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| Letter Reference | Smuts A1/188/75 |
| Archive | National Archives Repository, Pretoria |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 20 October 1905 |
| Address From | Hanover, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Isie Smuts nee Krige |
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| 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.
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Hanover
2 Oct 20 / 05
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4 Dear Isie
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6 I hope the little ones are quite well again. It seems so long since I
7had any news of you all Two dear friends of mine, Mr. & Mrs. Pethwick
8Lawrence have been spending a week with us. Later they are going on to
9the Transvaal, but I am so afraid you & your husband will be down at
10Gordons Bay when they are N in Pretoria. When do you start. They are
11both very strong pro Boers. A friend of mine told me she nearly cried
12herself to death when she heard of Cronje’s defeat! He was the
13Editor ^& prospector^ of the Echo in London & they did a great deal for
14our cause.
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16 I think you will love them both if you meet them, they are so simple &
17sincere. They are coming back here next week & I am going to take them
18about a little in the Cradock district visiting some of the farms & my
19old friends there. We shall go to Lilly Kloof where your husband had a
20fight, I believe one of his men was shot there. You can’t think what
21a joy it has been to me to have them here.
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23 Kisses for the little ones, your old friend
24 Olive Schreiner
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2 Oct 20 / 05
3
4 Dear Isie
5
6 I hope the little ones are quite well again. It seems so long since I
7had any news of you all Two dear friends of mine, Mr. & Mrs. Pethwick
8Lawrence have been spending a week with us. Later they are going on to
9the Transvaal, but I am so afraid you & your husband will be down at
10Gordons Bay when they are N in Pretoria. When do you start. They are
11both very strong pro Boers. A friend of mine told me she nearly cried
12herself to death when she heard of Cronje’s defeat! He was the
13Editor ^& prospector^ of the Echo in London & they did a great deal for
14our cause.
15
16 I think you will love them both if you meet them, they are so simple &
17sincere. They are coming back here next week & I am going to take them
18about a little in the Cradock district visiting some of the farms & my
19old friends there. We shall go to Lilly Kloof where your husband had a
20fight, I believe one of his men was shot there. You can’t think what
21a joy it has been to me to have them here.
22
23 Kisses for the little ones, your old friend
24 Olive Schreiner
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