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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/22
ArchiveUniversity of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date1 July 1904
Address FromHanover, Northern Cape
Address To
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 letter, which is part of its Manuscripts and Archives Collections. The name of the addressee of this letter is indicated by salutation and content.
1 Hanover
2 July 1st 1904
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4 My own darling Friend
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6 How I hope Caledon will do you good & that Miss Greene will find the
7baths good. I have not written because for two weeks I have been very
8very unfit. I can’t believe I am the same person who was so strong &
9well in Cape Town. I had a letter from Mrs Lewis this morning. She
10says she will not be able to go to Kat River for fathers body at
11present. But I had already taken my ticket to Grahamstown. This
12afternoon Cron & I made a nice plan that if you & Miss Greene could
13come here about the end of July, say about the 24th of July then he &
14I would go on with you & Miss Greene to the Kowie & we could spend a
15week or ten days there together. It would be so lovely if you could
16come; do think over it. You don’t how happy one is at the Kowie.
17Cron & I were ^are^ just like two little children there. He is always so
18sweet you will love him so much there.
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20 You might come here for a couple of days rest before we go on to the
21Kowie. I long so much to see you both. Miss Greene I know is so
22anxiously awaiting letters I am always thinking of her.
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24 Olive
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