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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/7
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypePostcard
Letter Date23 January 1896
Address FromMiddelburg, Eastern Cape
Address ToGirls Collegiate School, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
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 postcard, which is part of its Manuscripts and Archives Collections. The address this postcard was sent to and the name of the addressee are on its front.
1 I’ll have to leave this on the 9th to go to Webbers farm to see
2about a young lad the son of a friend of mine who is staying there:
3then I go to Mrs Cawoods for a few days & then Home to Kimberley. Do
4try to come before we leave. Mrs Cawood is coming today to spend some
5days with us here. I’m so glad your visit was such a delight to my
6little mother.
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8 Yours ever
9 Olive
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