1 Hanover
2C.C.
3 Aug 25 / 05
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5 My dear old Sister
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7 I expect it seems a weary long time to you since your two went away.
8If the doctors only can impress on our old boy that he must have
9exercise & fresh air every day it will have been worth it all. If his
10heart is a bit enlarged he cannot do without exercise & air. I think
11your idea of his having a quiet horse & riding in & out of town is so
12first rate.
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14 How is your dear old brother since his return from the Transvaal? Did
15he find the change up there do him real good. I wish the people had
16got up a subscription for him as they did for Steyn. He has been a
17true old patriot. It isn’t
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19^so much for the sake of the money I wish it but that I think it would
20cheer him up to feel how he was loved & remembered. People spend so
21much on monuments & talk so lovingly of people after they are dead. If
22they would only do it while they are alive it would be so much better!^
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24Ollie wrote me a note & sent me some photos from ?Felbach & Emma
25writes me that she is expecting them back in England soon.
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27Good bye dear. Much love to you all.
28Olive
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30 ^I had a letter from my friend Mrs Van Heerden today. She tells me
31General Malan & his father mother & entire family of seven grown up
32sons are going to trek to German East Africa. The Germans will get a
33good fighter as a new subject.^
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