1 The Homestead
2 March 16 / 98
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4 My dear Friend
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6 I’m so sorry you are not coming now. I always need you. Cron only
7told me the day before he left that you had written to him asking
8whether I was well enough to see you. I always feel you are the one
9person I should like to have near me if I were very ill or dying. I
10met ^Miss ?Flower^ & Mrs Stratton in the street the other day with both
11looking very bright.
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13 Cron has gone to Cradock for ten days to the show. He will be back
14early next week. Its not at all likely, but it’s just possible I
15might take advantage of the excursion tickets at the end of this month
16& run down to Port Elizabeth for three days. Could you get me an airy
17room near you for the two or three days I should be there. I don’t
18think it will come to anything but sometimes I feel I shall never be
19able to do anything again till I get a little change of air & scene.
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21 Do you know there is a liberal anti-Capitalist paper to be started in
22Cape Town, a weekly? Cartwright, who was editor to the Kimberly paper
23till Mr Rhodes bought it a few weeks ago, is going to start it. Do
24subscribe to it. ^It is only 1d a number.^ If you took two or three
25copies a week you might give them away. Very good folk are going to
26write for it. There is not one paper now not in Rhodes hands. Do you
27know that he has bought the Cape Register? I hope this paper will be
28very good. Cron is going to write for it. I wish I could. What is that
29Hotel on the mountains like, th where you & Miss Green went? I want
30How high is it above the sea? I’d like to get on the top of the
31highest mountain in the world.
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