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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/16 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 3 June 1902 |
| Address From | Hanover, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Rebecca Schreiner nee Lyndall |
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| 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.
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Hanover
2 May June 3rd 1902
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4 My darling Mothie
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6 I am just longing for a line to say how you are.
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8 We are having unspeakably cold weather here; but I am keeping all
9right. The typhoid patients though some of them in a dangerous
10condition are are all alive still. One is the mother of a family, &
11another patient is a man, with five young children & a sixth coming.
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13 Have you any news of Elberty?
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15 Good bye my own Mother this is just a word to show you are in my
16thoughts this morning.
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18 Your,
19 Olive
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2 May June 3rd 1902
3
4 My darling Mothie
5
6 I am just longing for a line to say how you are.
7
8 We are having unspeakably cold weather here; but I am keeping all
9right. The typhoid patients though some of them in a dangerous
10condition are are all alive still. One is the mother of a family, &
11another patient is a man, with five young children & a sixth coming.
12
13 Have you any news of Elberty?
14
15 Good bye my own Mother this is just a word to show you are in my
16thoughts this morning.
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18 Your,
19 Olive
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