"Wonderful Dot Schreiner, tall thin woman who caused me no end of trouble" Read the full letter
| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/40 |
| Archive | University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Wednesday 17 August 1904 |
| Address From | Bedford, Eastern Cape |
| Address To | Girls Collegiate School, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape |
| Who To | Alice Greene |
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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. The date has been written on this letter in an unknown hand. The name of the addressee and the address the letter was sent to are provided by an attached envelope, from which the stamp and postmark have been removed. The insertion is written on the envelope.
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Bedford
2 Wednesday ?morning
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4 Darling Friend,
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6 Is there no plan possible for our meeting could you not go back to
7Hanover with me joining me at Cook House. I shall be going to Cape
8Town about the end of the month & shall see you there, I hope if not
9before
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11 We arrived here today from Cookhouse. We leave probably tomorrow in an
12ox-waggon. When she we shall be returning in not now quite certain. I
13suppose in five or six or eight days. Address wither wires or letters
14to Post Office, Balfour, Stockenstroom I will write from Balfour. It
15was a great disappointment to miss Miss Molteno at Cradock I had hope
16she & I might make a plan to go to go to the Kowie & you might meet us
17there
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19 Good bye dear Olive
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21 Olive
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23^Thursday ^
24 We are starting in ox wagon for Balfour this afternoon.
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2 Wednesday ?morning
3
4 Darling Friend,
5
6 Is there no plan possible for our meeting could you not go back to
7Hanover with me joining me at Cook House. I shall be going to Cape
8Town about the end of the month & shall see you there, I hope if not
9before
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11 We arrived here today from Cookhouse. We leave probably tomorrow in an
12ox-waggon. When she we shall be returning in not now quite certain. I
13suppose in five or six or eight days. Address wither wires or letters
14to Post Office, Balfour, Stockenstroom I will write from Balfour. It
15was a great disappointment to miss Miss Molteno at Cradock I had hope
16she & I might make a plan to go to go to the Kowie & you might meet us
17there
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19 Good bye dear Olive
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21 Olive
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23^Thursday ^
24 We are starting in ox wagon for Balfour this afternoon.
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