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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold1/1892/16 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Saturday 22 October 1892 |
| Address From | Matjesfontein, Western Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Frances (‘Fan’) Schreiner nee Reitz |
| Other Versions | |
| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| Legend |
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.
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Matjesfontein
2 Saturday
3
4 Darling Fan
5
6 Expect me down on the morning of the 9th or evening of the 8 ^the^
7eighteenth of Nov. I’m sorry I can’t be there for my Dot’s birthday.
8I’ll only be in town two days but I feel I long so to see you & the
9children.
10
11 How are you my darling little sis.
12
13 Will’s note to me was not written in very high spirits, he was wishing
14to start for you & the little ones, but it may be doing him good all
15the same. Lady Loch & Lady Lytton & her daughter came up to spend two
16days with me. It was very delightful. I send you one of Lady L’s
17letters to me & one of her daughters, but don’t show them to any one,
18& return them. I love Lady Loch very much, but Lady Lytton is even
19sweeter & much easier to get to know. I’m longing so to see our baby.
20Good bye dearie.
21
22 Thy little sis Olive
23
24 ^Its been so bitterly cold & rainy down here; I’m longing so to get
25back to warmth.^
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2 Saturday
3
4 Darling Fan
5
6 Expect me down on the morning of the 9th or evening of the 8 ^the^
7eighteenth of Nov. I’m sorry I can’t be there for my Dot’s birthday.
8I’ll only be in town two days but I feel I long so to see you & the
9children.
10
11 How are you my darling little sis.
12
13 Will’s note to me was not written in very high spirits, he was wishing
14to start for you & the little ones, but it may be doing him good all
15the same. Lady Loch & Lady Lytton & her daughter came up to spend two
16days with me. It was very delightful. I send you one of Lady L’s
17letters to me & one of her daughters, but don’t show them to any one,
18& return them. I love Lady Loch very much, but Lady Lytton is even
19sweeter & much easier to get to know. I’m longing so to see our baby.
20Good bye dearie.
21
22 Thy little sis Olive
23
24 ^Its been so bitterly cold & rainy down here; I’m longing so to get
25back to warmth.^
26