"Don't come, Cron's dear old mother" Read the full letter
| Letter Reference | Smuts A1/186/88 |
| Archive | National Archives Repository, Pretoria |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | September 1899 |
| Address From | Karree Kloof, Krankuil, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Isie Smuts nee Krige |
| Other Versions | Rive 1987: 379 |
| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| Legend |
The Project is grateful to the National Archives Repository, Pretoria, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Special Collections. The month and year have been written on this letter in an unknown hand. Schreiner stayed on the Karee Kloof farm near Krankuil from late August to mid November 1899.
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My dear friend
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3 I am sending back the book it was in the desk in my husbands study, he
4thought I had sent it, & I thought he had. I send you with it a little
5book which I love very much called "Englands Ideal by my dear friend
6Edward Carpenter. I think you will like it; let me know what you think
7of it when you have read it. You must try for baby’s sake not to
8feel the hard times through which we are passing, as your good health
9means his.
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11 What is your little sisters name. I want to write it in a book I want
12to send her.
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14 Yours ever
15 Olive Schreiner
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17 Tell your husband I will show him the answers I get from John Morley
18&c today, when they come. They may be interesting: but it may be all
19over with us one way or another before they come.
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2
3 I am sending back the book it was in the desk in my husbands study, he
4thought I had sent it, & I thought he had. I send you with it a little
5book which I love very much called "Englands Ideal by my dear friend
6Edward Carpenter. I think you will like it; let me know what you think
7of it when you have read it. You must try for baby’s sake not to
8feel the hard times through which we are passing, as your good health
9means his.
10
11 What is your little sisters name. I want to write it in a book I want
12to send her.
13
14 Yours ever
15 Olive Schreiner
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17 Tell your husband I will show him the answers I get from John Morley
18&c today, when they come. They may be interesting: but it may be all
19over with us one way or another before they come.
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Notation
The book Schreiner sent back to Isie Smuts has not been established; Carpenter's book is: Edward Carpenter (1887) England’s Ideal, and other papers on social subjects London: Swann Sonnenschein & Co. Rive's (1987) version omits part of this letter and is also in a number of respects incorrect.
The book Schreiner sent back to Isie Smuts has not been established; Carpenter's book is: Edward Carpenter (1887) England’s Ideal, and other papers on social subjects London: Swann Sonnenschein & Co. Rive's (1987) version omits part of this letter and is also in a number of respects incorrect.