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| Letter Reference | Smuts A1/191/56 |
| Archive | National Archives Repository, Pretoria |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Monday December 1908 |
| Address From | De Aar, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Isie Smuts nee Krige |
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| 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.
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de Aar
2 Monday
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4 Dear Isie
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6 Thank you so much for your letter. I can’t come just now, but may
7later. I am leaving for Matjesfontein on Saturday. My husband says he
8can’t spare time to go to Cape Town. I wish he could the heat is so
9terrible here. I never knew anything quite like the last three days.
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11 Thank you so much
12 Olive
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2 Monday
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4 Dear Isie
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6 Thank you so much for your letter. I can’t come just now, but may
7later. I am leaving for Matjesfontein on Saturday. My husband says he
8can’t spare time to go to Cape Town. I wish he could the heat is so
9terrible here. I never knew anything quite like the last three days.
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11 Thank you so much
12 Olive
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