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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold1/1890/10
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter DateMonday November 1890
Address FromMatjesfontein, Western Cape
Address To
Who ToFrances (‘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 month and year have been written on this letter in an unknown hand.
1 Matjesfontein
2 Monday
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4 Dearest Fan
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6 I got here yesterday morning, but I was so sleepy that I simply laid
7down & slept till the evening. Then I went over to dinner at Mr Logans.
8 The Sivewrights were there, & Mr Saur ^Sauer^. He was very very kind to
9me, & I liked him very much more that I ever did before. He says Mrs
10Sauer
wants him to sake me to come & visit them.
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12 I am still so sleepy this morning that I can hardly write.
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14 Thank you so very very much, for your beautiful kindness to me. I
15don’t know when in my life I have passed such an absolutely happy
16week.
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18 Love to our little ones.
19 Olive
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21 Tell Harry Gie the dance is to be in about four ^three^ weeks.
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