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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold1/1892/1
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter DateFebruary 1892
Address FromMatjesfontein, Western Cape
Address To
Who ToBetty Molteno
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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 year has been written on this letter in an unknown hand. Theo Schreiner was in Matjesfontein and ill with typhoid in February 1892
1 Matjesfontein
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3 Darling Friend
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5 Logan is willing to wait till July if you can come then & see the
6place. You ought to come & see it before you make any definite plans.
7I am still here & she be here for a couple of months more. Address to
8Matjesfontein. There are some other lovely building that would do for
9class rooms that you could get. Write & tell me know your plans.
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11 My brother Theo Schreiner is ill here with typhoid he caught at
12Kimberly, & have been sitting up three nights running ^to nurse him^ so
13I feel stupid & must go to bed.
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15 My love to Alice.
16 Olive
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