; but there is so much to do here. Good bye my
24darling.
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26 Your Olive
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28 Address - 19 Russell Rd
29 Kensington
30 London
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32 My letters will be sent on from here.
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2 Kensington
3 Feb 11 / 97
4
5 Dear Mary
6
7 It was such a disappointment to me that you were gone when I came; we
8must have passed you on the sea.
9
10 Cron sent Mr Sauer this morning the copy of a letter he sent to the
11Times in answer to that wonderfully low letter ?Wegman wrote about Mr
12Sauer. Get him to show it you.
13
14 There has also been a disgraceful letter about Innes in the Globe. I
15am sorry for unreadable not here when it was written. I do hope the
16leading men at the Cape though they may not be able to work in one
17Ministry, will yet combine to support one another at the present time.
18
19 I am sending you a copy of my little book "Peter Halket." Tell me what
20you think of it.
21
22 Good bye my darling. I will write you a long letter from Rome. I hope
23we shall leave next week; but there is so much to do here. Good bye my
24darling.
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26 Your Olive
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28 Address - 19 Russell Rd
29 Kensington
30 London
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32 My letters will be sent on from here.
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Notation
Cronwright-Schreiner's letter to The Times cannot be traced and seems not to have been published.
Cronwright-Schreiner's letter to The Times cannot be traced and seems not to have been published.