1 Box 2 Johannesburg
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3 Dear Friend,
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5 Yes isn’t the news comforting. It seems to ease even physical pain.
6I know my dear Laddie will do his best; if we can only move a little
7in the right direction it is something. I wish his heart were stronger.
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9 I enclose a cutting from an English paper, which please return.
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11 Oh dear one I’d like to be a little child & do nothing but I must
12work & yet I can’t!! That’s the curious circle. I am trying to
13copy out & revise one article that is practically quite done, but must
14be gone over, & when I have worked a few seconds I get quite faint &
15don’t know what I am doing! I must just revise a couple more
16articles & then I can bring the book of Stray Thoughts out, & get 750
17£750 for it, & then I’ll rest for two years & do nothing & be so
18happy. & yet the worst is I can’t understand my own writing now,
19it’s so awfully clever!! How wide awake that person must have been
20who wrote it! It quite unreadable
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22 Perhaps if he can succeed in getting some ^the^ work he wants here, my
23darling Boy will come up from Kimberley next week, & we shall stay
24here for good.
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26 I have very good news about the Governor. A young barrister wrote Cron
27that, that the Governor was disgusted with Rhodes & Sprigg, & felt
28they had taken him in & misled him. I hope they will tax diamonds, & I
29do hope your brother will yet get in for Tembu Land.
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31 Love to my dear Miss Green. If we live up here you must come up some
32day. The town is terrible but there is a little house up on the cliff
33almost quite out of the town, & if we can get to live there it will be
34quite lovely. Miss Green & Cron could go splendid trips among the
35lovely plantations on their bikes.
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37 Good bye dear,
38 Olive
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42 Hospital Hill
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44 as I may be moving to another boarding house. I’m reading Grimm’s
45Fairy Tales: they are so nice, & don’t excite one.
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