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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold1/1889/7 |
Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Letter |
Letter Date | November 1889 |
Address From | Ceres, Western Cape |
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Who To | Frances ('Fan') Schreiner nee Reitz |
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The Project is grateful to Manuscripts and Archives, University of Cape Town, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Manuscripts and Archives Collections. The date has been written on this letter in an unknown hand. Schreiner wrote it while on a train probably going to Ceres in the Western Cape, where she was resident for most of November 1889.
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Darling Fan
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3 Thank you for all your great goodness to me, dear. You must come & see
4me in the Karroo, & I’ll give you fat "bockky" every day.
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6 Love to our little ones. I don’t like to leave them. The train
7shakes so I can’t write as beautifully as usual.
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9 Olive
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3 Thank you for all your great goodness to me, dear. You must come & see
4me in the Karroo, & I’ll give you fat "bockky" every day.
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6 Love to our little ones. I don’t like to leave them. The train
7shakes so I can’t write as beautifully as usual.
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9 Olive
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