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Cron (Samuel) Cronwright-Schreiner
Cron Cronwright (later Cronwright-Schreiner, later still Cronwright again) (1863 - 1936) was Olive Schreiner’s husband. He was born in the Bedford district of the Eastern Cape in South Africa, the second of eight children. His mother was Zipporah Featherstone, who came partly from 1820 settler stock. His father, Samuel Cron Cronwright, was the son of Peter Wright, a missionary for the London Missionary Society at the same time that Gottlob Schreiner was. The surname Cronwright, an amalgamation of Cron and Wright, was adopted by the family in 1857. Cronwright was born on his father’s sheep farm, Gideon’s Hoek, but when he was two the family moved to Grahamstown, where his father went into business as a storekeeper and trader, also becoming mayor of Grahamstown and a member of the Cape legislative assembly. Cronwright was educated at St Andrew’s College in Grahamstown, but was forced to abandon a university career because of his father’s business misfortunes, and he also seems to have become a free-thinker at about the same time.
In 1884 Cronwright became a farmer, spending ten months on an uncle’s farm in the Karoo. He was then asked to manage the Woods’ ostrich farm, Krantz Plaats, near Cradock (this farm included Buffel’s Kop where Olive Schreiner and Cronwright himself were later to be interred). According to biographers, in 1890 Cronwright read The Story of an African Farm and was deeply moved by the book. The same year he wrote Olive Schreiner what he describes as his first, rather ‘nervous and stiff’ letter. He found that his neighbours, the Cawoods of Ganna Hoek, were friends of ‘Miss Schreiner’ and it was on their farm that he met her two and a half years after reading her novel. Their friendship became a courtship in the months that followed, and when she left Ganna Hoek it was sustained by correspondence. Schreiner then spent some months in England in 1893, during which time she also considered whether or not to marry Cronwright. As she commented to Edward Carpenter in July that year, “In Africa is a man I love & who loves me, but I’m not quite sure that marriage would be right”, although the situation seems to have been more complicated than this suggests in two respects. One concerns Schreiner’s extremely close relationship with Mary Sauer, and the other Cronwright’s entanglement with an older woman. However, on her return to South Africa and a year after their first meeting, they were married at Middelburg in the Eastern Cape, not far from the Krantz Plaats farm. About her wedding, Schreiner commented in a letter to Betty Molteno, “I am going to keep my old name of Olive Schreiner, so just address that & P.O. Halesowen. I am going to be married by the magistrate just in my ordinary walking dress that I wear every day, & we are to go down to our Farm the same day.” Cronwright adopted Schreiner’s name and became Cronwright-Schreiner.
Before marriage, Schreiner commented in a letter to her brother that her asthma would prevent her living at Krantz Plaats, although in fact she did do so immediately following the marriage. However, Schreiner’s asthma eventually forced them to leave the area and the couple settled in Kimberley, a place where Schreiner both enjoyed living and also experienced good health. It was here on 30 April 1895 that Schreiner gave birth to their only child, a baby girl who died the day after her birth. In the aftermath of this, Schreiner and to an extent Cronwright-Schreiner increasingly involved themselves in political activity, particularly in opposing the powerful stronghold Cecil Rhodes held over public life in Kimberley and beyond. In August 1895, Cronwright-Schreiner read Schreiner’s The Political Situation in Kimberley Town Hall, causing something of a stir because it directly named and took on the Rhodes conglomerate and its activities. Cronwright-Schreiner accompanied Schreiner to Britain in 1897, where they arranged for the publication of her Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, also outspoken in its criticisms of Rhodes, this time regarding his Chartered Company and massacres it had carried out on ‘rebels’ in what were then called Matabeleland and Mashonaland.
On their return to Kimberley, Cronwright-Schreiner found that Moses Cornwall, the electoral returning officer in Kimberley, had had Cronwright-Schreiner’s name removed from the electoral roll. Unwisely, in a letter to the Diamond Fields Advertiser Cronwright-Schreiner commented that Cornwall had been employed to deliberately disenfranchise him because of his well-known hostility to Rhodes, Cornwall sued for libel. The ensuing trial cost the couple dearly, one of many occasions when Cronwright-Schreiner’s precipitous behaviour, embarked on against Schreiner’s counsel, ended in disaster. During this period Cronwright-Schreiner wrote a book entitled The Angora Goat and a Paper on the Ostrich (1898) and several shorter pieces on similar topics. Then, because his funds were nearly exhausted, he articled himself to a firm of attorneys in Johannesburg, where the couple moved, Schreiner with considerable reservation and because she put his needs first. On the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, Cronwright-Schreiner abandoned his position with this firm and arranged for himself and Schreiner to stay on a relative’s farm a long distance from Hopetown and so entirely removed from ‘the action’, thereby preventing Schreiner from taking up the position of war correspondent which had been offered to her and also isolated her from all the activity around the war in which she had earlier been keenly and prominently involved.
During the South African War, of which both Schreiner and Cronwright-Schreiner were very outspoken critics, Cronwright-Schreiner spent six months in England in 1900 campaigning against British military action. He embarked on an extensive lecture tour organised in part by the so-called ‘pro-Boer’ movement, but on a number of occasions his speeches were disrupted by ‘jingo mobs’ that not only heckled him, but also on occasion violently attacked him. Some commentators have speculated that, “It seems likely that Cronwright’s experiences in 1900 - and they must have tortured his nerves - had permanently altered his personality” (Buchanan-Gould 1949: 195). It was also on this visit to England that Cronwright-Schreiner came to know many of Schreiner’s British friends from the 1880s, including Dr and Mrs Philpot.
After his return to South Africa and the couple’s relocation to the remote village of Hanover, Cronwright-Schreiner became an estate and insurance agent after the South African War. In 1904 Cronwright-Schreiner’s feckless business and other dealings once more created difficulties; first his clerk was found to be embezzling money, and then Cronwright-Schreiner was sued by a local attorney. Schreiner explained in a letter to Betty Molteno, “As I sat writing a terrible blow has fallen on me. ((this is for you & Miss Greene only)) Cron came in & told me he had to leave for Cape Town tonight he has to go tonight. De Villiers the little attorney here is bringing an action against him for one thousand pounds damages for some things Cron wrote about him to the chief sheriff in Cape Town.” Later in the same letter she added, “You see I couldn’t leave him [Cronwright] any more than a mother could leave her little child. He will always be in trouble. If we weather this something else will come soon.” Their marriage it seemed had become a burden of duty for Schreiner, but one that she was unwilling or unable to abandon. Certainly this is one of the very few occasions when Schreiner makes any references in her letters to her marriage and its difficulties, preferring instead to gloss these with the phrase ‘great is silence’.
Meanwhile Cronwright-Schreiner continued to develop his political career. In 1902 he was elected to the Cape legislative assembly, and remained a member until the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. In 1907 he sold his business in Hanover and the couple moved to the railway town of De Aar, again on Schreiner’s part with reservations outweighed by her comments in letters about his need to do so. In De Aar, he opened a new law, estate, auctioneering and general agency and developed a flourishing independent social life. By 1913 Schreiner’s health had deteriorated badly, and she decided to travel to Europe to seek medical attention. It is likely too that the marriage to Cronwright-Schreiner had by this time broken down irretrievably. Certainly the few extant letters exchanged between the couple during the period prior to Schreiner’s departure for England painfully attest to this. Schreiner’s letter of 2 July 1913 explains her reasons for wanting to leave but also encourage Cronwright-Schreiner to take an extended holiday and suggest that they might arrange to meet up from time to time. With regard to a possible meeting up in London she comments, “I would be willing to meet Mrs Philpot if she called on me because she is
After Schreiner’s departure from South Africa, her letters to Cronwright-Schreiner continued regularly (as he states his did too) while he remained in De Aar. In 1919 he sold his business, having decided to retire, and joined Schreiner in England for some months in 1920, in his case because he was en route to an intended visit to America. By this time Schreiner had already decided to return to South Africa, which she did soon after his arrival, so they coincided in London for a very short period. She died in Cape Town in December 1920. Cronwright-Schreiner wrote sparely onto the telegram sent to him by Fan Schreiner announcing Olive Schreiner’s death, “Received 5.40pm 13th December 1920 50 Cambridge Terrace, London, W.2. I first got the news in the papers at breakfast.” Cronwright-Schreiner only returned to South Africa in 1921, where he then arranged for Schreiner’s reinterment on Buffel’s Kop. In London, his American trip abandoned, he set to work gathering papers and letters and became his famous wife’s biographer and editor, which activities led him to produce The Life of Olive Schreiner (1924) and The Letters of Olive Schreiner (1924), and posthumously publish with various amendments her Thoughts on South Africa (1923) and Stories, Dreams and Allegories (1923), and also her two novels From Man to Man (1926) and Undine (1929). His biographical publications were not universally well-received. Certainly members of Schreiner’s family, including Fan Schreiner, regarded The Life as Cronwright-Schreiner’s ‘novel about his wife’, and his editorial practices in preparing The Letters involved the destruction of some thousands of Schreiner’s letters (for a detailed discussion of Cronwright-Schreiner’s editorial practices see Stanley and Salter 2009).
In 1924 Cronwright dropped ‘Schreiner’ from his surname, and in the same year married Leonora (‘Lyn’) Gann (nee Bush) in England. A daughter, Cronlyn, was born to them in 1925. In 1930 he issued his last book, an address to his four-year-old daughter called Her South African Ancestors. Cronwright settled in Rondebosch in Cape Town where he died following a stroke in 1936. He was interred beside Olive Schreiner, her baby daughter and her dog Neta on Buffel’s Kop. The very large majority of Schreiner’s extant ‘letters’ to Cronwright-Schreiner are the heavily edited, bowdlerised snippets which appear in The Letters and their relationship with Schreiner’s original letters is unknown but troubled. A few whole letters remain; some are part of the collections at the University of Cape Town, and a few are archived at the National English Literary Museum.
For further information see:
Vera Buchanan-Gould (1949) Not Without Honour: The Life and Writings of Olive Schreiner London: Hutchinson
Samuel Cronwright-Schreiner (1906) The Land of Free Speech: Record of a Campaign on Behalf of Peace London: The New Age Press
D. R. Beeton (1968) ‘Cronwright (Cronwright-Schreiner), Samuel Cron’ in (ed) W.J. de Kock Dictionary of South African Biography Vol I Pretoria: National Council for Social Research, pp. 191 - 192
Ruth First and Ann Scott (1980) Olive Schreiner: A Biography Andre Deutsch
Liz Stanley and Andrea Salter (2009) “‘Her letters cut are generally nothing of interest’: The heterotopic persona of Olive Schreiner and the alterity-persona of Cronwright-Schreiner” English in Africa 36: 7-30
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- Olive Schreiner: S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner SMD 30/33/e:From Mrs W. P. Schreiner, CA 51 K CAPETOWNPO 12 LG/11., CRONWRIGHT SCHREINER STANDARD BANK CLEMENTS LANE LN., OLIVE DIED PEAC...
- Olive Schreiner: S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner 88.7.3:9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd=, W., April 2nd 1917, My Pal, I have your letter at last. I am now in my new rooms, much [pape...
- Olive Schreiner: S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner SMD 30/33/g:[page/s missing] interested in the abnormal - not the exceptional, but diseased. His works ought to be called "the pathology ...
- Olive Schreiner: S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner SMD 30/33/i(ii):Durrants Hotel, Manchester Square, W., Wednesday Monday, My Pal,, Terrible raining, dark weather. Wet fog for five days; gas ...
- Olive Schreiner: S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner SMD 30/33/k:Dec 9th 1920, My Pal,, I hope you have been able to get out of the London fog soon. They are choaking. I shall love to think ...
- Olive Schreiner: S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner SMD 30/34/b(ii):Sunday night, Dear Pal,, I would like to go to England. Don't think that treatment can cure me, but it might mend me enough t...
- Olive Schreiner: S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner SMD/30/34/c:My dear Pal, You have so many letters to read I'll be as short as I can, darling. A year & a half ago when Emily Hobhouse...
- Olive Schreiner: S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner SMD/30/34/e:[page/s missing], 3, or as long as you want it you are sure of that small room, & lots of room to store your luggage but ...
- SCCS Edited Extracts: Four groups of edited extracts from Olive Schreiner's letters can be accessed from here, made by her estranged husband Cronwr... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/1:…There’s a very nice leader in the E. P. Herald on your letter. Fan says our letters have been a comfort to Will....
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/2:…My Cron, Won’t you please go this afternoon, my Sweet? It will comfort me so, your Olive. Do Chummie... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/3:…I must go to Mrs Cawood’s this afternoon because I fancy my being here gives old John trouble though he doesn’...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/4:…My own husband, I seem to want you more here than anywhere… Tell me if you are keeping well … Before I go ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/5:…As I remember Dordrecht it was a nice little town but I was only there a couple of months… I slept the whole of ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/6:…Dear, your little wife just wants to catch hold of your black curls. It’s strange how this place is connected wi...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/7:…We went to Drake’s yesterday. Old Wood wrote me a very nice letter giving me the morgen of land. If I’m al...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/8:…ill or killed… terrible day…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/10:…Hope good meeting… , Mill is sleeping behind the stove & I’ve lighted your lamp on your table to make ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/11:…Last night the stars were so beautiful. I seem not to have seen them so beautiful & with such meaning to you…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/12:… Oh my sweet Chummie, I hope it will be very nice seeing the bokkies (the trekbokke) & that you will be well all t...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/13:…I love you, my dear one. When I think of you my heart runs all out in little ripples of love to you… You’v...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/14:…I’m glad it was nice at Cradock & at dear old John’s (the farm)… Don’t trouble about bring...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/15:…Did I tell you the day or so after you went I went to see Mrs. Solly (in Kimberley). There were some lovely likenesses...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/18:…The little monkey is so sweet. This evening when he got cold & sleepy, he called & called to me, & when I ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/19:…My own husband, I never missed you as I did this afternoon. Such a terrible depression came over me when you went…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/20:…Intuitions are strange things on the surface, but really there is nothing wonderful about them. They are simply based ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/21:…St Francis is the worst of all Saints to me; quite as human and tender as Jesus is represented to be… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/22:…It was so bad at Kroonstad… bad at Kroonstad that it actually delayed the train twenty minutes… it must ha...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/23:… Johannesburg does not seem like when you were here…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/24:…I can be quite happy here or anywhere if you are with me and loving me… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/25:…The life at the Homestead I know and understand fully is quite impossible to a man of your constitution and temper…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/26:…It is two weeks tomorrow since I came here. I have proved now that I can exist here at least as well as in Kimberley.…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/27:Between the artist soul and God alone can never lie the awful answer to that question, is my work complete, is it the express...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/28:…When you look at my hand when I am dead, you will be able to think that that had hand never set one dot or one stroke ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/29:You know, my dear o one, ever since I was a little child, life in a city has always been intolerable to me. Only you could ma...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/30:…You know it’s very curious my curious horror of uncertainty that makes me hate all games of chance, all thing th...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/31:…has spent months, he says, searching all the old registers and Burgomasters’ books which they have had in the vi...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/32:…The asthma and cold are better but my heart is troubling me a good bit. I find the nitrate of amyl very good... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/33:…It sees to me a ridiculous thing that you can’t transfer your articles from one state to another in South Africa...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/34:…Our little baby was born at a quarter past twelve on the morning of the 30th April 1895. I was put under chloroform an...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/35:…Yes, George Sand was an infinitely greater er woman than George Eliot, but not so finished an artist. Just as I think ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/36:…Haeckel was a second rate man, but a first-rate second-rate…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/37:…Just got here. I had a good journey, when judging of as I do all journeys. Dear old Robert met me at the station &...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/38:…Leaving tomorrow to Pretoria, not returning here. Write Pretoria…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/39:…You will get into your office today…, Have been lying down in bed all day day …. Our (looted) Our things a...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/40:…Your bedstead is smashed & the two side bars gone. Your old desk that you gave me has evidently been smashed open ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/41:…My experiences here have been painful. I am feeling so heart sore that if it were not for (some business affair), I wo...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/42:…I am feeling better since I got here; my brain seems resting a little… I hope you are not getting such a rush of...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/43:…I got here yesterday morning, & have not a touch of asthma as yet… I suppose Ollie goes with you to the offi...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/44:…It is heart breaking about our things in Johannesburg. Everything was smashed up & destroyed, but I’ve had t...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/45:…Fancy the bread turning wet & mouldy in one day on the lower shelf of the cupboard in the dining room… Ollie...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/46:…My own sweetheart, I wonder if you know how my heart is running out to you. Tomorrow is Alfred’s birthday & ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/48:…I have got into Naude’s house. It seems very nice to me only the papers are so bad…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/49:…We are just leaving De Aar. One thinks only of our three dead men lying in the sand… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/52:…My darling Husband, if only you were here I would be so happy. I long for you so, more here than at home… The Pu...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/53:…Yesterday I spent the day at the Highlands with Mother. It is simply lovely there, the place is so beautiful you would...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/54:…I am so glad ‘Arriet is at the office” Yesterday I went to the Highlands. There was a big gathering in my ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/55:…I saw the governor yesterday Just after seeing him I got a terrible attack of the heart… but I took a lot of dig...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/56:…I have such a longing to see you. I think I never longed to see you so much & I know it’s so foolish… ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/57:…I am longing to see Arriet & the dogs & the two new babies. If you were here I wouldn’t mind staying but...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/59:…It has been a bitter disappointment to me that I could not leave on Friday. I don’t get any more good by staying...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/60:…Thinking of you Dear, coming meet you station tomorrow… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/61:…all the animals are well… flourishing… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/62:…Miss Viljoen’s brother from Johannesburg is here. He says the Uitlanders are very “opstanding”. He s...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/63:…frost the night before last… All the animals are well & sweet. Tommie & Emmie are learning too to come &...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/64:…In the Midland News I have seen the speech the (SA) Party delivered. It is exceedingly clever & polite; but rather...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/65:…Such a perfect day here, dear Husband, neither hot nor cold, perfect(ly) calm and still. Like a soul that has found th...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/66:…We I am tried, dear; we are very, very lonely here, I am so glad I came for the sake of the others… I have much ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/67:…We have had three days of the most awful dust & wind I have ever known in my life. Thick, thick clouds of white du...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/68:…I took dear little ‘Arriet out of the cage & let her lie with me on the bed all the afternoon & she swif...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/70:…I put the little mierkats with little food basket & took them out for a walk on to a little koppie near the town t...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/72:…Yesterday I went to look at the farm Uitkyk. It is very nice & open & clear & good food. I am only afraid ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/73:…Such a charming young British woman….. Who spends her life looking after the old grandfather who is 80; she need...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/74:…I felt so anxious about you last night, so curiously heavy & depressed. I could not sleep all night. How are you d...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/75:…We got here about an hour ago from Beaufort. We got to Beisjes poort on Thursday evening about 9 o’clock, as the...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/76:…It is a beautiful & morning, not a cloud in the sky, but the mountains all round are white with the snow, to Zwart...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/77:…I have not real asthma here, but it is in my chest & eyes… & my... I am not so fit but I do hope the ast...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/78:…Mrs Le Roux is very anxious you should come up here. I suppose you wouldn’t care to come up from Friday to Monda...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/79:…We all want you here so, Dear, n even the little wife… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/80:…The people here are very kind nice & kind; good food & everything very clean. I would like to see you, & t...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/81:…I hope you are feeling stronger & eating heaps. Eat, eat, eat, & don’t worry about anything, my darling…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/82:…Yesterday there were a lot of strange dogs & people here & Tommie got a fright & ran away & wouldn’...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/85:…It was so beautiful to have you here. It all seems quite homelike now. I listen to the trains going past in the night ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/88:…Yes, you are very tired in body, my beloved, & tired a bit too in soul. I wonder sometimes if since you went to Jo...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/89:…I had a very acute attack of bronchitis; it was only by dear Miss Molteno getting me a hot bath & of three days su...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/90:…Ettie writes me that mother is very sinking & weak. Every note the little mother writes is about you coming & ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/91:…The mierkats are playing about me on the verandah. Miss Molteno & Miss Greene have gone for a walk. I’m afra...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/92:…When I said ‘chance’ in my other letter to you I should perhaps have said ‘fate’. But either c...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/93:…Oh it is such a glorious day, my husband. I wish you were here to go for a short walk over the hills in the exhilarati...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/95:…Arrived safely at Fraserburg Road, dear one. Will soon be at Uitkyk now; so happy to have been with you... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/96:… We are going to Prince Albert on Monday next, Mr Le Roux driving the whole family over in two carts. I shall be there...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/97:…I had pleasant women & a good little boy in my carriage, & got here yesterday afternoon, looking so well that ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/98:…Neta lay on the ground & howled with delight when she saw me & then ran round & round till she fell on the...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/99:…There was a Welsh woman on the train who was going to join her husband at Beaufort West, & she always called him h...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/100:…I have sent the papers for the house, no doubt it will be papered quite in time, but what I fear is the smell of the p...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/102:…I had a terrible fright this morning. The black girl suddenly called out the mierkats were being attacked by a strange...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/103:…a little poem on the mierkats Miss Greene wrote on the train going to Port Elizabeth & sent me yesterday... , One ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/104:…I do hope you will find all well with your business in Hanover. You could not stand much more worry, so now I am as yo...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/105:…Returning Uitkyk Tuesday hope all well dear husband… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/106:…How does my darling feel? I wish train journeys mn did you good as they do me. I have no asthma here & am very wel...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/107:…We leave tomorrow for Uitkyk… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/108:…I am ill, so shall not be leaving soon - Returned Uitkyk last night... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/110:…I think we shall surely leave tomorrow. I hope so, as I want to leave for Hanover this week if I can. I shall only sle...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/111:… I am ill, so shall not be leaving soon. Returned to Uitkyk last night… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/112:…I am leaving this on Tuesday for Hanover to go on to Bloemfontein on Thursday... Your wife who loves you... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/113:…I am out of bed today but a bit shaky about the legs. I felt ill some days before I left Prince Albert but tried to fi...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/114:…I got here at five this morning. My chest is bad... I have a great pain in my chest. The Du Toits are very kind; she i...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/115:…I have not gone. My chest is very bad…, My chest has got much worse since I came to Hanover, such bad expectorat...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/116:…I am better much, but have a great pain in my chest & hands are swelled. I think it’s purely my heart…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/117:…I wonder what plan we are going to make about the house. It seems to me it will all be right when you come. Your littl...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/118:…It seems so beautiful to think I shall see you here tomorrow. It has seemed as if we were never going to see anything ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/120:…Darling, we had the hottest journey down that any where in my life I have ever had. It was Hell. All the men were in t...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/122:…The Purcells are very sweet & kind... I have had no touch of asthma here. I long for Neta & Ollie & ‘...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/123:…My Dear Heart… This will reach you on Xmas Day, my darling. Surely some one will ask my Husband to go & have...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/125:…Good morning, my husband. I do hope you are still at Beaufort West & going to have a good Xmas Day with friends. I...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/126:…I have got your wire from Hanover saying you are there... I wonder what you get to eat & how it goes with my Cron ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/127:…I am leaving tomorrow morning… I felt so anxious about you in the night. I wondered if you were well & where...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/128:…You are now leaving Beaufort West. I got back here all right... All success be with you, darling, & better still, ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/129:…Better today dear husband. Hope all goes well... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/130:…You are starting for ?Klein ?Zwartburg… , There is not much news to give you as I never go out or see anyone. Va...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/131:…Oom Jan ill, can’t come… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/132:…I hope some of your speeches will be like that long splendid little speech you made here. It was delivered so clearly ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/133:…I wonder people who are rich are ever sad, because you could always be giving something to someone & doing somethi...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/134:…all last week I was so ill that on Thursday I wrote to Ettie to be ready to send me a nurse from Cape Town if I wired ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/135:…Got your wire this morning saying meeting at Beaufort West…was great success. So glad… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/137:…There is a panic about fever... , Neta & Ollie are so sweet, they lie by you all day on the bed one on each side t...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/138:… I can’t remember the day of the week… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/141:…Am a bit better today, temperature nearly down to normal... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/144:…all right… better…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/145:…You vary strangely as to your appearance & age. When I first saw you, at the Cawoods if Mrs Cawood had not told m...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/149:…Many happy returns all goes well heavy rain... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/150:…Dear one, I want you to get a wire from me tomorrow on your birthday… I hope it will be a nice day & everyon...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/152:…My dear Husband, this is your birthday night. I hope you had a good day, & I hope someone gave you a good dinner. ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/153:…My Dear husband, before I got your letter this morning, Dr. Wilson called & said you had asked him to call as you ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/156:…It has been a lovely day, heaven & earth perfect, the air at no time so hot that to go out would be unpleasant. Ye...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/157:… I see your speech in the S.A. News ; it is a first rate speech. I am much, much better... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/158:…Were you depressed or worried about anything on Wednesday night? I was so miserable & anxious about you all night,...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/160:…I sent you a note to Hudson’s care, asking you to get the books from Robert that Mrs Pullinger had… & ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/162:…Tell me how Neta is. Tell ?Gobanie I will bring him back a present... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/163:…Send all letters immediately Balfour, Stockenstroom especially Wills… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/164:…Please keep all the nartjes till I return. Leaving Cradock for Cookhouse, Friday... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/165:…Wire Balfour. Keep letters Hanover. I am well love... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/166:…Write. Send letters care Alcott, Bedford. Am well dear... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/167:…Leaving Balfour Friday morning, arrived Bedford Monday probably. How are you husband... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/168:… Leaving Balfour today, not going Healdtown, arrive Bedford Sunday... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/169:…Arrived this morning. Leaving Tuesday. Will wire again. Love… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/170:…At Cookhouse we found Mrs Alcot & her daughter waiting for us; they had come over from Bedford to meet us… A...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/171:…My husband, we left Bedford on Thursday afternoon in a strange old buck-waggon with a little tent at the back. We have...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/172:…My darling Husband, I am sitting in the waggon half way between Adelaide & Blinkwater. We have been outspanned her...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/173:…We arrived here at dawn this morning… The saloon carriage which Will has arranged to meet us here will not arriv...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/174:…Your sweet letter came to me yesterday when I was working by the grave. It was such a comfort to me. I have read it ov...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/175:… We have been here now five days... This place & work is very very sad. All is so changed here, even the old trees...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/176:… It is quite nice to be again in a world where there are posts. At Balfour there are only two a week, & only one f...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/179:…The train was pretty full at Hanover Road, so the conductor has put me in a beautiful large saloon with seats for eigh...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/180:…Pouring rain but both well. Love, dear husband…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/181:…Ettie is to come to see me at 8 o’clock & tell me all the full arrangements for the funeral on Friday…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/182:…Thank you my husband for the letter I got this morning. It made all the day seem lighter… Sweet little Neta is o...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/183:…No use operation May live a couple of months… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/184:…Dr Hutcheon & Robertson examined Neta. I laid her on her back & knelt by her on the floor. She was quite quiet...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/185:…Good night, my Pal. I shall be glad to see the clean sand & the mierkats & Gobalie but the thing I want to see...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/186:…I came here yesterday. The place is too lovely for words, & the dear friends so sweet; but I sat up all night with...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/187:…I took little Neta to Hutcheon again today. He was very kind & had a long talk about her, but did not could not re...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/188:…I took Neta again this morning, but dear old Hutcheon would not operate. He was however very kind, says I must let him...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/189:…I will leave on Wednesday. I must be with you. You love Neta so too. It’s been a hard two weeks here, dear. I wo...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/190:…I am going to get up early tomorrow & go out before nine & shop the whole day only coming up once or twice to ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/191:…I have felt so lonely here. I have actually gone out to the ----, great Jingoes as they are, & it was such a comfo...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/192:…Darling, got here splendidly, the air so nice & cool. I wish I had left something nicer for you than those tough s...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/193:…Cool, almost cold here. Country all green & under water. Drought in the Free State almost worse than in Hanover…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/194:…I have got a seat in a carriage with only one woman & a child, but the woman wants to take my seat facing engine, ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/195:…From Vereeniging to Johannesburg we went by the new line, using the first train that had ever passed upon it... Advoca...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/196:…Everyone is so sweet & kind here. There are thousands & thousands passing up from Johannesburg. De Wet is stay...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/197:…We had a splendid day for the funeral yesterday, cool & grey, cloudy, but no rain… I am perfectly well…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/198:…I have no asthma, not the slightest touch since I left Hanover & at Pretoria my heart was splendid, better even th...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/199:…I have the most splendid story about M. to tell you. He is a coward…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/200:…Rain tank half full. Well dear husband… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/201:…You will just be arriving at Prince Albert now, I think. It’s about 6 o’clock… I hope the speeches i...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/202:…I gave most of the buck away but roasted a bit of loin yesterday. It was without exception the most delicious bit of v...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/203:…Your little note written near Three Sisters has just come. It is very sweet to me. The expression of sympathy & un...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/204:…I’ve read that life of Cavour. It’s exceedingly able. It greatly intensifies the feeling I have always had...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/205:… The weather was very cold! Mierkats all sleeping round the stove!... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/206:…I suppose you hadn’t time to read myl my bit of MS.? It’s difficult for me to judge at it apart from the w...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/207:…I wrote till twelve o’clock last night, & then read Whitman till one. There was a time when Browning seemed ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/208:…Ollie is quite lost without you. She keeps going down the stairs to look for you. You look so very tired, my darling…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/209:…Soon after you left this morning, the heat ended and a dense cold mist came over the Kloof Nek. It is quite cold now. ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/210:…I was very glad to get your letter & it was such a surprise too, I wasn’t expecting it. I’m glad you l...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/211:…I am writing the article for the Cape Times re Taal &c. But it will bring the hornet’s nest about my ears ag...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/212:…Pouring rain… Anna Purcell was here this morning here for a little while this afternoon. She says the mierkats a...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/213:…My article is finished. I am going down to see the News (S.Af, News) about printing it. I wonder if they will refuse t...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/214:…What of your new clerk (?Meyer). Please bring down with you some copies of your papers on spiders… I have a lett...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/215:…It’s shameful of those men to put you down as a director without asking your permission… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/216:…The only success that matters is keeping our souls clean & bright ---- & that’s so hard sometimes The an...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/217:…Ever since last night I have had such a longing to see you, such a kind of anxious feeling about you. I keep going to ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/218:…The two dogs are sleeping in the two arm chairs. I think like someone else they are longing for the old man back. My a...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/219:…Such a nice letter from your dear old mother this morning. She likes the letter in the paper so much. The dear old lad...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/221:…I took Ollie to sleep with me last night. She lay quite still curled up under my down quilt till morning. I took her o...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/222:…Yesterday afternoon I went to see ---- Mrs. Jan du Toit as I heard she was ill with a bad throat. I was glad to get ba...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/223:…I am so sorry you found all in such disorder at De Aar. I had hoped you would have an easy time there. The worry is wo...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/224:…It was a nice little bit of sunshine you coming today, dear one. I only wish there had not been that worrying business...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/225:…I am looking forward to my little trip on Saturday. The 5 mierkats have all been sitting up in front of the fire while...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/226:…I am back again, dear Husband. Our little house never looked were sweet & cozy. All the mierkats are well… I...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/228:…We got here finally, such a nice ride. I had such a delightful little visit, dear. Wish you felt as fresh as I do…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/229:…I’m so glad to hear it’s all right about ?Nathan. Yes, you must be very tied, sweet heart, with all that w...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/230:…Bring up some green peas & beans if you can & a few onions & potatoes... , Goodbye, my own pal, your littl...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/231:…You are now nearing Victoria West Road… She had been calling: “It’s curious that living away civilis...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/232:…The cold here is wonderful; sharper than anything I’ve ever known even in Hanover, but it’s suiting me spl...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/233:…I got your wire this morning. I am glad to know you are there all right. It has been very hot since you left. I took t...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/234:…It’s a very hot day, my husband; the hottest we have had for a long time. The Purcells left at 12 today. I had t...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/235:…I got here at 8 eight, my husband. At ten I went to the dentists …tooth smashed, not leaving tonight, writing…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/237:…Ollie cried for you in the most extraordinary way last night, all the evening she kept running about & whining: I ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/238:…I had just left Hanover again. Ollie caught a mouse in the bedroom, slept with her, & the mierkats are flourishing...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/240:…Gobalie is there. 130 lbs of fruit had come from Prince Albert… enough for a year...,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/241:…Mrs Burger brought me a J jug of buttermilk yesterday, that is all that has happened since I left… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/242:…Mrs Burger has been so kind, sent me over a nice dinner today (Sunday). I did enjoy it so... I have had a good deal of...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/244:…I hope you are now safely at De Aar... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/246:…All my real interest has gone from the Boer question for the present. They are more than able to take care of themselv...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/247:…Strange how near death always is to us, the one thing which is certain & yet we think of it so little it seems suc...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/248:…My own love, I don’t know why I feel such a great yearning about you, nothing else is in my thoughts. I shall be...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/249:…I suppose you returned from Beaufort West late last night. Your speech at De Aar I have just read. I think it splendid...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/250:…I’ve had such a happy day, dear. This morning Ollie & I went for a walk on to the top of the big flat-topped...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/251:…Rested, better, lovely weather, bright sunshine… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/252:…Oh this place is so lovely & the air so peaceful. Goodbye, dear Husband. My head is still so ?muzy, but I am much ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/253:…The mierkats box came today. I had them put in a nice sunny place in the kitchen yard. We had a fine day yesterday, bu...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/254:…The Purcells will go with us to Laingsburg too...,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/255:…It’s a beautiful, absolutely calm perfected morning, such as one absolutely unknown at Hanover or De Aar - like ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/256:…My chest is better; haven’t been out of the house for the last three days... , I feel curiously played out menta...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/257:…Out walking & basking in the sun. The rain & wind ?blowing ceased for a while… I am feeling much better…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/258:…I am glad your dentist was good & that it’s well over… The sand & heat were too awful… After...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/260:…It is 7 o’clock. I am sitting in the little waiting room, waiting for the train that will leave for Matjesfontei...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/261:…Got here at 5.12. Very cold but got into bed. Slept splendidly till 8. Had a good breakfast. Am now going to send you ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/262:…I can see so clearly now… I can feel the blood moving in my brain now on the top. Every one here is so kind to m...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/263:…It’s such a glorious day here. I feel so wonderfully better… Every moment is a joy, I mean a physical joy…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/264:…I wrote exactly three hours of my book yesterday & slept ten hours last night without ?hearing or stirring. Oh, I ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/265:…There was a glorious sunset as I came back, all the white masses of cloud on the mountains lighted up pink & gold ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/267:…I’ve got half a chapter done since I came here. 18th Did I tell you that, when Bessie Findlay heard that Robert ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/268:…You know I’ve got the feeling here that I used to have that I’d like to live hundreds & hundreds of ye...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/269:…Do you sometimes feel this Ollie’s love runs right across to you over the Karroo, & comes to your office &...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/270:…So poor old Martin went off suddenly! I remember seeing him first when I was five years old at Aliwal North…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/271:…All my life I have found that I do my best work in the early hours of the day. Strange to think of you having heat &...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/272:…Please send stove and little pot by passenger train… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/273:…I wanted it to heat things in the night, but I’m better now… I’m not bad dear, but my heart is very ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/274:…I long for your face so. I seem to want nothing else but just to see you… Take care of my husband for me. Rememb...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/275:…No dear, I wouldn’t on any account have you come for one day. If I were to wire for you, it would be only becaus...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/276:…Yes, you hit on the great blot in the character drawing in Coniston. It is ridiculous & impossible that that Cynth...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/277:…Sometimes for three days I don’t exchange a word with a human creature... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/278:…It always seems to me more & more that the only thing that really matters in life is not wealth or poverty, pleasu...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/279:…On the 9th or 10th I will return to Hanover spending one day there. If I were getting better here I would stay on what...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/280:…Feeling better, beautiful cold wind & digitalis, looking forward… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/281:…I slept last night, the first night for two weeks… , …great doses of digitalis”. Oh love, it is wick...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/282:…It was very very beautiful to have you here. I don’t know when in my life I have spent such a happy two days. I ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/283:…Dear old Brown is coming up to see me tomorrow: he will be here two hours… It will be splendid if they get the w...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/284:…Dr Brown came this morning. He says the pains I have are all from my heart. He examined me ?entirely says I am complet...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/285:…It’s a splendid day here, dear, & light & fresh for this time of the year. Would you were here… I ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/286:…I am taking strychnine & digitalis & they are me ... I went out and played some golf this morning, the first ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/287:…Yes, old Brown is good. It’s a pity he just came on one of those the very days when I had that sudden betterness...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/288:…How sweet of you to pay for me dear… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/289:…I wonder if you will think it as lovely as I do. After all these year I can go back there & feel exactly as I felt...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/290:…Everything is empty today: something has got los…. , I wrote at my book all the morning… I think your face...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/291:…How does my dear little house look? I love it so. I would b buy it from you & keep (it) all my life as a final pla...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/292:…There is still no one in the hotel. I never open my lips except to talk to myself & ask the waiter for things... , ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/295:…I don’t know when I’ve ever for years been so well as today. I’ve worked & written from this mor...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/296:…It is one of the “charmed days” - the sky blue, the sun shining, a sweet cool wind blowing. I went out to ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/297:…Yes, my dear one I can understand what ‘balm’ the quiet is to you with your dear sensitive brain, that fee...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/298:…Yes, dear, what your poor over-taxed brain needs is just a month in which to do nothing but eat & sleep & lie ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/300:…I hope Old Party will be alive when I go back. You know I think we shall just some day find her sitting in the sun dea...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/301:…I do hope the locusts will disappear… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/303:…The news has just come that the Springboks have just won 11 to nil. Simply astonishing. Great excitement. The Postmast...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/306:…It’s a curious day with a thick scotch mist over the mountains. I’d like to go out & play golf. It’...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/308:…I am getting better & better. I am getting quite hard, my muscles; its got that spring about it as you put it, whe...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/311:…If you undertake the business management entirely, for at least the first six months, it will be a success. I have fai...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/312:…I’m copying out the chapter of my work now, ready to have it type written... Beautiful & cool... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/313:…I wish I could have seen you ploughing Oh I do wish we lived right on a farm where we had only to work with the dear a...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/315:…Will meet the mierkats tomorrow…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/316:…The mierkats got here at 11 o’clock…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/317:…The heat is past; a cold South-East wind is blowing & there’s a glorious South East bank of cloud upon the t...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/318:…We’ve had the most absolutely perfect day here, one can dream of… General Malan is married & they have...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/319:…Do you know those days that are so beautiful that they make a big lump rise in your throat & something seems choki...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/320:…I can’t sleep much, & I always wake to find myself howling & my pillow nearly wet through… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/322:…Yes, I like Jagger. He always strikes me as one of the straightest men in the House… Just got my English mail: a...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/323:…I’m getting ‘fine’ with my work. Dear one, it’s very sweet of you to go with me to Hanover, bu...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/324:…It was so nice to see the old face this evening, but tired & worried I saw: yet a bit better than when it went dow...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/325:…Rug lovely, darling; many thanks for it; hope rested… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/326:…Did you see me waving the big towel on the back stoep after you? I watched the cart till it was a little speck going r...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/327:…I keep seeing your old face wherever I go..., I would like some one to sleep here, not because I’m nervous, but ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/328:…I’ve seen no one today except two boys who came to ask if I wanted to buy scorpions!... cleaning up the house &...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/329:…I’m so well today. Tomorrow I’m going to try to get to my writing …. The men are walking at the Tran...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/330:…It’s nice that De Aar is not so very far. If I stretched out my arm very much might touch a dear, iron grey head...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/331:…has resigned from the Library Liba Committee. He said he couldn’t afford to pay for library subscription, felt h...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/332:…My little girl’s parents are leaving & she is gone…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/333:…A truly terrible day: what must it be at de Aar… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/334:…I walked up & down for a long time after you went you went & sat on our beautiful stoep. Your birthday visit w...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/335:…I have a letter from Dr. Brown. He says Guy is at Valkenburg. 29th… ?Vatijin’s sou sister is to come (as s...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/336:…The little boy came last night… seems never out of my mind. Poor old Ettie… Didn’t Oliver do well…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/337:…My girl has come: she seems to be a perfect treasure… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/338:…Old Party (‘Arriet) is getting into the Nirvana stage now: she sits on the arm chair & out in the sun lookin...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/339:…Did you note in the papers that the Natal government means to have another native rising ?in ?... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/341:…It looks so nice…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/343:…Those dear women in London. It’s the finest stand women have made anywhere in the world yet; because only a woma...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/344:…My girl Lena is really splendid…. , 8.30pm. My god, Cron, I nearly got my wish! & “was looking out of ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/345:…Ollie has fallen passionately in love with my rug you sent gave me. Yesterday evening I wrapped it round my legs when ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/347:…It is interesting because I am a woman & he is a man. It’s very curious. If my book hadn’t been writte...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/349:…It’s curious I’ve hated thinness or any approach to it so all my life, it’s physically repulsive to ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/350:…I have painted my baby’s little inner coffin, the shell, a beautiful pure white with Aspinal’s Enamel &...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/351:…I am so absorbed & interested in my book. I don’t like to think of anything else. I suppose tonight will see...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/352:…Last night an owl sat on the roof for hours hooting, & every time it hooted Ollie at my feet gave a growl!... , <...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/353:…I must try to go for walks now it’s cooler, for poor little Ollie. But I do hate this veld here, so much, oh so ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/354:…Federation will only be bought at the price of all justice to the Native; with a terrible retribution in the years to ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/356:…I rather dread the two days at Mrs Kriel’s; but oh I look forward to going to that place with you in the cart......
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/357:…I got here about 11 this morning. Thanks to your thoughtful tipping, the guard came & helped me out nicely with ma...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/358:…I have got a letter from Mrs… asking me to be one of the vice presidents of the Woman’s Suffrage League th...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/359:…The older I grow the more intensely it seems to me that there’s nothing worth living for but love and tenderness...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/360:…As I can’t play golf with you, my stick will… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/361:…I am afraid that ‘my young man’ had a very cold drive. The fire was a great success, dear. How good of you...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/362:…You will be going off tomorrow morning early… Your wife wishes you all good wishes, deeper than her pen can writ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/364:…I was so glad to get your wire from Laingsburg I hope he meeting was good… Yesterday I had to send for Dr. Wilso...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/365:…It was so sweet of you to send me that wire yesterday. I am better this morning. I slept some, as the Yankies say, las...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/366:…Had fr fair night, feels better today, not immediate anxiety. Writing… Don’t come dear, please, am wonderf...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/367:…How has my poor night traveller got to De Aar?... I hope you got a bit of rest before work. My own Cron, I love you…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/368:…I’ve moved into the back bedroom today. There’s nothing like a change… , I did not have an attack of...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/369:…I’m mending up my clothes for P. E. ?Benjeur is greatly ?requisition… How do you spell aggarette? My dict...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/370:…Heavy rain. Goodbye, my young man, Ollie… It’s strange how that ideal of an absolute love & sympathy w...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/372:…My Pal, I’m much, b much better this morning. Who knows how much better I’ll be when I get away from Hanov...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/373:…I hope so much you found the office in perfect order & not too much nx. to be worked up… I wish I could be ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/374:…Oh I did enjoy my six days with you so much… You don’t know how that wine you gave me on my birthday is he...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/375:…Botha & all that stuff is sickening! Yes, there’s a bad time coming for the nation…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/376:…I hear that the cancer has fallen out of Oom Sarel’s stomach… Your golf score is fine... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/377:…Digitalis has brought Oom Sarel’s pulse down from 120 to 99... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/378:…Botha & the whole Transvaal attitude is loathsome… A dreary weary windy dark cold day today… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/379:…I’ve been sorting all my old letters. Nearly all my friends begin ‘My dear beautiful Olive,’ or ‘...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/380:…I watched your cart go round the bottom of the Spitz Kop; just after, the rain began. It is now a quarter past four, t...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/381:…I have an infinite love and tenderness for you, the like of which I have not felt for all the people who have been so ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/382:…It’s our little girl’s birthday. She would have been eleven years old. Oom Sarel is dying… take spar...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/383:…I hope your meeting did turn out a great success. The weather here remains very terrible, but a few pale streaks of su...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/384:…Weary, dreary, mizzle & wind. A dark grey sky from which thunder & lightening sometimes comes... I have got an...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/385:…I am much better… It’s only when one can’t work that the silence seems to great. Goodbye my own Ladd...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/386:…Con Lytton went to see Miss Molteno, who is very much impressed with her, says she’s like a goddess and “m...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/387:…’Arriet is very tame & she understands more than the others. I think with animals as with savage nations, th...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/389:…I hear from Miss Viljoen that a lion killed a man at Oppermans Kraal yesterday; a Kaffir herd. His head & legs hav...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/390:…Pouring rain. It is 11 o’clock & I have only just lit the fire & the mierkats are all sitting in front o...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/391:…So Garrett’s gone! Yes, how short life is. When I look back on mine nothing seems real & to make life worth ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/392:…I do hope it will be fine for the trip to Cradock next week. Be sure to stay at the Victoria Hotel; it’s beautif...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/393:…I watched your cart till if went round the foot of the Spitz Kop, & out of sight. The dear old slippers are lying ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/394:…Whatever you do, don’t move into that room till it’s quite dry!... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/395:…There’s a dense fog this morning. At 8.30 I could not see well in the house without a light, & not further t...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/396:…very hot & oppressive, but I have to keep the fire going to dry the air… Oh, I wish I could get my book done...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/397:…My dear Women, how they are coming on! You would have to know how I have loved women, & how much they are to me, t...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/398:…I have not yet been able to write… That one chapter is longer than Peter Halket. Now come two little chapters; t...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/399:…Glad you made such a good score at golf… About 7 o’clock this morning I put out my map & went to the s...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/400:…The cold here has been something that no words can describe; no fire made any difference; no clothes helped… , I...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/401:…I have never felt that age made any great difference between men & women, but the happiest marriages I have know I...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/404:…Yes, I know, dear, how tired & overworked you are… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/405:…No one has called on me but I’d like to see them all the same… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/407:…My old man (who is much sweeter to me than that brand new young man of 30 that I shall have someday”. My breath ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/408:…If I shouldn’t come back, you will know our baby’s little coffin is in the box at the foot of my bed. Don’...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/409:…There are heaps of white ants in the study. I have had the mierkats in to eat them… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/410:…It is a glorious day here. I had a splendid night last night… Ollie is looking everywhere for you. Oh, Pal, I do...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/412:…I’m a bit better today but rather flapdodally… I am sorry you find found things so disordered in the offic...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/413:…Lovely morning, dear. Everything looks so beautiful. Hex River white with snow. Had a splendid night. Air lovely here....
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/414:…Arranged Animals Eli. Longing see you. So lonely. Wire arrived…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/415:…I promise you to I’ll get some one if I am ill; but at present I’m well, & it only gives me an extra r...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/416:…I had a delightful journey here as far as sun & sunlight went. I began to breathe as soon as I got on the rise abo...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/417:…It is very hot… reading Theal’s History of S. Africa for the second time. I haven’t been able to wor...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/418:…My husband, I was so glad to get your letter from Prieska… I wish you could have a real holiday… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/419:…I will be glad to hear how things are at Prieska and at De Aar with the work. But that must wait till I come. You must...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/420:…I have just got your beautiful long letter from Prieska & De Aar. No one writes such interesting letters as you…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/421:…I’ve just re-read for the third time your interesting letter, It’s very interesting about that insect …...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/422:…It is such a glorious day, when ‘the genius of god doth show’. It seems almost wicked to be working in the...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/423:…Och, dear, I wish I could be always with you: I’m a poor little guard, but I’m something. Oh, I could bear...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/424:…A bitterly cold night… There was frost last night... I have had a fire here all day… This is the last lett...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/425:…Ollie & ‘Arriet have struck up the most wonderful friendship friendliness: they lick & caress each other...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/426:…I have just got your letter from Klaarstroom… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/427:…Ollie never leaves for me for one second. When I call you she looks for you everywhere…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/428:…I have discovered a new genius who will demand success, George Meridith wrote to an intimate friend… when he rea...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/430:…I do want to see the lines go out of my young man’s face - always so beautiful to me. Old or lined or not. Take ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/432:…asked me to write my name on a bit of paper for her; the sweet little woman flushed up to the roots of her hair & ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/434:…Mrs. Astrop is here. O. is much better…. ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/435:…I got such a sweet letter from your mother... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/436:…He’s a curious antidote to this commercial, striving, self-seeking, individualistic world. Man is not meant to l...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/437:…Mrs Logan took me for a splendid 4 hours drive this afternoon, to an old dam that I often used to ride out to in the o...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/440:…You are starting off for B’West again tonight... The food most excellent as M’fontein: they kill their own...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/442:…This morning I was on the balcony & saw the train come in, with two engines & smoke flying, & all going, &...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/443:…I wish you were in the train too. There’s no fun without old man Cron… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/445:… “the top of the rise” “the Klein Zwartberg mountains, white with snow & all lit up with ( most ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/446:…I sat up writing at my book till one last night & did a lot of work. I would finish my book in a little more than ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/448:…Wrote you a letter but dropped it in the street. Hope some one will post it… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/450:…”Tucker is splendid. As soon as the asthma gets bad, I begin to puff, puff, & it goes over’... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/451:…You are driving along in the train now, reading “Jock” perhaps. I am reviving already... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/452:…It’s too wonderful how much better I am tonight… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/453:…I send a little bird all across the Karroo to De Aar singing love, love, love to you. It’s my little thought tha...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/454:…I love you so dear, you know that, you’ll always know that, eh? I’d have done so much more to make life be...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/455:…What sweet letters you write me; they help me so… , Oh darling, how beautiful life would be if I could be well, ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/457:…One day, when Edward Carpenter dies, they will discover there as a great spiritual force among them., “And did y...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/458:…perfect weather…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/459:…Theo & Katie Stuart are living here now….,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/460:…It has been such a glorious wonderful day here. Even a bit of white wall with the sunlight falling on it, or a stone, ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/461:…Dear old head, I love it, when I see it bending over the papers writing… When I’m away from you & alwa...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/462:…Goodnight, my Pal. One night we won’t be able to say goodnight any more; we’ll both be lying still. Let us...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/463:…The food here is now awful. No electric light, one candle in a bedroom in a bedroom candlestick; old Vrek ?ooi for mut...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/466:…I fancy I see you walking about in the old little house I have loved so. Oh, if only we could trans transport that lit...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/467:…I don’t know where I shall go … There are times when I give up all hope, but I look at the dear old mounta...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/468:…You will be at Hanover now... Give my love to Miss Viljoen. She’s always been a true unchanging friend to me - a...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/472:…If you have to stay, do write me fully of mother’s condition. Oh, I am so glad you will be there with her before...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/474:…It was a surprise & delight to find your letter here when I came in this evening, my Pal…,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/476:…Did you see me waving the lamp outside as you went last night?...,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/477:…Although it’s a dusty day, there’s no dust at our house… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/478:…I do have dear good friends. I wonder if anyone has such loyal friends, & why they are sweet to me... , …wil...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/479:…I want it nicely plastered out and a tiny window at the back & a door in front with a fan-light. I want to make it...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/480:...Lever neef Jan, Ik stur for jo en article vat ik geschreva als ek. Maar Got hat daarm for oude Kleine Tantje eets lat seen...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/481:…I got here this morning an hour later. Had a delightful journey as the women let me sleep with both window & the d...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/482:…I enclose Jannie’s letter. It’s private of course. I don’t want a little Afrikander nation: if there...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/484:…You remember when Chomanie took my watch, you gave me an old one… The food is truly awful… A long letter f...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/485:…Miss Hobhouse says Smuts talks openly in the T’Vaal about shooting down the niggers as… , Letters are not ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/486:…It’s very uncanny in this big house all alone, but I don’t mind this sort of loneliness. It’s the me...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/487:…Gibbon says that quotation is on the grave of a Courtney in Devon. After speaking of the 55 years’ happiness he ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/488:…I have been watching a little ant this morning for more than half an hour. I think I never loved such a tiny creature ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/491:…You know I feel to anything that is oppressed or hurt just exactly as I felt to my little baby. I was lying on the bed...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/492:…That is an interesting talk of Jerome’s on marriage in the Nation you sent me. It takes, in quite another way as...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/493:…Mrs. ?C is dead. It’s strange that the death of a great beautiful person never affects me so painfully as one o...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/494:…Oh my love, my darling. I love you so. You will always know that I have loved you like nothing else on earth - that I ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/495:…Won’t it be lovely to be at old Lelie Kloof again? I feel as if I should be a young, young girl again if I go th...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/496:…It’s rather interesting about “The Hunter” being read to Herbert Spencer just before he died…....
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/498:… Sunday Morning… , …I got here last night. I got your letter in Cradock. I shall be home the end of this w...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/504:…We got here this morning, dear. The journey was delightful. You know how I love the train. The Kalahari is the most be...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/505:…Falls surpass all dreams. Splendidly well. Wish you here….,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/506:…We saw the Falls yesterday. I walked all through the Rain Forest & past the Danger Point. Oh Cron, no words can de...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/507:…We went up in a motor boat on Tuesday morning, a small motor boat with 15 people in it beside the man who worked it &...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/509:...I went to see Bill take his degree at the City Hall yesterday. When I saw the great crowd of girls in their caps & gow...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/511:…Dear loved one, I’m glad you like my writings. I wish I could more often show you myself that which you could as...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/512:…I had a long argument with Dot yesterday about marriage. She seems to think it ought to be a wild inebriation & ex...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/513:…The Beethoven Concert was heaven! We had the 7th Sympathy in A, perhaps the divinist thing the human spirit have ever ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/514:…Yesterday Will took me & Ursula to Frankfort-on-the-Main. It's about 3/4 of an hour from here by train. We went fi...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/515:...?Griesan ?Kr ?Seh ?Weidrietz..., …At Weimar I got out as I wanted to see Goethe’s house. It’s a pretty l...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/516:…It is funny why I have always to be out of everything. The day will never come when I can be in the stream. Something ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/517:…Thursday, My Cron, I have your long letter. I got it two days ago. When I got your letter & read the first page &...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/518:…After I’d finished writing to you today, I tried to lie down & read the papers, but I felt I was suffocating...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/519:…I have been reading The Way of All Flesh by Butler. I think the man Ernest is almost too weak & disgusting to be r...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/520:…There was a little deal box among the luggage Oliver brought to the station at Waterloo, a little larger than a soap b...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/521:…I also feel just as you do about Wordsworth. I did not like him at all when I was young - and now I read him with more...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/522:…When I sit here alone in the dark day after day, I know more & more & more certainly that nothing matters much...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/523:…I have no news to give you; have seen no one & heard nothing but what is in the papers. This I felt I must get out...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/525:…I don’t think absolute solitude is healthy for any human creature. Men need to talk just as they need to eat..., ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/526:…Yes, Janni has the most extraordinary faith in words I wonder if he thinks they must represent things. He ought to hav...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/527:…the terrible horror I feel for Hanover. It is the only place on earth I absolutely hate. When I think of Hell, I think...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/528:…I am so glad you are going to Winnie’s (Cambridge Terrace). You will find that much the best part of London in W...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/529:…I go to Jessie Innes tomorrow for a few days… How I look forward to it I can’t tell you… I am readin...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/530:…Jannie denied in the papers that he had asked for Connaught to be sent out----but no one believes him. “De Burge...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/531:…Friday night… Alfred and the two boys came to see me this evening. Cedric is a darling; the little chap is nice ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/532:…Masabala’s trial will come on on the second. It was a sort of Amritzar in Port Elizabeth, without the excuse for...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/533:…Ireland will never be free till there is a labour government in England. I have said that for thirty years. The wealth...
- Letters/436:To S. C. C. S., Kimberley, 2nd Oct., Think out your speech for the Cradock dinner. I want it to be so good. ... It's wonderfu...
- Letters/437:To S. C. C. S., Kimberley, 3rd Oct., It's strange to think you'll be at the old place, more instinct with intense emotion for...
- Letters/438:To S. C. C. S., Kimberley, 7th Oct., It's strange how the slightest uncertainty distresses and unnerves me; I never knew anyo...
- Letters/440:To S. C. C. S., ?Kimberley, 28th Feb., While you are at Rondebosch go for a walk in my dear wood and see that old Summer Hous...
- Letters/441:To S. C. C. S., Kimberley, 6th Mar., Dear love, it is terrible to love anything so much as I love you.,
- Letters/444:To S. C. C. S., Kimberley, 10th Mar., I am sure no child can ever realise what the feeling of a true “motherhearted" mo...
- National Library of South Africa, Cape Town: Special Collections at the NLSA provide one of the leading locations for archival papers across many periods, organisations a... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- NLSAOlive Schreiner: EL to C-S MSC 26/2.16/84:P.O Uitkyk, Thursday Morning, My husband,, , I had a bad day yesterday with the mierkats. Early in the morning I took them ...
- NLSAOlive Schreiner: EL to C-S MSC 26/2.16/87:[page/s missing], …Miss Molteno & Miss Greene went out for a long walks this morning. When they came back & cam...
- NLSAOlive Schreiner: EL to C-S MSC 26/2.16/148:Saturday Midday., Darling, I just got your letter., Darling don’t come to my sake. If you come to Hanover for business ...
- NLSAOlive Schreiner: EL to C-S MSC 26/2.16/302:2Hotel Milner, Matjesfontein, Dec. 1st 1906, Saturday morning., I have just got your letter. How like the weather seems here ...
- NLSAOlive Schreiner: EL to C-S MSC 26/2.16/348:[page/s missing], 2, …I have just been reading a story that rather interested me as reminding me of the Boer of the low...
- University of Cape Town, Historical Manuscripts: Manuscripts & Archives at the University of Cape Town is a leading location for accessing archival papers across many per... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold2/1909/29:Saturday night , Dear Pal, I tried to go & see mother this afternoon, I knew I couldn’t walk through the trees in t...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/16:Union-Castle Line, R.M.S “Balmoral Castle” , Friday, Dear, I am just writing a word to tell you Ive got a nice ca...
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- Mary Gladstone (Mrs Drew) Add. 46244, ff.189-190:Kensingston Palace Mansions & Hotel, De Vere Gardens, London, Telephone: 3675 Kensingston. Telegram: Apartment, London, M...
- Cory Library, Rhodes University: The Cory Library, Grahamstown, is a rich resource for books and archival papers pertaining in particular to the history of th... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- G.W. Cross MS 14, 462/2:Dear Mr Cross, We leave this on Monday by the early train for GT: spend a few hours there at the Railway Hotel with my little...
- G.W. Cross MS 14, 462/6:P.O. Box 406, Johannesburg , 5.4.99 , My dear Friend, I am just sending you a wire from Olive, who was so glad to get your le...
- G.W. Cross MS 14, 462/15:The Homestead , Saturday night, Dear Friend, Thankyou for your letter. I have of late a curious increasing clinging to all my...
- Alfred Mattison, Goldfields Collection, MS 16098/3:Hanover, Cape Colony, Feb 13 / 01, Dear Mat,, I was ever so glad to get your letter & the photo. I haven't got a photo I ...
- Cullen Library, Historical Papers, University of Witwatersrand: Historical Papers in the Cullen Library is a leading location for accessing archival papers across many periods, organisation... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- Findlay Family A1199/B Documents: Box 7/2:Hanover, Oct 17 / 00, Dear Hud, Thank you very much for the letter I got that I this morning. I enclose the documents, all I ...
- Findlay Family A1199/B Documents: Box 7/16:Stray Thoughts - Roberts Bros, Memorandum of Agreement, made the twenty fifth day of November 1895; between Olive Schreiner o...
- Findlay Family A1199/3589:The Homestead , Kimberley, 9 May 95, My dear Bessie,, Your kind note to your Aunt, about my brother Alfred, arrived yesterday...
- Findlay Family A1199/3649:Dear Brother, Cron is going over your MS & I have written to England about it to a magazine editor. I hope he will take i...
- Findlay Family A1199/3648:The Homestead, Kimberley, April 24 / 96, Dear John,, I have just this afternoon got your letter & the article. I was very...
- Findlay Family A1199/3709:The Homestead, Kimberley, Dec 3rd 1897, Dear John Findlay, Your truly inexplicable & astonishing letter was forwarded to ...
- Findlay Family A1199/3712:The Homestead , Dec 30 / 97, Dear Hudson, Thank you for your very kind letter. The picture of the house has not come with it ...
- Findlay Family A1199/3837:placed in heaps on the floors, & there are only burnt bits & odds & ends lying about my library, almost all prese...
- Findlay Family A1199/4081:De Aar, July 15th 1909, My dear Hud, Thanks so much for your letter. It's fine your having a farm & Bess going there. Tel...
- Greene Family: A sub-set of Schreiner’s letters to Alice Greene is held in the private collection of the Greene family heirs, (while o... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- GFP/OS-AG/1:Dear Friend, The speeches at the Woman’s Congress seem to me better than any we have yet had. all were good but if one ...
- GFP/OS-AG/3:Hanover, May 23rd 1902, Dear Friend, I’m so glad you are in such a lovely place. Nature has never seemed to me more inf...
- GFP/OS-AG/8:Hanover, July 8 / 04, Dear dear Friend, How often I am with you in thought you don’t know. I long so to hear that your ...
- Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin: The HRC, Austin, is one of the world leading locations for archival papers pertaining to literary life and manuscripts across... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- HRC/CAT/OS/4b-vi:Middelburg , Feb 219 / 94 , My Havelock I am to be married on Saturday morning. This is Monday afternoon. Old Theo is kindly ...
- HRC/CAT/OS/4b-x:[page/s missing], full life is that which lives in past present & future; in the life of the intellect, of the emotions, ...
- HRC/UNCAT/OS-146:Hotel Milner, Matjesfontein, Oct 20th 1906 , My dear Havelock , I’ve got the photograph. I agree with Edith its quite t...
- HRC/UNCAT/OS-148-a:Sunday Morning., Dear Havelock Boy. , I’ve been looking again at those bust things of yours. They are splendid. The man...
- HRC/CAT/OS/5b-ix:Alexi, The Park , Hampstead , Sunday , Dear old Havelock , I’m always thinking of Edith. I do think a few week’s ...
- HRC/UNCAT/OS-154:I’m so glad you have seen something of Cron He was delighted with his talk with you. I hope you will see more of each o...
- HRC/UNCAT/OS-155:Thanks for your letter. I hope you have seen more of Cron, he was quite enthusiastic about you after his visit with you to th...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/25:The Homestead, Kimberley, Cape Colony, 12th Apl. 1896, T. Fisher Unwin Esq, 11 Paternoster Buildings, London E.C., Dear Sir,, ...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/28:19 Russell Road, Kensington W., 20.1.97, Dear Mr Unwin,, It was gratifying to hear that you had so satisfactorily arranged th...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/29:19 Russell Road, Kensington W., 30.1.97, T. Fisher Unwin Esq, ---, Dear Mr Unwin,, With this I am returning, corrected, the f...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/30:New College Junior School,, Eastbourne, 2.2.97, Dear Mr Unwin, With this I return, corrected, the proofs which came this morn...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/31:New College Junior School,, Eastbourne., 3rd Feb. 1897, Dear Mr Unwin,, With this I return, corrected, the proofs which came ...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/32:New College Junior School,, Eastbourne., 4.2.97, Dear Mr Unwin,, Thanks for your note of yesterday, to hand on my arrival her...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/33:New College Junior School,, Eastbourne., 5.2.97, Dear Mr Unwin,, Your note to Mrs Schreiner arrived this morning. No proofs h...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/34:19 Russell Road,, Kensington, W., 6.2.97, 8.45 p.m., Dear Mr Unwin,, Your note of today has just arrived, but no proofs accom...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/35:19 Russell Road,, Kensington, W., 8th Feb. 1897, Dear Mr Unwin,, Your letter of today has just arrived (evening) with proof o...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/36:Dear Mr Unwin,, Thanks for the photo, which is fairly satisfactory. , Mrs Schreiner wishes you to reproduce in the style chos...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/37:19 Russell Road, Kensington W, 17.2.97 , Dear Mr Unwin,, Will you please send a copy of ‘Peter Halket’ to Robert ...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/38:19 Russell Road, Kensington W., 12.2.97, Dear Mr Unwin,, “Peter Halket” (two copies) has just arrived. Mrs Schrei...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/39:19 Russell Road, Kensington W., 13.2.97, Dear Mr Unwin,, Will you please send, for review, and advance copy of “Peter H...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/40:19 Russell Road,, Kensington W., 14.2.97, Dear Mr Unwin,, Thanks for your note, for the 24 copies, & for sending Mr Lutz ...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/41:19 Russell Road, Kensington W., 15.2.97, Dear Mr Unwin,, Will you please also send copies of “Peter Halket” for r...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/42:19 Russell Road, Kensington W, 15.2.97, Dear Mr Unwin,, Thanks for your note. I fear I have been somewhat of a nuisance in wr...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/44:Post Restante , Rome , Italy, 28.2.97, Dear Mr Unwin,, Thanks for your note with enclosures, forwarded from England; also for...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/45:Poste Restante, Rome,, 11.3.97, Dear Mr Unwin,, Thanks for the cuttings which you are so kind as to send, & which come re...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/46:Alassio, Italy, 28. Mch. 97, Dear Mr Unwin,, Your notes & the press cuttings you continue so kindly to send all duly reac...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/48:7 Rue Lemaitre, Puteaux, Seine, France., Dear Mr Unwin, Mrs Schreiner asks me to thank you for your note. She is at present i...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/51:7 Rue Lemaitre , Puteaux , Paris, 2nd June. 97, Dear Mr Unwin,, The cable which you so kindly sent has just come. I fancy som...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/52:19 Russell Road, Kensington,, London, W., 5.6.97, Dear Mr Unwin,, Thanks for your notes of 2nd and 3rd and 4th, June with enc...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/53:61 Chester Square , S.W., 21st June. 1897, Dear Mr Unwin,, Mrs Schreiner asks me to ask you to arrange about the German trans...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/54:61, Chester Square, S.W., 25. June. 97, Dear Mr Unwin,, Thanks for your note of yesterday., Mrs Schreiner says will you pleas...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/55:31 Lower Belgrave St, Chester Square S.W., 30. June. 97, Dear Mr Unwin,, Thanks for your letter. Mrs Schreiner asks me to say...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/57:Broadstairs, Sunday, 4.7.97, Dear Mr Unwin,, This place does not suit Mrs Schreiner’s health, & we are returning to...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/62:15 Gildridge Road, Eastbourne, 8th Aug. 97, Dear Mr Unwin,, Mrs Schreiner says she does not see anything objectionable to thi...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/63:The Homestead , Kimberley , Cape Colony, 7th Nov. ‘97, Dear Mr Unwin,, How about the “Political Situation”?...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/64:The Homestead , Kimberley , 20.11.97, Dear Mr Unwin,, Thanks for your note of 16th Oct. to Mrs Schreiner, and for the a/c &...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/65:The Homestead , Kimberley , 27. 12. 97, Dear Mr Unwin,, Thanks for your note of 29th Nov., with statement of “The Polit...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/66:The Homestead , Kimberley , Cape Colony, 26th Sept. 1898, Dear Mr Unwin,, Mrs Schreiner’s article appeared in “Co...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/67:Box. 2 , Johannesburg , South Africa, 19.12.98, Dear Mr Unwin,, You have no doubt by this heard from Dr Brown or Mrs Schreine...
- Johannesburg Public Library: Morthland Cronwright: Schreiner’s single letter to Morthland Cronwright is part of the collections of the Johannesburg ... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- JoburgPubLibMorthlandCronwright/1:My dear Morthland, Thank you so much for your letter of welcome. I wanted to answer it at once, but I was so very busy last w...
- Lytton Family Papers: Schreiner’s letters to Constance Lytton are part of the extensive family papers of the Lytton family and are held in th... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- Lytton 01229/9:Thomson’s Hotel, Middelburg., Oct 31 / 93., Dearest Lady Loch, Today you will get back to Cape Town. I wish so much I c...
- Macfarlane-Muirhead Family: Schreiner’s letters to Robert Muirhead are part of Macfarlane-Muirhead family collection and can be accessed at the Mui... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- MacFarlane-Muirhead/12:New College Junior School,, Eastbourne., My own dear old Chum, I wish oh so much you were in London, we shall be there till F...
- MacFarlane-Muirhead/15:Morley’s Hotel, Trafalgar Square, London W.C., 16th July. 97, My dear Bob, (Olive says you are “Bob”), Your...
- MacFarlane-Muirhead/16:The Homestead, Sep 23rd 1898, My dear Bob, It seems long since we had tidings of how the world was going with you three. Does...
- MacFarlane-Muirhead/18:Cronwright-Schreiner & Meyer , Law and Estate Agents. , Auctioneers, &c, Hanover and De Aar , Cronwright-Schreiner, L...
- MacFarlane-Muirhead/19:Hanover , Jan 22nd 1907, Dear Bob, I’m often wishing I had news of you all. How goes the world with you & the wife ...
- MacFarlane-Muirhead/20:P.O. Box 24, De Aar, Cape Colony, South Africa, Dec 24 / 07, Dear Bob & Lene, This is just a little line of Xmas & Ne...
- MacFarlane-Muirhead/22:De Aar, April 3rd 1911, Dear Bob, I’m sending you & Lene a copy of my book. It’s only a fragment but tell me ...
- MacFarlane-Muirhead/23:De Aar, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, May 28th 1913, My dear Bob, I hope the world goes well with you all. How is your own...
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- Smuts A1/187/80:Hanover, Jan 24 / 02 , Dear Isie , The little shawl for the head will do just as well in fact I only didn’t want a very...
- Smuts A1/187/81:Dear Isie , I was so glad, so very glad to get your letter this morning. I am writing at once I got all the parcels, the Tam-...
- Smuts A1/187/86:Hanover, July 11 / 02, Dear Isie , I like to think that by this time you have seen your husband: but am so sorry to know from...
- Smuts A1/187/88:July 30 / 02, Dear Friend, I hope I shall be able to leave this about the 16th for Johannesburg, but have not been able to he...
- Smuts A1/187/89:Dear Isie, I was so glad to get the joyful news you were better & going to your home., I meant to leave for Johannesburg ...
- Smuts A1/187/93:Hanover, Sep 26th 1902, Dear Friend, Will you do me a very great favour. , Please write & tell me exactly what you payed ...
- Smuts A1/187/94:Hanover, Sunday night, Dear Isie, I hope you got my last letter all right. I have yours & Daisy’s. , Cron is still ...
- Smuts A1/187/95:Hanover , Monday., Dear Isie , I was so glad to get your letter this morning. No my heart is not at rest about Boy Pienaar. H...
- Smuts A1/187/96:Hanover, November 28 / 02, Dear Isie, I was so glad to hear from you. I should like to be one of the visitors to the trees, &...
- Smuts A1/187/99A:Hanover , Aug 30 / 03, Dear Isie, Your letter was sent on to me here. All my heart goes out in love & sympathy towards li...
- Smuts A1/187/99B:Hanover, Oct 22nd 1903, Dear Isie , Its very funny that just this morning as I was thinking that as soon as I’d put the...
- Smuts A1/187/100:Hanover, Oct 30 / 03, Dear Isie, Thank you for the biltong. We get none here now as the soldiers nearly exterminated the buck...
- Smuts A1/187/100A:Hanover, Nov 21st 1903, Dear Isie, Many thanks for your letter & the enclosed cheque. We have changed our minds about hav...
- Smuts A1/188/62:Hanover, Feb 12 / 04, Dear Isie, I was so glad this morning to get the really beautiful photo of you three. It’s so goo...
- Smuts A1/188/63:Feb 22 / 04, Dear Isie, I am leaving this on the 1st for Cape Town. Cron is going down to parliament & I am going down wi...
- Smuts A1/188/65:Hanover, July 22nd 1904, Dear Isie , I was so glad to get your letter with its good news of little Sannie & all the rest ...
- Smuts A1/188/66:Hanover , September 3rd 1904, Dear Isie , Just the day after the beautiful fruit arrived I had to start off on a long journey...
- Smuts A1/188/69:Hanover, Nov 20th 1904, Dear Isie , No, I wouldn’t think of letting you pay for my coming up; it is good enough of you ...
- Smuts A1/189/78:Hadden Hall, Tamboer’s Kloof, May 24th 1906, Dear Isie , I got here yesterday & found your letter here sent on from...
- Smuts A1/190/42:de Aar, Oct 13 / 07, My dear Isie , Thank you so much for your letter, & your loving invitation. I fear I shan’t be...
- Smuts A1/193/85:De Aar , Oct 15th 1910, My dear Isie , I feel I want to write to you today. I never wrote Neef Jan to congratulate him on his...
- Smuts A1/194/9/61:de Aar, Tuesday , My darling Isie, How sweet your loving letter of invitation was to me. I don’t know if I shall be wel...
- Smuts A1/194/9/62:Darling Isie, I can’t come: it’s a bitter disappointment to me. I’ve got all I want to say ready in my head...
- Smuts A1/194/10/55:de Aar, Monday, Dear Isie, Thank you very much for your letter. I am back again at de Aar, feeling the sudden rise of 4000 fe...
- Smuts A1/195/45:de Aar, 2 May 1913, Dear Isie , It was so nice to seen to see you & the dear children, even for a moment. Thank you for y...
- T120 (M722): W.T. Stead Papers/64- pages 247-8:Dear Friend, I send you another letter from the same minister (a man whom you would greatly love & trust if you knew him)...
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- Olive Schreiner: Edward Carpenter SMD 30/32/b:Old years night, Dear Ed, This is just a note to tell you that Cron is going to England next week. He sails on the 10th by th...
- Olive Schreiner: Edward Carpenter SMD 30/32/c:Hanover, June 17 / 04, Dear old Edward, Some friends have asked me to come to England & they say you wanted me to come to...
- Olive Schreiner: Edward Carpenter SMD 30/32/gii:De Aar, Feb 6th 1908, Dear Edward, Months ago I began the enclosed letter. I haven't written because I wanted to go on with i...
- Olive Schreiner: Edward Carpenter SMD 30/32/k:De Aar, Sep 16th 1911, Ed dear,, I'm sending you another copy of my book. I think the mystery is solved as to what becomes of...
- Olive Schreiner: Edward Carpenter SMD 30/32/m:De Aar, April 29 / 13, /13, My dear old Edward, I wonder how the world goes with you. I often wonder just what your feeling a...
- Olive Schreiner: Edward Carpenter SMD 30/32/ri:Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Edward, Lady Low came to see me & I dined with her last...
- Olive Schreiner: Havelock Ellis 2006.29/5:De Aar, June 30th 1912, Dear old Boy, Thanks for your letter. Of course each person's "diary works" (I mean simple, spontaneo...
- Olive Schreiner: S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner SMD 30/33/e:From Mrs W. P. Schreiner, CA 51 K CAPETOWNPO 12 LG/11., CRONWRIGHT SCHREINER STANDARD BANK CLEMENTS LANE LN., OLIVE DIED PEAC...
- Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/1:Somerset East , Sunday , Dear Mrs Murray, I got here yesterday morning. Had a most kind welcome from Minnie de Villiers sweet...
- Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/42:Dear Mrs Murray, I had a bad attack of angina to-day & was so prostrate I could do nothing. And Mr Schreiner is gone upco...
- Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/45:No I shall not be going to Bloemfontein. I had meant to leave for Cape Town next week as the heat is getting very great here;...
- Olive Schreiner: S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner SMD 30/33/i(ii):Durrants Hotel, Manchester Square, W., Wednesday Monday, My Pal,, Terrible raining, dark weather. Wet fog for five days; gas ...
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- Life/4:During the last six weeks I have been very unhappy, not knowing whether to answer your letters on political matters or not. W...
- Life/5:[page/s missing] I would not reply to your letter were it not that it has made me feel I may have been unjust to [word missin...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/2:…My Cron, Won’t you please go this afternoon, my Sweet? It will comfort me so, your Olive. Do Chummie... ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/90:…Ettie writes me that mother is very sinking & weak. Every note the little mother writes is about you coming & ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/126:…I have got your wire from Hanover saying you are there... I wonder what you get to eat & how it goes with my Cron ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/344:…My girl Lena is really splendid…. , 8.30pm. My god, Cron, I nearly got my wish! & “was looking out of ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/367:…How has my poor night traveller got to De Aar?... I hope you got a bit of rest before work. My own Cron, I love you…...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/430:…I do want to see the lines go out of my young man’s face - always so beautiful to me. Old or lined or not. Take ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/443:…I wish you were in the train too. There’s no fun without old man Cron… ,
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/506:…We saw the Falls yesterday. I walked all through the Rain Forest & past the Danger Point. Oh Cron, no words can de...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/516:…It is funny why I have always to be out of everything. The day will never come when I can be in the stream. Something ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/517:…Thursday, My Cron, I have your long letter. I got it two days ago. When I got your letter & read the first page &...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/519:…I have been reading The Way of All Flesh by Butler. I think the man Ernest is almost too weak & disgusting to be r...
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- Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.8:[page/s missing], could have pained her, I might think it was that, but it can't be. Perhaps she is pained by my objecting to...
- Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.12:July 31st 1910, My darling Anna, I am so glad to hear your beautiful, beautiful news. I hope the beloved little one when it c...
- Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.13:Anna darling, I am sending you a little pamphlet Mrs Rhys David, a friend of mine has sent me as I know you are interested in...
- Anna Purcell MSB 386/1.15:Darling Anna , I am enclosing a little poem to you. Its the only really good thing I've seen written since upon the war. It s...
- Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.1:[page/s missing], 2, in I find him pocking about the room with a candle; I asked him what he was looking for. He said he was ...
- Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.2:Thursday night , My darling Anna, Did you feel how I was loving you as I sat behind you at the meeting. I could have kissed y...
- Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.4:De Aar, Nov 16th 1913, My darling Anna, I shall arrive in Cape Town on the evening of Friday the 21st if I am able to get my ...
- Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.5:Dear Anna, Will you please send the enclosed to Cron. They are beginning to have Martial Law here, & often letters &c...
- Olive Schreiner: Anna Purcell MSC 26/2.9.7:Nov 20th 1919, My darling darling Anna, Cron has just sent me your two letters to him. Oh if I could be with you, dear, that'...
- Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.2:c/o Dr. Purcell, Muizenberg, Thursday, Dear Jessie,, I was too unwell to leave & have been staying here with my dear frie...
- Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.3:c/o Dr. Purcell, York House, Muizenberg, Xmas Day., Dear Jessie, It was a great disappointment to me to hear from Anna Purcel...
- Olive Schreiner: Jessie Rose Innes MSC 26/2.6.9:9 Porchester Place , Edgware Rd., April 26th 1920, Dear Jessie,, I was so glad to get a letter from Dorothy yesterday, & ...
- Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.7:Wagenaar's Kraal, Three Sisters, Mar April 5th 1900, Dear Mrs Brown,, I got a paper from Cron last week with the Padiham post...
- Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.10:My darling Friend, Thank you for the papers. Of course I don't want their sentence shortened, they are a disgrace to all Sout...
- Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.13:Sunday morning, Feb 22 / 03, Dear Friend, I am thinking much of you. Have you settled for good at 20 ?Warrender Park Crescent...
- Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.14:Hanover, Oct 14 / 03, My very dear Friends,, I wonder if you have gone abroad to Italy now. I wonder how you are I want so to...
- Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.16:Hotel "De Aar", De Aar, Sep 14th 1906, C.C., Dear Friend, Thank you for your letter., I've written to Merriman & Will abo...
- Olive Schreiner: John & Mary Brown MSC 26/2.2.17:De Aar, Oct 15 / 07, My darling Friend, Thank you for your letter. I am glad of its news., Its my favourite old spot up there...
- Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.30:My dear old Sissie, , I value your gift to me so much it is so useful. Cron sends his love to you & all the girls. We ar...
- Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.31:My dear Hudson , I was very glad to have that little peep at you & Fred. Dear old Fred I knew before, but you are a new p...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.67:Darling, Thanks so much for the ?drapers. ?There's very nice. I enclose the cheque., Thanks my darling so much for the chair....
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.69:My darling Mary,, It's beautiful to think you will so soon be here. You will hear when you arrive that I was married on the 2...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.70:Beach Hotel , East London , March 13 / 94, My darling Mary,, It's beautiful to think you are back in old Africa again. I hope...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.72:Krantz Plaats , P.O. Halesowen, April 12 / 94, My darling I am longing to see you Some day you must come here. I know a littl...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.73:My darling, I understand so perfectly what you mean. It's just because one wants to be so absolutely one with another humanbe...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.75:The Homestead , Kimberley, Monday, Thanks so, dear. I've got a girl who comes in the morning for a couple of hours a day, &...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.76:Friday, Darling, I'm always thinking of you though I don't write. I wish you could have come up. I long very much to see you,...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.78:The Homestead , Kimberley , Sep Oct 5 / 94, Dear one, Did Mrs Salt send you Carpenter's new pamphlet on "Marriage"? If she di...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.80:My darling Mary, Thank you for your note. Things are going allright with us: but I shall be very glad of those books of Mrs G...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.81:The Homestead, Jan 2 / 94 , A Happy New Year to you, dear. I hope I shall see you before it is out. Thank you for sending the...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.82:Sunday morning, Darling Mary, Thermom. 106 in the shades, one's nearly melted & can't write, especially when one isn't so...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.84:The Homestead, Feb 2 / 95, Darling Mary, I am still worrying about that Dr Watkins matter; better not mention me at all &...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.85:Thursday, My sweet old Mary, I send you a photograph of myself. I will send you one soon of Cron & myself sat taken toget...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.86:Thank you, my darling, for your sweet gift which came today. One of your little dresses I will put out in the basket to be th...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.87:The Homestead , March 15 / 95., Darling Mary, I am so disappointed Cron saw so little of you, & was not able to go up the...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.88:The Homestead, Mar April 1st 1895, Darling Mary, Thankyou for your sweet remembrance of my birthday., I was so disappointed n...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.89:The Homestead, April 17 / 95, Dear Mary, I am still all right. On Sunday night as I was driving my little servant girl home f...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.90:The Homestead, May 10th 1895, My darling Mary , Your sweet letter came to me yesterday. My dear one, I am so worn in mind &...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.91:May 28 / 95, My darling Mary , I am getting on all right & hope next week to be back at my work. That's all I want I don'...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.92:The Homestead , June 3rd 1895, My darling Mary, Thankyou so much for your letter., Do you know I was starting off with Cron t...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.94:Saturday, My dear Mary, I was so disappointed that you didn't come yesterday afternoon. I expected you even in the morning as...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.95:The Homestead, Kimberley, July 1st 1895., Dear sweet old Mary, We got back at midday today, & I am glad to be here again,...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.96:Monday morning , Darling Mary , I send you a copy of the paper on the political situation: tell me freely what you think of i...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.97:Oct 14 / 95, Thankyou so much for your letter. I began really to feel anxious that I had no news of you., All's going very we...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.99:Middelburg, Ja Feb 6 / 96, Darling Mary , I don't know why I've been thinking so much of you the last days. Last night in the...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.100:The Homestead, Mar April 2 / 96, Thursday night nine o'clock , Darling , Your letter came late this evening, & at first I...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.103:Yes, darling, I am very sorry for Mr Sauer. He is being deserted by the men whose cause he fought & who should have stood...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.106:Strictly Private. Is your arm quite strong? , My darling Mary , No, there has been nothing wrong with my womb, I am sure! Eac...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.108:19 Russell Rd , Kensington , Feb 11 / 97, Dear Mary, It was such a disappointment to me that you were gone when I came; we mu...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.109:Grand Hotel , Alassio, Riviera, Italy, April 3rd 1897, Darling Mary , I was so glad to get your letter. It was a misfortune t...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.111:Hope Town, Sep 28 / 97, My sweet old Mary, I have only just received from London the letter you wrote me when I was there. I ...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.114:Darling Mary , It was so sweet to see your face; you are much more beautiful than you've ever been before. I wish I had a pho...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.115:The Homestead , Dec 3 / 97, Darling Mary, I couldn't get out to see you again. I was so sorry Cron couldn't see you when he c...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.120:July 3rd 1898, My darling Mary, I would indeed be lovely if you could all come up. Can't you manage it. The weather is still ...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.121:The Homestead , Aug 22nd 1898, Dear Mary, It's just possible I may be coming down in Cape Town soon, as the doctor has ordere...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.122:Primrose Terrace, Berea Estate , Johannesburg, Feb 15 / 99, Oh is it true Mary dear, that you are coming to Johannesburg next...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.125:Saturday, Dear Mary, I will come down on the train that leaves Beaufort on Tuesday Wednesday afternoon if I possibly can, am ...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.128:Hanover, Oct 20 / 02, Dear Mary, I've put off my going till Tuesday the 27th & shall arrive by the mail train on Wednesda...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.129:Hanover, Jan 31st 1903, Dear Mary, Thank you so much for the book. I would like to keep it till mine comes. Can I, or are you...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.130:Monday, May 17 / 03 , Darling Mary, Did you ever get the "Hearts of Men"? Cron is very ill, I have to feed & dress & ...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.131:c/o Mrs Kriel, Beaufort West, May 27 / 03, Dear Mary, Thankyou for your sweet letter. I am staying on here, & Cron went o...
- Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.4:De Aar, July 16th 1912, Ruth, dear, it seems so long since I heard how the world was going with you., Does the son flourish?, ...
- W.P. Schreiner MSC 27/287:Wagenaars Kraal , Three Sisters , March 26 / 00, Dear Laddy, Thank you for your note, received just now, & the letter of ...
- W.P. Schreiner MSC 27/564:"Leeuwendal", off De Lorenz St , Cape Town, Dear Will, Could you see that the old man at the door of the Parliament House has...
- W.P. Schreiner MSC 27/1350:De Aar, Oct 18th 1908, Dear Laddie, Thanks for your lines., I am a good bit distressed to hear from Miss Colenso that it appe...
- E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/6:Dear Emma, Thank you so much for all the trouble you took getting me the rug. I like it very much. You lay yourself open to p...
- E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/7:The Homestead, Dec 2nd 1897, Dear Charley, Only this morning has your wire & the sad news in the papers reached us. It se...
- Olive Schreiner: Miscellaneous: Dr Wilson MSB 834/1.4.5:Dear Mrs Wilson, How sweet of you to send me those lovely vegetables. Mr Schreiner is coming this afternoon & I’ve ...
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- Edward Carpenter 359/60:Dear Old Ned, I’m coming home in April next. It will be beautiful to see you all. Old Bob & George & all of you...
- Edward Carpenter 359/66:Middelburg , Nov 9 / 93 , My dear old Ed , I want so to write to you tonight though I have not much to say that is interestin...
- Edward Carpenter 359/67:Railway Hotel, Grahamstown, South Africa, Dec 4 / 93 , Dear old E. C. , I got your note yesterday. It was good to hear all we...
- Edward Carpenter 359/68:Middelburg , New Years Day, A good new year to you all at Millthorpe. I was so glad to get your note E.C., Tell Harry he must...
- Edward Carpenter 359/69:Taungs, Bechuanaland, Jan 19 / 93 , Dear Ed, I’m here nearly halfway up to the Zambezi. My sister is going up with her ...
- Edward Carpenter 359/70:Address C/O S.C. Cronwright, P.O. Halesowen, Cape Colony, South Africa , Dear Ed, , You see you will have a little band of l...
- Edward Carpenter 359/71:Dear E.C., I was married last Saturday. I am turning into an old farmers wife. I got your sex pamphlet: it’s splendid. ...
- Edward Carpenter 359/72:Krantz Plaats , May 17 / 94 , Dear E.C., Thanks for letter, would much like to help forward any movement for the dropping of ...
- Edward Carpenter 359/73:The Homestead, Kimberley, South Africa , Oct 8 / 94 , Dear old E. C. , The marriage pamphlet has come. I think it splendid! Y...
- Edward Carpenter 359/74:The Homestead, July 27 / 95, Dear Edward , I am sending you Cron’s little paper. It was very amusing when Cron read it....
- Edward Carpenter 359/76:19 Russell Rd, Kensington, Jan 30th 1897, My dear old Brother , I asked Alice to write the day I came & tell you how much...
- Edward Carpenter 359/78:The Grand Hotel , Alassio, Riviera, Italy, April 3 / 97 , Dear old Ed, It was a good thing seeing your face in London. We’...
- Edward Carpenter 359/80:The Homestead, Kimberley , Dec 14 / 97, Dear old Ed, I am sending you a paper concerning our last fight with Rhodes & the...
- Edward Carpenter 359/81:The Homestead, Jan 18 / 98 , Dear EC, , I’m not at all surprised that George & Lucy & the young ones are going...
- Edward Carpenter 359/82:Box 2, Johannesburg, Trans Vaal, South Africa, Nov 13th 1898 , Dear E.C. , I don’t know what makes me suddenly want to ...
- Edward Carpenter 359/84:July 26th , Dear Ed, Thanks for 12 copies of Towards Dem Englands Ideal. They will be very useful for me to give out in this ...
- Edward Carpenter 359/85:Hanover , May 25th 1902 , Dear EC , I wonder how the world goes with you & if you have been up to Glasgow & stayed w...
- Edward Carpenter 359/86:Hanover, Jan 5 / 03 , Dear old Ed,, A good new year to you all, especially Mat & his wife. Cron is going down to Cape Tow...
- Edward Carpenter 359/87:Hanover, Feb 27 / 05, Dear Ed , The more I read your book the more I like it; that’s one thing I have to say. Another i...
- Edward Carpenter 359/89:Hanover, Aug 10th 1905 , Dear Ed , I got a letter the other day from a Miss Darby; who says she is a friend of yours. So many...
- Edward Carpenter 359/92:Hanover , Feb 9th 1907 , Dear old Ed’ard , I send you a bit of a letter I’ve just got from a very dear & rema...
- Edward Carpenter 359/93:Hanover, April 24th 1907 , Dear Edward, , My thought seem always turning to you now-a-days, or rather, you always seem to be...
- Edward Carpenter 359/96:De Aar , April 3rd 1911 , My dear E.C. , I am sending you a copy of my Woman & Labour. You will see its only a fragment. ...
- Edward Carpenter 359/98:De Aar, June 17th 1912, Dear Edward , Thank you much for your book. I would have written sooner but I’ve been through a...
- Edward Carpenter 359/102:Dear Edward , Cron send me a letter - he did not ask me to send it on to you, he only said in the P.S. you can send this on t...
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- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/28:Krantz Plaatz, Feb. 27. 1894, My own little Mother. I’ve not had time before to tell you about our quiet little wedding...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/29:Darling Effie, This was a poem that someone made for Uncle Cron on his wedding day. I was so glad of your letter darling. Do ...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/31:Amalfi, March 18 / 97, My darling old sis, I’ve had asthma ever since I got to England, & its worse since we came o...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/32:The Homestead, Jan 16 / 98, My darling, It was such a joy to see you though just for a minute, but you looked so utterly tire...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/33:My own old Ettie, You are always in my thoughts. I was so glad to get Etta Leuw’s reply address to my wire. I feel so a...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/34:My darling Ettie, Your letter & mine have crossed. Ah, yes, my dear one, I know that awful worry when one is gone, the th...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/35:June 26th 1898, Darling, I am, in a way, glad you are going to Robertson for a little while. I know so well that longing to b...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/40:Hanover, Sunday morning, My darling, I hardly know whether I am sorry about your accident because I believe that some such th...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/44:Hanover, Friday, Darling Effie , I know mother is much to busy to write so drop me a line to tell me how Granny is. Did you a...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/45:Hanover, Sunday night, Sep 1st 1901, My darling old sister, I have had no news from Grahamstown since the note I got from you...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/49:Xmas Morning., My darling old sister,, I hope you are feeling really better. It is so delightful to me that the dear little m...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/51:Private for yourself alone, Hanover, Sep 15th 1902, My darling old Ettie, Oh I have thought of you & hungered for you dur...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/52:Hanover, Sep 30 / 02, My own darling little Mother, We are in our nice little house. C It is evening, about 9 o’clock. ...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/57:Hanover, March 10 / 03, My darling old Sister, I am feeling a little anxious about your knee. Is it quite well. Don’t t...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/58:Hanover, May 17th 1903, My darling Mothie, I have returned pretty tired from Grahamstown. I was there six days. I saw dear No...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/63:Hanover, Friday, My darling Ettie, I sent you a wire this morning telling you I had had no news from you or Will or any one i...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/65:Thursday night, My darling Ettie,, Thank you for your letter. I haven’t written before because my heart seems to get so...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/68:Hanover, Oct 18 / 03, My darling, I can’t come just now. I will try to come a few weeks later. When does Effie expect h...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/70:Thursday night, My darling, I got back here today, an hour or two ago. One has to have been away to know how fearful this hot...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/71:Nov 12 / 03, My darling, I am so sorry about the sweet old eyes. You know when I was in Town I didn’t like the look of ...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/75:Hanover, Feb 1904, Dear Arthur, The things are splendid in quality especially the cheese. I wished I had got 4 lb instead of ...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/76:Hanover, Feb 27 / 04, My darling, I got your letter the books & then parcel just after I had posted my note to you, I am ...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/79:Hanover, June 22nd 1904, Darling Sister , Let me know exactly what your plans are. I will try & go with you any time if t...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/80:Hanover, July 1st 1904, Darling Effie, I feel so anxious about Guy from Aunt Het’s letter got today. Do drop me a line ...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/95:My own Ellie, It was strange I got your letter this morning: last night as I was walking up & down the room I kept thinki...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/101:Thursday night, My darling, I thought you looking so ill yesterday when I first came. You really must have rest. I know when ...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/108:De Aar, July 21st 1909, My darling Ettie, I hope you are getting on well with your work. I told Dr ?Simmington when he & ...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/120:My darling, Thank you so much for your letter. It would be splendid if I could go to Blamb Blauwberg for the summer, for I ha...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/125:Thursday night, Darling, I haven’t written because every day I’ve been hoping I would be able to walk up to the H...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/131:My Ettie,, I am always with you though my body is here. I enclose you a little message from Cron. If I could only bring a lit...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/133:Tuesday morning, My own sweet Darling, Never for one moment are you out of my thoughts. Not only you suffering there, but my ...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/137:De Aar, Sunday, My darling, Just after I wrote I got a long letter from Will telling me about you. He thinks the ?drawing roo...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/147:Sunday morning, My own darling, Oh if the doctors medicines have given you a little ease! If Your sufferings are too awful yo...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/152:De Aar, Sunday, My darling, I am longing so for news of you, to hear how the oysters suited you, & to hear how the firepl...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/169:Dec 21st 1918, (I can’t be a merry Xmas to any of us), Wynnie, This is an awful blow that has fallen on you, my dear, d...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/176:I wonder if you have seen Uncle Cron, dear. He writes me now he is not leaving till the middle of June. I’ve not seen O...
- Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/188:Dear Wynnie, I am very ill. I think I shall soon die. I am still able to walk about, I never can lie down. When I am really h...
- W.P. Schreiner BC112/B31/2:Dear Friend,, I enclose you a note just got from my nephew. State Secretary Reitz wrote in the very hopefully two days ago. ...
- W.P. Schreiner BC112/B31/13:Box 24, de Aar, Dec 4th 1907, How are you all getting on, darling? We are flourishing here because we had half an inch of rai...
- W.P. Schreiner BC112/B31/15:Friday , Dear old Sister, Thankyou so much for going to that hotel for me. I think I shall be leaving this for Cape Town on t...
- W.P. Schreiner BC112/B31/16:De Aar, Aug 3rd 1913, Dear Fan, Thanks very much for the lovely eggs. I’ve just had one beaten up. They came perfectly:...
- W.P. Schreiner BC112/B31/19:Dear Old Sister, I thought you wh might like to see what Alice says about our little maiden. , How one longs to see her. It m...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1893/5:Friday, Dear Laddie, I’m much better. It seems too good to be true that perhaps I shall see you here. If I could go on ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1893/7:My dear Boy, We would come out but it will quite break your nights rest, & the journey is tiring enough any how. I have a...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1894/2:Middelburg , Feb 20 / 94, My dear old Man, Thank you, I have your letter, & Fred’s cheque. I shall return the £...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1894/3:Middelburg, Feb 20 / 94, Dearest Friend, Have you heard that I am to be married next Saturday morning to Mr Cronwright., Our ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1894/5:Krantz Platz, P.O. Halesowen, Feb 28 / 94, Dear Jessie, I was so glad to get your letter. Your letters always seem to come st...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1894/6:April 11 / 94, My old Will, I wish I knew the drift of things in Cape Town & how all went with you., I got a very curious...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1894/7:My darling Master Will, I’ve just remembered it was your birthday this week. I send you a card. , I bath here in the gr...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1894/8:Krantz Plaats, PO Halesowen, April 26 / 94, My dear Laddie, Thou art ever in the thoughts of this person. It’s the one ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1894/9:So glad Cron saw you. Says he spend delightful evening with you. So sorry we shall be gone when you pass. I had dreamed of yo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1894/10:The Homestead, Kimberley, Oct 11 / 94, Dear Fan, Thankyou for your letter. I’m so sorry the little woman has had such a...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1894/12:The Homestead , Nr Kimberley, Nov 29 / 94, Thank you so much for your letter. I’ll tell Mrs Cawood to whom I’ve l...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1895/1:The Homestead , April 1920 / 95, Dear Laddie, I am specially anxious that a letter should reach Seymour Fort the day he arriv...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1895/2:My old Will, Thank you for your letter. It was a help to me. Thank my dear old sister Fan for being willing to come to me., C...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1895/3:The Homestead, Ap May 16 / 95, My darling old Ettie,, I am sending you three pictures of my little one. When you have looked ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1895/5:The Homestead, May June the 3rd, Dear Jessie, Cron & I were starting this evening for Cape Town have all our things packe...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1895/6:Tweedside Lodge, Matjesfontein, Saturday, Dear Fan, We got here at 12 last night. We enjoyed your sandwiches very much as we ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1895/7:Matjesfontein, Monday night, Dear Laddie, It’s been a bitter disappointment to me not be with you all even for the one ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1895/9:Private, Kimberley , Aug 13 / 95, Dear dear old Laddie, I have been wanting to write you a long letter, but just because ther...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1895/10:The Homestead , Sunday afternoon, My dear old Laddie, I don’t forget Friday will be your birthday. I send this word of ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/1:Thomson’s Hotel, Middelburg , Friday , Dear Friend, We are settled here for a month at least I’m so much better, ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/2:Port Alfred, Jan 5 / 95, Dear Fan, I don’t like to trouble Will just now as I know how busy he must be: could you drop ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/3:Middelburg, Jan 13 / 96, Dear Laddy, I was very glad to receive your letter in the Argus – a paper I never see. If you ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/4:Middelburg, Jan 16 / 95, I got your letter today, dear, & was so glad of its news. No progressive party has been possible...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/6:Middelburg, Jan 20 / 95, My dear Laddie, I have been laid up for some days, with immensely bad cough or would have written., ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/8:Middelburg, Thursday, Feb 6 / 96, Dear Fan, I was so glad to get your letter. I would have answered it at once but I have not...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/10:The Homestead , April 2nd 1896, It’s such a funny thing, that Cron & I have been talking & thinking of you so m...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/13:April 22 / 96, Dear Laddie, I am just sick with fear at what mother & Lilly will say both of & to me when they read m...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/14:Friday morning , Thank you for your letter. Oh yes, I am very regular with the meals, & cook very well!!!! Dr To day we a...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/15:Dear Friend, Thankyou for your letter., I went to Miss Brigh Reed’s & to all the boarding houses I know, but they e...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/17:The Homestead, June 29 / 98 , Dear Fan, I’m very glad to hear you’ve made such a good arrangement about the chil...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/18:July 2nd 1896, Dear Jessie, I have just heard in a most round about way through a friend of Cron’s in Johannesburg that...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/19:The Homestead, July 8 / 96, Private, Dear Friend, I want to ask you a question: you must not answer me if you don’t lik...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/20:Dear Jessy, I hope you had a real good time in Pretoria. I’m wishing I could see you; I don’t like letter writing...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/21:Dear Friend Am not thinking of coming down for the show now. Cron returned yesterday from Cradock where he had been for ten d...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/22:Wednesday – 5th 1896, My dear Friend, Thank you much for your letter. I have not written because I’ve been ill. W...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/24:Coles Hotel, The Kowie, Wednesday, Dear Friend,, I’ve just got your note. We have had a most splendid ten days we here....
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/26:Friday, Dear old Lad,, Dear old lad I am quite just to Rhodes. I have a higher idea of his ability complexity than even you h...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/28:The Homestead, Thursday, Dear Friend,, I am so distressed about Miss Knight. I have not her address, it was on the letter I s...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/29:Wednesday, Thankyou so much for your letter. It is such a relief for to me to know you have Miss Knight’s address, beca...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/30:The Homestead, Sunday, Dear Friend, Thank you for your letter. No I don’t & have never thought the married woman’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/32:The Homestead , Sep 20 / 96, Oct 21st 1896, Dear Friend, I’m just writing a line to tell you I’m getting stronger...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/33:Dear Fan, I’m not sure whether you owe me a letter or you owe me one., All is going well with us Cron arm is getting qu...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/34:The Homestead , Dec 1st 1896, Dear Jessie, How do you get off your bike?? That’s the great question in life to me now. ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/35:Thursday , I wish I knew more what the trouble about the school was. I shall hear fo about it in Cape Town when we meet. You ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/36:[page/s missing], to go by that vessel, we are not responsible. It will of course be very unpleasant for us. Rhodes & his...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/37:The Homestead , Dec 18 / 96, Dear Fan, We shall arrive in town on Saturday night, the 2nd & shall sail on Saturday the We...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/38:[page/s missing], is glad to know you really are going with us. Try & get one of those four cabins near the Captains for ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/3:New College Junior School,, Eastbourne., Feb 4 / 97, Dear Jessee, We have been spending a few days here with my brother &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/4:Post Restante, Rome, March 9 / 97, Dear Laddie, I have just this moment got Fred’s letter to say you had landed in Engl...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/5:Address: Poste Restante, Amalfi, ------------------------------, Rome, March 15 / 97, Dear Laddie, Ellis was in town staying ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/10:Grand Hotel, Alassio, Riviera , Italy, April 30 / 97, Dear old Laddie, I’m so glad to see Innes Sauer Merriman &c s...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/11:Grand Hotel, Alassio, Italy, May 1st 1897, Dear Friend, I was so disappointed to hear you & Miss Green had not been havin...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/12:7 rue Lemaitre, Puteaux , Paris, May 14 / 97, Dear old Fan, I have not written to you for a very long time but I’ve bee...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/13:Monday morning, Dear Friend, I enclose you that amusing letter from the clergyman. It’s was so good to see you. Cron &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/14:61 Chester Square, S.W. , 22 June 1897, Dear Miss Molteno,, Olive sends her love, and asks me to say she would be so glad if ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/16:Eastbourne, Aug 7 / 97, Dear old Will, I was glad of your letter. You must need rest dear, the difficulty is to get it any wh...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/17:Matjesfontein, Saturday, Dear Friend, We got here last night, I are resting on our way to Kimberly, from here we are going on...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/18:The Homestead, Oct 5 / 97, Dear Friend, We have been back here for a week now. I wonder where you are going for this short Ho...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/19:The Homestead, Kimberley , Oct 14 / 97, Dear Fan, If they haven’t yet send for the typewriter (as they ought to have do...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/20:The Homestead, Oct Nov 2 / 97 , Dear Laddy, I’m so glad you wrote as you did to Cron about his standing for Queen’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/21:The Homestead, Nov 12 / 97, I enclose for you & Miss Greene rather a good leader on the vote question from the Kimberly A...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/22:Nov 17th 1897, Dear Laddie, I am feeling very played out & ill so that I hardly know how I shall write this letter to you...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/23:[page/s missing], Mr Cornwall, who is really only Mr Rhodes instrument is taking legal action against Cron for what he said, ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/24:Dear Fan,, I hope all goes well with you all & that you’ve had no falls from the bike, like Mr Will. , It’s t...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/25:Thurs-day, Dearest Friend, I have just got your letter. I can’t tell you how great a joy & comfort your sympathy is...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/26:The Homestead , Dec 26 / 97, Dear Fan, Please let me know how Nell gets on. We had a very cool Xmas day here, the coolest I’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/1:The Homestead, March 1st 1898, Dear Friend, The picture has just come. I do like it so. I’m going to hang it up in my s...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/2:The Homestead , March 16 / 98, My dear Friend, I’m so sorry you are not coming now. I always need you. Cron only told m...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/6:Dear Friend, Your wire adds to my disappointment. I did, & do long so for the Kowie, & the big waves, & the sand....
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/7:The Homestead, May 8 / 98, Dear Fan, When are you & Ollie coming up? I hope you don’t forget your plan. Cron’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/8:May 17 / 98, You will be wondering, dear friend, why I have not written before, but Cron’s dear old mother has been spe...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/9:May 26th 1898, Dear Laddie, I wrote you a letter just after I returned from Johannesburg telling you how much I liked old Hud...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/10:The Homestead, June 12th 1898, Dear Laddie, I am full of anxiety as to how things will go next Tuesday. I fear me there is bu...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/12:I am so afraid that even if the vote of no confidence is carried those evil serpents will manage to keep in. No sense of sham...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/13:The Homestead, June 29th 1898, Dear Laddie, I posted a line to you this morning & got yours just after I posted mine., Wi...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/14:Dear Fan , I wish I was down in Cape Town now that I might see the fight! , I hope you like your new house. I fancy its neare...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/15:The Homestead, Aug 12th 1898, Dear Laddie, I shall think of you on the 13th, but I feel no anxiety. I am sure you come in wit...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/16:The Homestead , Aug 13th 1898, Dear Fan, Thanks for thy letter. I hope you are all keeping fit, & trying no more nice com...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/18:My dear Friend, I am very ill, I seem to have no life left & can do nothing. The doctor says is only my heart; but I beli...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/19:Dear Friend, Thanks so much for your wire. Cron can’t leave till the 2nd he says, & I don’t like him to be he...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/20:Monday morning, Dear Sis, Thank you much for your letter. I am going to Port Elizabeth first, to stay with Miss Molteno. If I...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/21:The Homestead , Aug 28th 1898, Dear Friend, I would have left this morning, but did not feel well enough. Now Cron thinks he ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/22:Dear Friend, I saw Dick Solomon last night, & he tells me your brother has failed in Tembu-land. It was a terrible blow t...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/24:Wednesday morning , Dear Friend, Have been up with bad asthma all night. If I’m so bad at Zuurberg shall have to leave ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/25:The Homestead, Wednesday , Dear Friend, I got much worse on the way up & at Cawoods began spitting blood, so I came stra ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/26:The Homestead, Friday, Dear Friend, I was up all night but feel wonderfully better this morning. Quite like writing a book!!, ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/27:The Homestead, Sep 22nd 1898, Dear Friend, No, you must not come up to Kimberley unless I am better. It only depresses one &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/28:The Homestead, Sep 23rd 1898, Dear Fan, I’m so glad to see from Will’s note to Cron that you are a bit better aga...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/29:The Homestead, Kimberley, 26 Sept. 1898, My dear Friend, I should have replied to your two kind notes to me but that Olive ha...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/30:Wednesday , My dear Friends, Cron promised me he would write & tell you I was leaving for Johannesburg on Friday next. On...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/31:Parrys, c/o Mrs Po, 67 Esselin St, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg , Sunday , Dear Friend, I got here this morning & am alrea...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/32:67 Esselin St, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg, Oct 4th 1898., My dear Friend,, Yours letters sent to the care of Mr Lloyd have r...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/33:Address c/o Rev Lloyd , 10 Pietersen St, Johannesburg , Oct 11th 1898, Dear Friend, I hope you went back refreshed & stre...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/34:Box 2 Johannesburg, Dear Friend,, Yes isn’t the news comforting. It seems to ease even physical pain. I know my dear La...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/35:I am hoping Cron will come up on Sunday. It will be very good., Thanks for your letter. I am anxious for the knowledge we sha...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/36:Address Box 2, Johannesburg, Dear Friends, Cron arrives tomorrow. He is going to try & enter a solicitor’s office, ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/38:Dounan’s House, Hospital Hill, Nov 1st 1898, So glad of your letter. Am full of plans for you & Miss Greene coming ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/39:Dounan’s House, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg , Nov 5th 1898, Dear Fan, I went down today to Maggie Coopers & saw her...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/40:Dear Friend, You’ll never guess where I am? Sitting on the verandah of the little house on the top of the krantz, while...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/41:Dounan’s House, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg, Nov 10th 1898, Dear Friend, I am sending you a note from John X (private, ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/42:Dounan’s House, Hospital Hill, Nov 12 / 98, Dear Friend, Cron has returned from seeing the lawyers. It seems he can’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/43:Dounan’s House, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg, Nov 13 / 98, Dear Laddie, I have just got a letter from J.X. which he says...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/44:Dounan’s House, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg , Nov 13 / 98, Dear Jessie, I have been up here about six weeks, & have...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/47:Sunday, Dear Friend, It was very good news about Miss Green nourishing herself up a little & finding benefit from a more ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold5/1898/48:Box 2 Johannesburg, Tuesday, Dearest Friend, For the first time for weeks I really seem to have a few moments to sit down &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold1/Jan-June1899/1:Dear Laddie, I wrote you a long letter of six sheets yesterday but have just torn it up. The weight of each man’s life ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold1/Jan-June1899/5:Primrose Terrace, Berea Estate, Johannesburg , Feb 15th 1899, My dear old Sister, I’ve been thinking so much of you the...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold1/Jan-June1899/8:2 Primrose Terrace, Berea Estate, Johannesburg, March 8 / 99, Dear Laddie, I have your wire; the long letter I want to write ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold1/Jan-June1899/10:Good Friday, My dear Laddie, Thanks for your letter. Of course I knew you would be delighted to help the little mother, &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold1/Jan-June1899/11:Isn’t it splendid about the Stellenbosch election? I have so much I would like to say about so many things, but I don’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold1/Jan-June1899/13:Wednesday, Address Olive Schreiner Primrose Terrace, Next door to Pullingers, Berea, My own dear Friend, Please address , Oli...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold1/Jan-June1899/14:2 Primrose Terrace, Berea Estate, Dear Friend, Your letter made me very glad. Cron said when I told him you were perhaps comi...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold1/Jan-June1899/15:2 Primrose Terrace, Berea Estate, April 19th, Dear Friend, We are filled with delight at the news received this morning of yo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold1/Jan-June1899/16:2 Primrose Terrace, Berea Estate, Johannesburg, April 20th 1899, Dear Will, Your letter which reached me this afternoon cause...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold1/Jan-June1899/17:2 Primrose Terrace , Berea Estate, Johannesburg , April 24th 1899, My dear Friend, I was so glad to get your letter. I hope y...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold1/Jan-June1899/18:Dear Laddie, Yesterday we had a man to lunch with us Collins, Reuter’s General Manager in Australia. He is a man of con...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold1/Jan-June1899/19:Dearest Friend, I was so glad to see your handwriting again. Things are going rather badly again, the league making the most ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold1/Jan-June1899/20:Dear Friend, We are passing through strange & troublous times. I am trying to get an article on the political situation f...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold1/Jan-June1899/22:May 20 / 99, Dear Friend, By the end of this week I hope to send you my article on the war question. Can you understand with ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold1/Jan-June1899/27:2 Primrose Terrace, Berea Estate, Johannesburg, June 2nd 1899, Dear Laddie, Your wire was one of the most valued of the thing...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold1/Jan-June1899/29:Dear Friends, Do come out this morning it’s so lovely here, today much nicer than yesterday. If you get cab no 15 he wi...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/3:The City of Dreadful Night, Thursday morning, My dear Friends, I was so anxious all night about Miss Greene though I couldn’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/5:Thurs-day night , Dear Friends, I have just heard that J.H. Hofmeyr is coming over tomorrow at ten o’clock. I am going ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/6:Tuesday, Thank you, dear Friends, for your letters. The excitement here grows higher & higher, but the real scene of the ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/8:Monday Afternoon, Dear Friend, I got both your letters this afternoon. There is no fresh news here today. Kolbe’s lett...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/10:Wednesday , There is no fresh news today. The war party here are quite mad with rage against my Brother & Hofmeyr. Cron s...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/17:Monday, Dear Friend, Thanks for your letter. If war comes I think it cannot break out for another 14 days till the troops fro...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/18:Aug 17th 1899, Thank you so much for your letters, dear Friend. I wonder if Miss Molteno has left for Cape Town. I am going t...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/19:Dear Heart, I had a mis-carriage yesterday (two months). Dr Mortimer has been very kind. We leave probably on Saturday for th...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/20:Dear Will, Thanks for your letter. Things look dark here but I am quite in the dark as to the real movement of the moment. Th...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/21:Saturday , Dear Friend, We are just leaving. Thank you for your wires. I don’t think or feel any more I suppose I shall...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/23:Karree Kloof, Via Kran Kuil, Aug 31st 1899., Dear Laddie, I’ve just got your note enclosing Loch’s. I returned Bu...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/24:Aug 31st , Dear Friend, We seem to be living in heaven here. The only shadow on our happiness is that we shall have to go awa...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/27:Sep 12th 1899, Did you see that the Standard & Diggers News of the 4th of Aug took over the whole of your letter about Bu...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/28:Karree Kloof, Kran Kuil, Sep 14 / 99, Dear Laddie, I enclose a letter I have just got from Hobson the Manchester Guardian Rep...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/32:Karee Kloof, Sunday, Sep 24th 1899, Dear Laddy, Your two notes of the 20th & 18th enclosing the cable are to hand. Always...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/33:Tuesday Sep 26 / 99, Dear Will, We are anxiously waiting for news by today’s post. This must be sent before it arrives....
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/34:Karree Kloof, Via Kran Kuil, Sep 28 / 99, Dear Friend, I hope you are better again. I have sent a copy of your article letter...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold2/July-Dec1899/35:Karree Kloof, October 3rd , Dear Fan, Thank you for your so soon sending the paper which I got by this post., I’m so so...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/1:Dear Friend , I send you a lovely poem of dear old Jackson Millers, sent me from America. Your letter astonished me, dear. Wh...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/2:Lyndall, Newlands, Wednesday , My darling old sister, Many happier returns of your wedding day. May this be the saddest you a...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/3:Dear Laddie, That old person has also written to me. He is certainly mad. Cron has never had a share in any company in his li...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/5:Dear Fan, I got a letter from Cron’s mother this morning I thought would have interested you, but I've mislaid it. She ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/6:Saturday , Dear old Fan,, I’ve been so unfit I haven’t been able to come & see you or write. I am better toda...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/8:My dear Friend, I send you a cheque for £50 which I’m sure you must be needing for the "news" & all sorts of t...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/12:Wagenaar’s Kraal , Feb 25 / 00, My dear Friend, I posted a note to you this morning, but am writing again to let you kn...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/15:Monday , Dear Friend, Did you get the two letters I sent by a Mr Murphy last week, enclosing a letter from Cron?, Private Pri...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/16:Wagenaar’s Kraal, March 5th 1900, Dear old Fan, I was so glad to get your letter this morning. I am working hard to get...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/19:Sunday , Dear Fan, I send you a bit of Cron’s last letter which will give you & Will his news. , Please give Cron’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/20:Wagenaar’s Kraal , Sunday afternoon, Dear Friend, I wonder how you found matters in Cape Town. I don’t suppose yo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/21:April 3rd 1900, Dear Friend, I was so glad to get your note. I have been laid up for a week or should have written sooner. I ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/22:Monday , Dear Fan , Thanks so much for your letter, & the two little dogs!!! I send you Cron’s last letter. He does...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/23:My dear Fan, I send you Cron’s letter; there’s not much of interest in it this week. One doesn’t feel able ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/24:Dear Fan, Please send the enclosed letter of Cron’s on to his mother (when you & Will have read it if you care to) ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/26:Apr May 1st 1900, Dear Fan, I am so sorry to hear you’ve been unwell, in these hard times if one runs down one doesn’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/27:May 1st 1900, I wonder if you are in Cape Town now, dear Friend. Things are looking dark enough. It seems we are going to loo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/28:Sunday morning, My dear Miss Greene, I wish I could meet you at Graaff Reinet; but I can’t. I don’t feel I can go...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/29:Dear Fan, Cron writes me he sent photographs of himself for me to your care the week before last. week Did you get them. Plea...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/31:Wagenaar’s Kraal., Wednesday, Dear Friends, I had to hire a cart at the station as there was none here to fetch me. I a...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/33:Private , Dear Fan,, I enclose part of Cron’s last letter. Please return it carefully when read as I want to keep it. I...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/34:Wagenaars Kraal, Three Sisters, June 17 / 00, Dear Friend, I have just got your letter, I am leaving for Beaufort West next T...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/36:Beaufort West , Friday morning, Darling Fan, I was so glad I stayed over that day & saw you & my Dot. I hope she is g...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/37:c/o Mrs Kriel, Registered letter, Beaufort West, July 17 / 00, Dear Friend, Thank you very much. I would like a room at the O...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/38:Saturday night, Dear Fan, Thankyou so much. I am still in doubt & uncertainty, & am so glad to hear of that room. Mis...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/39:Mrs Kriel, Beaufort West , July 17 / 00, Dear Hannie, I am most distressed because Cron is coming next week, & I can’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/40:R c/o Rev Peplar, Leeuwendal , off wordspace St, Kloo Cape Town, Saturday morning, Dear Friend, I have got a beautiful room ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/41:"Leewendal," , off De Lorentz St,, Cape Town, July, Dear Fan, Do come up & see me again if you come up here. I’ve o...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/44:Dear Fan, I enclose cheque for £2. Please pay yourself the 10/8 which the carriage & duty came to on my parcel &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/47:Hanover, Monday, Dear Friend, I got your note here this morning on my arrival. I hope Miss Greene is really better. Cron read...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/48:Hanover, Sep 22nd 1900, I am so sorry Miss Greene is so ill. Caledon is said to be very good for rheumatism., Cron says he is...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/49:Hanover, Sep 22nd Sunday, Dear Friend, I hope you are off to Caledon soon. I fancy the politicians will be rather relieved at...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/50:Hanover, Sep 24 / 00, I am so glad Miss Greene is a little better. I am sure she ought to get away to Caledon for a time. Doe...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/51:Wednesday, Another lovely day has come to an end. Life is a delight in such a delightful climate as this, one feels as if one...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/55:Hanover, Oct 5 / 00, Dear Friend, I must write you a line this beautiful evening. This afternoon Cron & I went to the top...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/60:Oct 17 / 00, Dear Friend, I went to see Mrs de Villiers last night. She said she would be very glad to see you for a few days...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/66:Hanover, Tuesday, Dear Friend, If you see the Merrimans remember me very warmly to them. I was rereading one of Merriman’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/68:Thursday , Dear Fan , We leave this Monday evening for the Congress at Worcester. I shall come on on Thursday evening & s...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/69:Thursday, Dear Friend, I wonder you didn’t like Ellis book. It expresses just what I said in my second Boer article tha...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/70:Saturday morning , Dear Fan, If Will’s read that book of Ellis’s I sent him, please send it to Mrs Purcell with t...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold3/1900/71:Hanover, Dec Satur Monday the ?17th, Dear Friend, I was so glad to get your letter today. I hope the Montague Baths will do M...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/1:Dear Friend, I was very glad to get your letter, though letterwriting does not seem to be worth much now a days The commando ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/4:Hanover, Jan 27 / 01, Dear Friend, I want to know how things are going with you both. Cron says you are going to live in a li...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/5:Hanover, Jan 31st 1901, Thursday , Dear Friends, The town is heavy with reports today. The commandant & the magistrate as...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/7:Hanover, March 1st 1901, I was so glad to get your two notes, dear Friend. Has Miss H returned? or has she written? , We get ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/10:Hanover, March 6 / 01, Dear Fan , I was so glad to get your note & hear things are all going well with you; from Cron’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/12:Hanover, Thursday , Thanks for letter about the primus stove. There is no letter from Cron today & as he never misses I a...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/14:Hanover, March 13 / 01, Wednesday night, No post from Cape Town has come in today, dear Friend, so I have no news from you or...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/22:Dear Friend, The £5 from Miss Hobhouse has come. If it will you collect any more money keep it for the present, because ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/24:Hanover, March 29 / 01, Dear Mrs Brown, I have just got your letter. You will have seen from the papers what has happened to ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/26:Monday, My dear Friend, The four pounds came all right. I have still £5 of the £10 in hand. I want us to try & ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/29:Hanover, Thursday , Dear Friend, The clothes will be most useful. If Mrs Molteno will send them I will pay the postage out of...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/34:My own dear Friend, Thank you for your letter. To-day the news came to me that my brother Fred died suddenly, while attending...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/36:Hanover, May 13th 1901, My dear Friend, It’s a wild windy night, for two days & nights without any pause the wind h...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/38:Hanover, Sunday , My dear Fan, Cron arrived today. I didn’t want the doctor to send for him but he would send for him. ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/40:Hanover, June 17 / 01, My darling Friend, I am always thinking of you but I don’t seem able to write at all now. , Cron...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/41:c/o Mr J.A. Van Zyl, Hartebeest Hoek , nr de Aar, Thursday , Dear Fan, We came here last Monday; the change seems doing me go...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/42:My dear Friend, Everything is so dream-like. I never feel quite alive., We are perhaps going to Hope Town next week where Cro...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/43:Hartebeest Hoek, nr de Aar, July 6 / 01, Dear Friend, Thank you so much for your note. We are still here but shall either ret...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/44:Address to , Hanover , Hartebeest Hoek , Wednesday , My dear old Fan, Thanks for your letter. I am so sorry about Joubert. An...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/46:Dear Friend, I got an impertinent wire from from one of the men on the Cape Times asking me to wire & explain to him why ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/47:Hanover, C.C., 25 July 01, My dear Friend, Olive asks me to say she has seen Miss Ford’s letter, and that the extract p...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/49:Aug 1st 1901, My darling Friend, I have not got your but this morning the military commandant called with it. I am in bed but...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/50:Darling Sister,, My heart is with you & with our dear ones so far away: those who are ever in my thought & yours. I h...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/51:Dear Friends, Thank you for the dates. They are simply lovely; & nothing of the kind is to be got here. , If you can rais...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/54:Dear Fan,, I was so glad to get your note & will be very glad to get the letter you write of., I was so glad mother was a...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/55:Oct 14 / 01, My dear Friend, I hope you have quite got over your influenza. I think of you & Miss G continually but I hav...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/56:Sunday , Dear Fan, Many happy returns of your birthday old sister. I am so glad Will will be back in time for it. You don’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box2/Fold4/1901/61:Xmas Day , I hope you are both having a good Xmas day by the dear old sea or have you gone back to Kenilworth. I feel so happ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/1:Hanover, New Years Day, A Happy New Year dear ones to you both. This new year I think opens for us all a happier year that th...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/2:Jan 15th 1902, Dear Fan, I can’t think how Mrs Philpot can have sent the parcel to you. Please redirect it to me. If it...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/3:Dear Friend, In a way I feel sad to hear you & Miss Greene are going to England, & in a way glad. Glad for your sakes...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/6:Thursday, Dear Friend, I received your envelope with the cheque all right, & also your letter this morning. Letter writin...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/7:Hanover, March 20 / 02, Dear Friend, It was good to see your handwriting again. All goes with us as usual. Perhaps Cron may g...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/8:Hanover, April 4 / 02, Dear Friend, I got this morning your letter. I hope you & Miss Greene are both keeping pretty well...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/9:Thursday, My darling Mothie, I was so glad to get your card today, only sorry there was no news of Elberty. I am very anxious...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/10:Hanover, April 16 / 06, Dear Friend, Did I tell you that Cron was starting business here as a law agent? He has got a nice li...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/11:Hanover , May 2nd 1902, Dear Fan, I haven’t heard any news of you since the 24th of March when you wrote me birth-day l...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/12:Hanover, May 5th 1902, Dear Friend, It’s such a long letter time since I had any news not only from you but from any of...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/13:Hanover, May 16 / 02, Dear Friend, Thank you for your letter. I hope its nice & sunny down at Kalk Bay, & that both y...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/14:Hanover, May 23 / 02, Dear Fan, Thank you for the group at St James & the photograph which I suppose Emma sent me., But I...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/15:Hanover, May 25 / 02, My dear Dr Brown, I hope you are all having a good time in England, but I hope you will all get safely ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/17:Hanover, June 4th 1902, Dear Friend, It’s a long time since I had any letters from Cape Town from any one. I am wonderi...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/18:Hanover, June 9 / 02, Dear Fan, Don’t forget to send me the group of you & the children. I would love so to have th...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/19:Hanover, June 15 / 02, Thanks for your post card. This is a PC I have just got from Isie Smuts. It grieves me that after two ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/20:Hanover , June 30 / 02, Dear old Sister, Thankyou so much for writing so quickly about the stove & taking so much trouble...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/22:Hanover, July 17th 1902, Dear One,, I wonder if you can have gone to England with Miss Greene. But if you have this will be s...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/23:Hanover, July 27 / 02, Dear Friend, There is much to write of, but there seems to be no time & no strength. Thanks for yo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/24:Sunday night, Dear Fan, Thank you so much for writing to me. I’m glad you all had such a good time. It seems almost imp...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/25:Hanover, Sep 23rd 1902, Dear Fan, I am very anxious about the little mother & must come down next month to see her about ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/26:Hanover, Oct 5th 1902, Dearest Friend, I have not written to you for so long because I have been ill. Did you get my very lon...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/27:Hanover, Oct 6 / 02, Dear old Sister, I think as the weather seems so unsettled still I shall put off my visit till the end o...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/28:Hanover, Oct 12 / 02, My dear Fan, I shall probably leave this for Cape Town on the 24th or 25th of this month. If the weathe...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/29:?Ass, Sunday night, Dear old Sister,, I hope you are now quite all right again, & not "like Olive." any more! I was so gl...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/30:In the train. , It was so sweet of you dear, to come to say good bye to me. I’ve been very bad the last days or would h...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/31:Hanover, Dec 8 / 02, My darling Friend, I was so hoping you would be here by this time. I hope the delay in your leaving Engl...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold1/1902/35:Hanover, Dec 28 / 02, Dear Friend, Where are you? When are you coming? there are very nice people here keeping the hotel here...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold2/1903/1:Hanover, Feb 23 / 03, My darling Friend, I have just got your letter & also have seen in the paper that Mrs Anderson has ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold2/1903/2:Hanover, March 2 / 03, Dear old Man, Emma Schreiner writes me that she sent to your care asking you to send on to me a photog...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold2/1903/4:Hanover, March 28 / 03, Dear Friend, I was to grieved to see in the paper yesterday that your brother Percy’s eldest bo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold2/1903/6:Hanover, April 2nd 1903, Dear Fan, I was so glad of a word from you again. I am so often thinking of you., Our old landlady h...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold2/1903/8:Hanover, May 7 / 03, Dear old Fan, Do just drop me a line to tell you how it goes with you all. Did Will return set up by his...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold2/1903/9:Wednesday Hanover, May 1903, Dear Fan,, Cron was a little better before I went to Grahamstown but since my return has been ve...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold2/1903/10:Friday, Dear Fan,, Cron is much better to day, temperature normal., Please let me know dear if you have been able to get a ro...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold2/1903/11:c/o Mrs Kriel, Beaufort West, Thursday, My darling Fan, How are you all? How is Will., Cron has been staying for ten days at ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold2/1903/12:P.O. Uitkyk, Thursday, Dear Fan, Did you get the list for Danie Theron I sent to you. Please return to me as I want to try &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold2/1903/18:Hanover, Sep 14th 1903, Dear Friend, I have had no news from you since you were at E.P. but suppose you are now at your broth...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold2/1903/19:Hanover, Sep 25 / 03, My darling Friend, I’m so glad its nice at your brothers farm. The climate here is quite perfect ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold2/1903/21:Hanover, Oct 4 / 03, My darling Friend, Thank you for your card. I have got such wonderful photographs of my little mother so...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold2/1903/22:Hanover, Oct 10 / 03, My darling, I really must tell you something. Last night a man was here & Cron said he would lend h...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold2/1903/24:Hanover, Oct 5th 1903, Dear Friend, I haven’t written because for ten days I was unfit. I’m better again since Mo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/1:Hanover, Jan 4 / 04, Dearest Fan, I am back again & Hanover & Cron left last night on his six weeks tour. I have no o...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/2:Hanover, Jan 5 / 04, Darling Friend, You must please tell me a little about your house at ?Norwich & what kind of a schoo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/3:Hanover, Jan 9th 1904, Dear Friend, Your apricots came today so lovely & fresh. I am not able to eat any, but the little ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/5:Hanover, Jan 12 / 04, Dear Friend , The potatoes have come so quickly & well. Thank you so much. Your wire was very sweet...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/6:Monday night, Hanover, Jan 25 / 04, Dear Friend, Thank you for your sweet letter. Oh what should I do without you & Miss ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/7:Hanover, Jan 29 / 04, My dear Friend, I got a note from your nephew asking me to send the meerkats to Cape Town, but they are...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/8:Hanover, Feb 21 / 04, Dear old Sister, Some how I’ve been thinking so much of you the last days. I hope you are all hav...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/9:Thursday afternoon, Dear Friend, I wrote to you at Grabouw, but write to Cape Town again as your letter just received tells m...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/10:Monday morning, Dear Friend, I wonder how you have been feeling, if you had rain at the farm we have had pouring rain j here,...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/13:Little Hell of Desolation, June 10 / 04, Dear Friend, I did not understand you intended to start at once for Hanover, but tho...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/14:Hanover, June 10 / 04, Dear Fan, I took your cloak down to the station to give to Ettie who said she would be there, & wo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/15:Wednesday afternoon, Dear Friend,, I am so sorry to hear Miss Molteno is ill, & yet thankful to think she is compelled to...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/16:Hanover, June 15th 1904, Dear Friend, Thank you for your letter. I am so sorry that Miss Molteno is not fit. This evening I ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/17:Hanover, Thursday evening, June 16th 1904, My dear dear Friend, I was glad to get your letter this morning & know you wer...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/18:Hanover, June 19 / 04, Dear Friend, I am so thankful to hear Miss Molteno is better. I felt very anxious about her when I las...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/20:Tuesday morning, My dear Friend, I have not written the last days as I have not been very fit the last week or ten days &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/21:Hanover, June 21 / 04, My dear Friend, It’s quite a fine afternoon, the sun shining a little. I am getting my house in ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/22:Hanover, July 1st 1904, My own darling Friend, How I hope Caledon will do you good & that Miss Greene will find the baths...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/26:Hanover, July 11 / 04, My darling Friend, I got your wire saying you were off to Kennilworth. I wonder if you are going to En...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/28:Hanover, Wednesday, Dearest Friend, I got the letter this morning. I fear you are very very unwell, & I am in a way sorry...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/29:Dear Friend,, I’m so glad it has been such a good time with your brother, & I’m so thankful you are keeping w...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/30:Saturday, My darling Friend, I got your letter this morning I most fully understand it. I feel so sure the going to England i...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/31:Saturday night, My dear Friend, I am so glad you are going to England. This old country is too sad for one who has felt all a...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/32:Hanover, July 27th , Dear dear Friend, I am going to post this this afternoon so you get in Friday before you sale on Saturda...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/33:My darling Friend, I don’t know what you will have thought of me for not writing for so long. I haven’t been able...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/34:Hanover, Aug 3 / 04, Dear Friend, I feel sure I know what the trouble is. It is probably a matter in which you can’t be...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/35:Aug 5th 1904, Dearest Friend, I send you to the letter I’ve just got from Mrs Lawrence because I think what she tells a...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/39:Hanover, Aug 15 / 04, Dear Friend, I am leaving for Balfour on Tuesday next with Mrs Lewis I will meet her at the station &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/46:Sunday night, Dear Sis, I couldn’t come out to-day as I was not feeling well. I will try to come out & see you befo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/47:Monday night, My dear Friend, I was surprised to get your letter just now. Miss Greene at Campher’s Kraal yesterday. Am...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/48:Hanover, Friday, Dear Friend, I got here yesterday. You will have been at Uitkyk when I passed. It seemed a bit sad to think ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/53:Hanover, Nov 21 / 04, My darling Friend, You’ve been in my thoughts so much today quite present to me especially this e...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/54:Hanover, Nov 24 / 04, My darling Friend, You seem to be always with me sometimes almost present to me. I hope you are feeling...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/55:Hanover, Wednesday night, My dear Friend, My heart goes out with such a longing towards you tonight that though I’m ver...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/56:At Mrs Smuts’s , Pretoria, Dec 15 / 04, Dear Friend, I got here yesterday at four. It is beautiful to see green grass &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/59:Hanover, Dec 26 / 04, My dear Friend, I can’t remember whether I gave Miss Greene Alice Corthorn’s address, 30 St...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/1:Hanover, Jan 11 / 05, My darling Friend, I got your beautiful long letter today, also the one from London. Isn’t it rat...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/5:Hanover , Feb 8 / 05, Darling Friend, I am sitting alone in the new room, that wasn’t finished when you were here. Cron...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/6:Hanover , Feb 20 / 05 , My darling Friend, I wonder if you really are coming to Africa soon. I feel as if you were! , Cron re...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/8:Hanover, Feb 26 / 05, Dear Fan, Thanks so much for your letter. It was wonderful to see the dear old handwriting again!!, We ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/9:Hanover, March 6 / 05, My darling Friend, I do hope that influenza has not paid you a long visit. You are not in a state of h...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/13:Mrs Johnstons, April 22 / 05, Dear Friend, I wonder if you know what a comfort & pleasure your letters are to me. I’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/15:Eastbergholt, Tamboer’s Kloof Rd, Tamboer’s Kloof, April 28 / 05 , My dear Friend, I am still here. I was so go g...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/16:Eastbergholt, Tamboer’s Kloof Rd, Tamboer’s Kloof, Cape Town, May 2nd 1905, Dear Friend, The weather is cooler he...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/18:Eastbergholt, Tamboer’s Kloof Rd, Tamboer’s Kloof, May 10 / 05, My dear Friend, Your beautiful long letter about ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/21:June 5th 1905, Dear Friend, Thanks for your letter. We leave for Hanover next week. Parliament closes the day after tomorrow....
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/22:Hanover, June 24 / 05, My dear Laddie, I don’t suppose you will want to be troubled with letters on your wanderings. Yo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/23:Friday morning , Dear Fan , We are going to sleep at Cron’s sisters on Sunday night, (he is going to them on Saturday b...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/24:Hanover, July 1st 1905, My darling Friend, I do hope you will get away to Athens & Rome. (Oh Athens!) Miss Greene is quit...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/25:Hanover, July 11 / 05, My dear old Laddy, Thank you very much for your note from Nauheim. I am so glad they think your heart ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/26:Hanover, July 11 / 05, I am sitting as usual in my little study with Ollie on her rug before the fire & Gobalie sleeping ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/27:Hanover, July 22 / 05, Dear old Man,, When I was in Cape Town I was always able to get news of you from Fan & the childre...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/29:Saturday , Dear Fan, Please give me Will’s address in London, his permanent address. Did you say it was the Colonial In...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/30:Hanover, Aug 10 / 05, Dear Friend, I am sure the doctor is right & that you will be much better & stronger after a ti...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/31:Hanover, Aug 18th 1905, My dear Friend, I do wish you weren’t wasting all your time in London. Couldn’t you go of...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/32:Hanover, Aug 24 / 05, My dear Friend, I like to think you & Miss Greene are now wandering away some where in Switzerland ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/35:Hanover, Aug 31st 1905, My darling Friend, Yes, I know, sometimes we seem to have conquered anything & every thing is ope...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/37:Hanover, Sep 11th 1905, Dear Fan , Do drop me a line to tell me how the world goes with you & when your boys are coming o...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/38:Hanover, Sep 15 / 05, Another post has come & not a word from you. I can’t help feeling anxious but perhaps you hav...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/40:Hanover, Sep 24 / 05, Dear old Fan , So glad of your news & to hear all is still going well with you. I am so sorry to he...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/41:Hanover, Sep 28 / 05, My darling Friend, I am so glad to hear all goes so happily in France. I believe you are both going to ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/43:Hanover, Oct 7th 1905, Dear Friend, I got your post card from Geneva to day. I wonder if you will go to see Clarens on the ot...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/44:Hanover, Oct 31st 1905, My dear old Sister, I was grieved to hear from Cron on his return that you were looking so thin. What...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/45:Hanover, Thurs-day night, My dear old Sister, I must write you a line to congratulate you on the return of your dear ones. I ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold4/1905/48:Dear Fan, If I come I shall come to see you on Monday if I can. We shall arrive by mail train on Sunday afternoon. I haven’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/4:Hanover, Feb 22 / 06, Dear Fan, I’ve just got all the papers, so don’t trouble to send them., Cron came back from...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/5:Cronwright-Schreiner & Meyer, Law and Estate Agents., Auctioneers, &c,, Hanover and De Aar, Cronwright-Schreiner,, La...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/7:Cronwright-Schreiner & Meyer, Law and Estate Agents., Auctioneers, &c,, Hanover and De Aar, Cronwright-Schreiner,, La...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/10:Han, Hadden Hall, Tamboers Kloof, Wed June 4 / 06, Darling Friend, How I wish you were here. I think the best plan would be f...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/11:My dear old sister, It was a week yesterday since you left, & I’ve not yet had any news of how you got on. I’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/12:Haddon Hall, Tuesday, Dear Fan, I went down yesterday at six, but they told me the train was late & would not be in till ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/13:Haddon Hall, Aug 12th 1906, My darling Friend, I have just got Miss Molteno’s letter telling me of your brother’s...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/15:Hanover, Saturday, Dear Laddie, Mrs Brown has written to me to say how much she would like Dr B- to be on the University Coun...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/16:The Hotel, de Aar (otherwise Poker Flat), Sep 13th 1906, Dear Laddie, Thanks for your letter. We are here for the present. Cr...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/18:The Hotel, de Aar, Sep 25 / 06, Dear old Sissie, Your wire has just been sent on from Hanover. We were only a few days in Han...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/23:Hotel Milner, Matjesfontein, Oct 10 1906, Dear Fan, I don’t know just when your birthday is, but I know it’s some...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/24:Hotel Milner, Matjesfontein, Oct 14th 1906, Dear old Boy, I know you will be glad to hear I am getting on so finely here –...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/25:Hotel Milner,, Matjesfontein, Monday night, Dear Laddie, Yes, it was hockey not golf!, Don’t trouble to return Holyland...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/27:Hotel Milner, Matjesfontein, Nov 14th 1906, Dear Laddie, I enclose a note from Lady Loch which has a message for you in it. I...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/28:Hotel Milner, Matjesfontein, Nov 22nd 1906, My dear Fan, I was so glad of your letter. You write seldom, but when you do your...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/30:Matjesfontein, Dec 27th 1906, My darling Friend, It is a most curious thing that in all the long letter I’ve just got f...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold5/1906/31:Hotel Milner,, Matjesfontein, Dec 30th 1906, Dear Friend, I am going to try addressing this letter to Switzerland straight. I...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/2:Hanover, Jan 20th 19067, Dear Fan, I hope you are all having a good time at St James. I am waiting anxiously for the results ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/3:Hanover, C.C., Feb 12th 1907, My dear old Man, I really haven’t known how to write to you about our lad’s not pas...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/4:Hanover, March 22nd 1907, My dear old Laddie, I’ve wanted so much of late to write you along letter about several thing...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/7:Dear Laddy, Please post the enclosed to Con Lytton read it. My sweet girl Adela was so terribly disappointed at not seeing yo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/8:Hanover, April 8th 1907, My dear sweet little sister, Thank you for your letter I know how you are missing the old husband yo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/9:Hanover, April 19 / 07, My dear Laddie, I hope you will by this time be safely at the end of your voyage., Fan has sent me mo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/11:Hanover, CC, April 21st 1907, Dear Fan, Thank you so much for the photographs. They are simply splendid. Will’s large o...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/13:Hanover, CC, May 14 / 07, Darling Alice, I long so to hear from you; & more, to see you. I would write much longer letter...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/14:Hanover, May 20th 1907, My dear old Laddie , Welcome back to the land of our birth. I hope you had a restful, good voyage out...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/20:Cape Town, Sea Point, July 28th 1907, Darling Alice, Please send the news paper I send you with this on to Dot at Newnham whe...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/25:Rossyvera, Norfolk Rd, Sunday, My old Laddie, It was beautiful to see you looking so well, with something of the freshness &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/26:De Aar, Sep 3rd 1908, Dear Laddie, I had rather an interesting talk the night before last with an old friend of mine, an Engl...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/27:de Aar, Oct 14th 1907, My dear Fan, I think your birth day is on the 20th; I know its near & I wish my darling little sis...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/29:De Aar, Nov 8th 1907, Dear Friend, I got this letter from Bettie this morning & could not make it out till I found that i...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/30:De Aar, Nov 8th 1907, Dear Friend, I haven’t been able to write of late, but it’s such a curious comfort to me to...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/31:Hanover, Nov 30th 1907, My dear old Man, Let me know when there is any chance of seeing you on your way to Queenstown; there ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/34:de Aar, Dec= 16th 1907, Dear Laddie, I enclose a cutting in addressed envelope to save you the trouble of addressing. I fear ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/35:De Aar, Dec 21st 1907, Dear Laddie, We leave on the 26th for Hanover to see about packing things & trying to let or sell ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/5:De Aar, Jan 28th 1908, Dearest of Laddies, Your visit was a great refreshment to me. It is lovely & cool this morning too...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/6:Box 24, de Aar, Feb 9th 1908, Dear Laddie, I’m so glad our Bill has passed. Congratulations. I suppose you didn’t...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/8:De Aar, Feb 17 / 08, My dear Laddie, I don’t think you know how you are always in my thoughts. One reason why I am so a...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/9:De Aar, Feb 24th 1908, Thank you for your letter, dear. , This is my wedding day. I’ve been married 14 years to-day., I...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/10:Wednesday morning, Dear Laddie, Dear old Kier Hardie is with us he leaves tonight for Cape Town staying at the Royal Hotel Pl...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/11:Friday the 6th March, Dear Laddie , I enclose you a bit of Naude’s to me; destroy., I am so distressed about the old th...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/12:Dear Fan,, Old Man Will passed here, yesterday. Train only stopped three minutes. Am at Matjesfontein alone. The air is doing...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/13:Matjesfontein, March 21st 1908, My dear Laddie, I wonder how things are going with you. I had a long letter from Naude this w...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/14:Matjesfontein, March 22nd 1908, My dear brave, darling,, It has done my heart good to know you were were working on so in spi...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/15:March 24th 1908, Thanks for wire, dear old man. I only want to live many years more if I can work, if not I’d rather di...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/16:Matjesfontein, March 27 / 08, My dear old Sister, It was a pleasant surprise to get your letter. I had a very happy though qu...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/20:Rossyvera, Norfolk Rd, Sea Point, Sunday night, Dear old Man, I’m sorry I was so dead & alive yesterday but I can h...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/21:Matjesfontein, Sunday night, My dear old Sister, It was wicked of you not to come & see me, but I daresay you had visitor...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/27:Matjesfontein, May 8th 1908, My dear Laddie, I thought you were really unwell that last day. I believe its that deadly old Pa...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/29:Sunday afternoon , 10 May 1908 , Dear Laddie, I was glad to see thy handwriting. Yesterday afternoon the servant came in with...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/37:de Aar, June 4th 1908, Dear Laddie, It was good to see you. I hope the trip will do you good. You can hardly know how glad I ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/39:De Aar, June 6th 1908, My dear Fan, I saw the old man for about two minutes the other day. He looked better than when I saw h...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/42:de Aar, June 10th 1908, Dear Friend I do wish so you & Miss Greene would go & see the friend to whom the enclosed let...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/43:Dear Fan, I send you Mrs Purcell’s latest letter which I think will interest you about her return & also the suffra...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/48:Dear Laddie, I was sorry I didn’t hear your speech yesterday. Cron said it was the finest he’d ever heard you mak...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/60:De Aar, Oct 3rd 1908, My dear Fan, I know how much you have been missing your big girl, & so the old man will be off too....
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/63:de Aar, Nov 7th 1908, My dear old Laddie, My thoughts are always with you; but I’m not up to writing much. I do hope Gr...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/64:de Aar, Nov 21st 1908 , My dear old Laddie, I got the paper today sent me by Miss Colenso with your photo, & Dinizulus; &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/67:De Aar, Dec 24th 1908, Dear old sister, Thanks for your interesting letter. I hear from Dr Brown the boys are going up to spe...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/71:Matjesfontein, Dec 26 / 08, Dear old Fan, I’ve arrived here at last. I am feeling better already though I only came her...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold2/1909/2:Hotel Milner, Matjesfontein,, Cape Colony, My dear wicked old sister who never writes to me. I hear from Dr Brown that he saw...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold2/1909/7:Matjesfontein, Feb 5th 1909, My dear Fan, Theo is very well temperature 99 quite normal he only woke up once during the whole...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold2/1909/8:Monday, Theo is doing very well. Wants more soup than the doctor allows him to have, which is a very good sign. Saturday is t...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold2/1909/9:Matjesfontein, Feb 8th 1909, Dear Friend, I wonder if you are coming out you will have to make a close & hard bargain wit...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold2/1909/18:Matjesfontein, Wednesday, My dear old sister, I hope you get your glasses all right. I couldn’t anywhere find a good bo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold2/1909/19:Matjesfontein, March 24th 1909, Dear Fan, We shall arrive in Cape Town Monday evening. Cron says he will only be able to rema...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold2/1909/24:de Aar, May 7th 1909, Dear Laddie, If it’s cigarettes, then it’s coming that I am!! But don’t smoke them al...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold2/1909/26:De Aar, May 22nd 1909, Dear Fan, We shall be down in town on the evening of the 31st for this little session. It is all so de...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold2/1909/31:De Aar, July 6th 1909, Dear One, I didn’t write to you last week. I haven’t been well enough to write to any one....
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold2/1909/34:De Aar, July 12th 1909, Dear Laddie, My thoughts are always with you I am only so sorry that being so busy you won’t ha...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold2/1909/35:De Aar, 16 July 1909, Dear Laddie, I was glad to get your letter from Maderia, & find the voyage had been pleasant to you...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold2/1909/39:de Aar, July 27th 1909, My dear Laddie, I have a letter from Alice Corthorn by this mail, telling me she had dinner with you ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold2/1909/40:Aug 4th 1909, Dear Laddie, I suppose this is almost the last line from me that will reach you in England. Already the groans ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold3/1910/12:I am back at De Aar. Cron is away at Prince Albert to hold a political meeting. The pol future of South Africa seems to me to...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold3/1910/17:De Aar, Oct 7th 1910, My dear old sister, I must write you a line to tell you how I rejoice in your gladness in having your l...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold3/1910/18:Oct 15th 1910, Dear I loved your letter. Don’t think I’m so narrow that because I don’t see the way to wome...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold3/1910/19:De Aar, Monday, Dear old Man, I’m glad you are a senator – they could hardly do less. Moor is a fine man to have ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold3/1910/20:De Aar, Oct 28th 1910, Dear Fan, Thankyou so much for the fruit. I did enjoy it greatly. Thank you for wanting me to come, de...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold3/1910/21:De Aar, Oct 18th 1910, Hurrah! I have your birthday right at last!! I’ve got it safe in my book now! I hope Cron will g...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold3/1910/22:De Aar, Oct 25th 1910, My dear old Pal, I haven’t written to you much of late because I’ve not been up to writing...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold3/1910/25:c/o Haldane Murray Esq, Portlock, nr Graaff Reinet, Nov 219 / 10, My dear Lucie , I hope you & the dear children are all ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold4/1911/2:Oudeberg Hotel, Oudeburg, nr Graaff Reinet, Jan 29th 1911, Dear old Man,, I was glad of a word from you, & most glad to h...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold4/1911/9:De Aar, May 6th 1911, My dear Laddie, Your card excited me so I lay awake much of the night thinking over little Ursie’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold4/1911/10:Wednesday, Dear Laddie, I wrote yesterday to tell you I couldn’t go, but Cron wouldn’t let me post the letter. To...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold4/1911/14:de Aar , Tuesday, Dear old Sister , Thankyou for your letter. I am quite fearfully excited about going., At first I thought I...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold4/1911/19:de Aar, April , May 2nd 1911, Dear Laddie, I certainly think it would be most unwise to start a branch of the A.P. society he...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold4/1911/22:De Aar, August 14th 1911, Dear Laddie, Thy little sister has not forgotten the 30th but I fear this will come just two days t...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold4/1911/33:Saturday, Dear old Man, I hope you’ll have a good time of rest. You need it. I’m so glad our little woman is goin...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold4/1911/39:De Aar, August 26th 1911, Dear old Man, It was a disappointment to me to see from Adelas letter that you had not spoken at th...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold4/1911/44:De Aar, September 7th 1911, My dear old man I am sending you a cutting from a Jo'berg paper with a letter of dear old Cartwri...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold4/1911/46:Sunday, Dear old sister, Thank you for the interesting letter. I got a note from Ursie enclosing one from Lady Balfour to me,...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold4/1911/50:Tuesday afternoon, Dear Laddie, You will have arrived at home this morning. And there will be great rejoicings in the Villa t...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold4/1911/51:Nov 5th 1911, Dear Laddie, Yes that kind of frame will be lovely. My "Victories" frame is only made of four bits of plank put...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/11:Sunday morning, De Aar, Dear Laddie, Your cigars were much appreciated. Cron had two the day I got here & they did him wo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/12:De Aar, April 16th 1912, Dear Friend, I posted a card to you yesterday, but have your card today saying you have left Nels’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/18:De Aar, May 8th 1912, Dear old Man , I send you a letter which I have just got from Adela for you. The doctors have discovere...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/19:De Aar, May 24th 1912, Dear Laddie, I know how busy you are but could you drop me a line to tell me what you thought of her w...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/20:Friday , Dear old Man, I think from Wynnie’s last letter the end must be very near Wire to me when you have any news. W...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/22:De Aar, May 31st 1912, My beloved Friend, I have no no news of you. I suppose Alice came & you went together to Natal, bu...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/25:Tuesday, I did not get away last night. I was too tired to go I shall stay till the end of the week. Cron’s mother died...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/27:Sunday afternoon, Dear Fan, I got here about 11 this morning after a very comfortable journey with a carriage quite to myself...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/29:De Aar, June 20th 1912, Dear Bettie & Alice, I wish so much you would go to see my friend Mrs Alexander. She she is at Ki...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/30:De Aar, July 5th 1912, Dear Laddie, Great rejoicings in this heart over Son Oliver’s success. I’m glad for his sa...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/31:De Aar, July 5th 1912, Dear old Sister, I suppose you are all rejoicing over having the son back with you, & are having a...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/34:De Aar, July 20th 1912, My dearest old Man, It seems so long since I had any news of you directly or indirectly, except that ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/37:De Aar, Aug 13th 1912, Dear Laddie, Thanks much for the penguin eggs, much enjoyed for supper this evening by us both. , I ho...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/42:De Aar, Aug 24th 1912, Dear old sister, It seems a long time since I wrote to you, but it’s longer I think since you wr...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/45:De Aar, Monday evening, My own old Laddie, This letter will reach you just after you have parted with your boy, & a big b...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/47:De Aar, Thursday , My dear Laddie, I’ve been wanting to write to you for days, but the old pump doing its work badly, &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/48:De Aar, The 15th 1912, Thanks of your letter, dear, & the addresses. Heat & drought continue Drysdales temperature is...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/49:De Aar, Oct 17th 1912, Dear Fan,, I’m certain its your birth-day all right because I’ve got it down in my book. O...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/50:De Aar , Oct 24th 1912, Dear Laddie, Thank you so much, but Cron says he can’t come down now; he may perhaps for a week...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/51:De Aar, Oct 24th 1912, Dear Fan, Thank you so much for your letter. Wouldn’t I like to come down but Cron says he can’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold1/1912/53:Dear Laddie , I shall have to come down to Cape Town soon – as soon as I’m able to get my packing done. I’v...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/4:Grand Hotel, Muizenberg, South Africa, Thursday, It’s lovely our girl has passed isn’t it dear? I’ll come &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/11:Kimberley Villa, Muizenberg, March 27th 1913, Alice & Betty dear,, I would come & see you at Lucys, but I so fear whe...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/13:De Aar, April 10 / 13, Dear old sister, I hope you have got safely to your journeys end as far as Queens Town & are havin...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/14:Dear Laddie , Please send me Mr "Renaut" address on this card He sent me a box of fruit & I can’t write to thank hi...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/16:De Aar, Apr May 3rd 1913, Dear Laddie , Please let me know when Fan passes here. The weather is lovely now & the veld fin...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/18:Friday , Dear Fan, I spent all yesterday trotting up & down to the station. At 11 o’clock I went in the morning thi...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/22:Dear Laddie, Thanks for the letter. He seems a "good old sort." As for me I’m so weary with the so called Liberal Gover...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/27:Dear Friend, Thank you for your letter. Dear Mrs Murray has offered me a little cottage on her farm close to Graaff Reinet &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/28:Thursday , Dear Laddie, Thank you much for your letter. You don’t know what a few words of greeting to me on the road a...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/31:De Aar, Monday , Dear Laddie, You may like to look at the enclosed as I know your old heart likes to know how people love &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/34:Dear old man, Ursie writes me that you are going to Bloemfontein soon. Couldn’t you possibly spend a few days with us? ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/37:Thursday, Sept 12th 1913, Private, My dear old Man, It was good to see the dear old face for a moment Saturday will be a sad ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/38:Saturday, My dear old Boy, It was nice to have a peep at you. Please tell me know just when you pass here. I hope its gone we...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/39:Dear old sister,, This is the 24th & your birthday was the 20th, so very late I wish you many happy returns & a long ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/49:Dear Will,, Cron says the traffic manager will be more likely to do what I ask through you. Could you or Bill take this note ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/51:Edinburgh Castle, Day before crossing the line, Dear Laddie, I’m writing now as it may be too late hot later on & I...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/5:Le Grand Hotel et D’Alassio, Alassio, Riviera, Italie, Jan 30 / 14, My dear Laddie, I wonder how things are going with ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/7:Alassio, Italy, Feb 6th 1914, Dear Boy, I much wish to know what you feel about Cape matters. , The paper this morning said y...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/8:Le Grand Hotel et D’Alassio, Alassio, Riviera, Italie, My dear old Sister , Thank you for your interesting long letter....
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/9:Le Grand Hotel et D’Alassio, Alassio, Riviera, Italie, Dear Betty, I know not where thou art wandering or what thou art...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/11:Le Grand Hotel et D’Alassio, Alassio, Riviera, Italie, 21st 1914, Dear old Man, I have just got your letter. I’d ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/47:Tuesday, 30 Mary Abbott’s Terrace, My darling Will, How are you? My heart is breaking over South Africa Oh if only I ha...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/48:Tuesday, My dear Will, I was glad to get your letter. I don’t know if any good will my come of my talk with Lloyd Georg...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/60:Thursday, Dear, Just had a long letter I wrote to you from Amsterdam returned to me by Dr Jacobs, who had it returned to her ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/61:30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace , Sep 11th 1914, Darling Alice, Please post the enclosed letter to Cron at de Aar. I am sending yo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/70:Bay View, Hy West Parade, Hythe, Friday, Dear I do long so that you & Ursula were here. The weather is so lovely, the sea...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/71:Monday, Hythe, Dear, Am very unwell. Shall probably be leaving Hythe on Wednesday for London or Cornwall, so don’t writ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/72:The Windsor, 61 & 62 Lancaster Gate,, W., Dear Laddie, So bitterly sorry I missed you. I went to Miss Brackenburys & ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/73:The Windsor, 61 & 62 Lancaster Gate, W, My darling Will, I have a strangely interesting letter from Cron which I will sho...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/74:The Windsor, 61 & 62 Lancaster Gate, W, Dear Have you news of Ol. I think of him in this damp & cold which Cape Peopl...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/80:Telephone: 3675 Kensington., Telegrams: Apartment, London. This is the cable adddress., Kensington Palace Mansions & Hote...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/82:Telephone: 3675 Kensington., Telegrams: Apartment, London., Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel, De Vere Gardens, W. , Thu...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/83:Telephone: 3675 Kensington., Telegrams: Apartment, London., Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel, De Vere Gardens, W., My d...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/84:Telephone: 3675 Kensington., Telegrams: Apartment, London., Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel, De Vere Gardens, W. , Thu...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/89:Telephone: 3675 Kensington., Telegrams: Apartment, London., Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel, De Vere Gardens, W., My d...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/91:Address care Standard Bank, Kensington Palace Mansions,, De Vere Gardens, W, My dear dear Friend, How I long to see you., Its...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold4/Jan-June1915/4:Telephone: 3675 Kensington., Telegrams: Apartment, London., Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel, De Vere Gardens, W., Jan ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold4/Jan-June1915/15:Telephone: 3675 Kensington., Telegrams: Apartment, London., Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel, De Vere Gardens, W., Mond...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold4/Jan-June1915/22:Telephone: 3675 Kensington., Telegrams: Apartment, London., Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel, De Vere Gardens, W. , Dea...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold4/Jan-June1915/26:Telephone: 3675 Kensington., Telegrams: Apartment, London., Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/12:c/o Dr Parker, Llandrindod Wells, Wales, Aug 13th 1915., Dear Fan, I had a note from Oliver last week. There does not, from t...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/16:Llandrindod Wells, Wednesday , Thanks for your letter dear. I try not to think of the boy: but the other day as I was sitting...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/17:Wednesday, Thank you, dear old man, for your letter. I see in today paper that Mrs Goodhead’s husband has been wounded....
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/31:Dear Fan,, I’m glad there came letters from the children for the 20 th I guess they were all talking & thinking of ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold2/1916/12:Alexi, The Park, Hampstead, Tuesday, My dear Laddie, It was not for nothing that I was depressed all day on Saturday. I am no...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold2/1916/16:Alexi, 31 The Park Park, Hampstead, nr Golders Green., Wednesday, Dear Will, I am feeling rather anx-ious about our boy as th...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold2/1916/23:Cron writes me Haldane Murray was killed in German East on the 16th. He was like my brother so good & kind to me. I feel ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold2/1916/25:Alexi, 31 The Park, Hampstead, Monday, Dear Fan. I’ve been meaning to write to you all the week to thank you for all yo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold2/1916/37:Saturday , Thank you for your letter. I am so glad the Boy is so near you; I wonder if it chanced so, or if you managed to ar...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold2/1916/48:My dear old sister, Friday will be your birthday. Many happier returns of it, with all your children & your friends about...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold3/1917/5:19 Adam St Portman Sq, Tues-day, Dear Laddie, I think you & Fan will like to see Cron’s few words about our Bill, w...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold3/1917/11:Dear Laddie, Thank you for your dear old note. I am sorry I wrote as I did, but I am completely broken down the stone in the ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold3/1917/22:6506 Paddington, telephone, 9 Porchester Place, Monday, Dear Laddie, Please return me that little Allegory. I am trying to ge...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold4/1918/26:Wednesday, My dear old Brother, Have you any news of Oliver? I have not heard from him since he left, & have had no lette...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold4/1918/29:Sunday, Dear old Man, I am waiting anxiously to hear your boy is safe at home with you. I expect he will come today. , Have y...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/14:Betty darling,, Tell Alice she mustn’t think of answering my letter. I know just how she loves me, & you give me he...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/33:9 Pl, Tuesday, Darling Betty, You are ever with me. I know all you are living through, but you have this, that you know you a...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/37:Thursday, Darling May, I enclose Aunt Betty’s of Monday. It is clear Alice is growing weaker & weaker, if she has t...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/44:Dec 12th 1919, Dear old Sister, I wasn’t able to write to anyone last week, even Cron. Edna told me she had a letter fr...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/2:Jan 4th 1920, Sunday night, It’s just twelve o’clock but as I can’t sleep I may as well write. Oh we are ha...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/8:My darling old sister, I’ve just got a letter from Cron he seems so very very pained because you never answered that lo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/11:Porchester 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, Jan 22 / 1920, My dear old Sister, I got your interesting long letter yesterday. Y...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/15:Saturday night, Dear Heart, Some how I feel anxious about you because I didn’t get the little card today & I can’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/22:9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, Feb 3rd 1920, Dear old sister, I must tell you that I saw Edna & Oliver at their rooms ye...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/27:Feb 9th 1920, My dear old Sister , At last yesterday I managed to get to see Edna. She looks very well, so pretty; she looks ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/29:Feb 13th 1920, My dear old JB, It is strange I always feel better in the night. That is the only time I am able to write. Don...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/7:April 10th 1920, Dear old Sister, Mist & rain & rain, & rain & mist! Nothing else. I never knew such an April...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/10:May 13th 1920, My dear dear old sister, I have not seen Edna or the babe for ten days but Ol wrote me they were doing well. I...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/13:June 17th 192, Dear old Sister, Its ages since I had any news of you! I am going to see Edna next Saturday. I’ve not se...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/14:Friday night, Darling Betty, I am always thinking of you I shall be so glad to hear how you are. I sometimes feel when you he...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/15:Thursday, My dear dear Betty, I do hope you are having a good restful time. I am very happy, Cron is so sweet, & its so g...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/17:Union-Castle Line, R.M.S “Balmoral Castle” , Aug 24th 1920, Dear Betty, I am always wondering how it is going wit...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/20:Binzana, Plumstead, Sep 5th 1920, My darling Betty, To-day Carol & Lucy came to see me; they stayed about two hours. We h...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/24:Address to Standard Bank, Strand Street, Cape Town, My darling Betty, Yesterday Mrs Victor Molteno & Mary called. Little ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/33:Oct Nov 5th 1920, My darling darling Betty, Oh how I wish you were here: all this trouble with the poor natives makes me long...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/37:Midwood, Palmyra Road, Newlands , Sunday, My darling Betty, I am spending a few days with Jessie Rose-Innes. I had a great tr...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/47:My dear, dear, dear Mary, , I’ve not been able to write to any one lately or I would have written to you. When is the ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/9:De Aar, Wednesday, Dear Fan, I hope all has gone well with May. It may be she was quite out in her count – people often...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/10:Darling Laddie, Just as I’d finished my screed to you Cron came in with your so very welcome letter & the enclosed ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/12:Hanover, Tuesday, Thanks so much dear sister, for all the trouble you took. I shall arrive in Cape Town S on Sunday evening t...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/14:Hanover, May 16th ?1902, Dear Fan, Many thanks for your letter. It’s very nice to have any news of you., If it takes so...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/16:June 29th 1906, Your brother James made a splendid speech in the house yesterday. It was a most lively afternoon. Cron & ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/25:De Aar,, April 24 / 90, My dear old Julie, You looked so pretty & well & happy I thought you must be in love & go...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/28:Dear Boy, Enclose Alice’s post card to me. I’m so glad the children make her so happy. I wonder if I shall see yo...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/29:Monday, Your paper was splendid dear. Oh you must write about the natives. You could do so much. I believe you have found you...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/31:Friday, Grand Hotel, Muizenberg, Dear Son Bill, I wish I was at de Aar to welcome you to my little house. I expect it looks p...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/35:Dear, Please address enclosed to Dot. I hope you have had more news from Oliver. But I doubt whether letters come quickly or ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/38:Llandrindodd Wells, Wales, Sunday, Dear Will, I send you a bit of Cron’s letter. Do you know where one can get the pict...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/41:Dear Laddie, I know of course you won’t agree at all with this l the view in this little allegory – but I’d...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/3:[page/s missing], 2, & smart though you wouldn’t believe it!! Cron says I make an idol of it!) & yet have plent...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/7:Thursday, I hope it goes well with the speeches, dear one. I’m thinking of you. I’m very ill, dear again, but you...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/9:Hanover, Friday night, My dear Fan, Will you please send me the address name & numbers of your little stove in the kitche...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/11:Hanover, Wednesday night, Oh I hope so much you are both going to Uitkÿk. I am sure it will be good for you. I wonder if...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/13:Saturday , Dear Friend, I can’t come to you in this weather & you can’t come to me "because of all the houses...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/14:Darling Betty, I’ve been here a week to-day. But I’ve only seen Will once for a few minutes, & dear sweet Ann...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/19:Dear Fan, I was to have left yesterday for Pretoria to speak on woman & labour at the Womans Domestic Industries Congress...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/22:Saturday morning, It was so sweet of you to come yesterday, darling sissie. I will come on Wednesday & try the one night....
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/23:[page/s missing], The Malans are going out with me, & we would be a nice little party if you would come too, but you’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/31:My darling Friend, Just drop me a post card to tell me how it goes with Hellen’s health., We shall return to Hanover in...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/34:Cronwright-Schreiner & Co., Law, Estate & General Agents:, Auctioneers;, Sworn Appraisers, P.O. Box 24, De Aar, C.C., ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/40:Dear old sister, I’m very flap-doodlely. The heat & the height are pretty bad. I would start off for some where at ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/42:Saturday, Oh Will my dear dear Laddie, Do go to Europe for a holiday & to take the Nauheim treatment this year. You don’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/43:Dear Fan, I generally make my bread with zoet-zuur, which I like the best; but sometimes I make it with the "magic yeast", wh...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/44:De Aar, Sep Sunday, My dear Laddie, I’m perhaps coming down to Cape Town just for one day, to see Dr Thomson. Please ha...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/45:De Aar, Thursday, Dear old man, I got home at 12 to day. I found a nice letter from Ursula awaiting me here. She writes so wi...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/46:My dear old Laddie , This is all the news Cron gave me of the ?event & dance. I suppose that’s what he referred to....
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/48:De Aar, Friday, Dear Bettie, I’m glad you’re having a good time at Miller’s Point with Lucie’s sweet ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/50:Monday , Dear Laddie, Thank you for your gift. I hardly like to take it now., My landlady has just given me notice to leave a...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/53:[page/s missing], 2, Kensington Place Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Oh, however since that accursed peace of Ve...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/63:Darling Betty, I would bring your letter this morning but am not well enough to go out. I enclose some interesting cuttings P...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/66:Sunday morning, Dear Laddie , Have you heard of Oliver?, I sent you to 59 Cadogan Place a little bottle of the ?Pain-Balm I f...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/70:Monday , My dear Laddie, I went to see the Brackenbury’s today. The eldest Miss B- was away but I gave your message to ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/71:Thursday , Darling Betty I have been hoping against hope you would turn up this evening, but now it’s 11.30. so there’...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/74:My old Brother , I was disappointed to find you still looking so unfit on Sunday., I had telephone twice in the week to know ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/78:Thurs-day , 9 Porchester Place, Dear Laddie , You may not have seen the enclosed cutting. Return it in the addressed envelope...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/85:Miss Molteno, My darling Betty, I am so sorry I mentioned to you this morning that Hughie Cartwright was dying of cancer. I k...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/86:Wednesday, My darling Betty, I sometimes feel so anxious about you. I feel as if you may not be very well., It is so hot here...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/3:[page/s missing], but I suppose you will spend Xmas in Cape Town. I do hope there won’t be very many people on the Dunv...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/4:[page/s missing], 2, PS I feel such horror at the thought of having to go to Cape Town, & all the political quarrelling &...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/8:[page/s missing], 2, Give her much love when you write., The childrens photos have not come. I hope you didn’t give the...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/13:J Box 2, Johannesburg, Friday., Dear Laddie, It has not been because you have not always been in my thoughts that I have not ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/14:[page/s missing], soft. When we got down we found, it only David getting his supper!!!!, Hofmeyr says he will come & see ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/15:Dear Fan , As you won’t come to see me I must come to see you: If I die the sin is on your head!!! Will it be convenien...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/20:Wagenaar’s Kraal, Three Sisters, Dear Friend, I have just heard of dear old Cronje’s surrender. Every one here is...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/21:Beaufort West, Thursday night., I am back in the old room missing you & Miss Greene so. I do hope you gave the MS of your...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/26:Monday afternoon, Dear Friends,, I am writing this in case you come by the six o’clock train tomorrow, & I cannot b...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/27:Kimberley, Thursday, Dear Friend, I haven’t been able to write to you or anyone. I’m too tired I leave for Kimbe...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/30:Saturday, Hanover, Yes, Julie darling, money can’t pay for love or sympathy, not even the least little touch of it. But...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/33:Jan 4 / 01, Dear Friend, I enclose the cheque for £261.0.0 I have sold the little house & sent the money down to the...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/36:Beaufort West, Wednesday, Dear Friend, When you’ve corrected the MS please give them to Cron. I want to send one to Ame...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/38:Dear Friend, The grapes came yesterday & were lovely. We have not even milk now, so ones diet is very limited., I will go...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/41:My darling Friend, No card from you again this mail. I see my darling Con is in prison once more. I am very anxious about her...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold2/Misc/3:Dear Miss Greene, Do come in June it will be lovely. You’ll like the blue-gum trees, & it will be such a rest to me...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold2/Misc/4:Wednesday, Dear Miss Greene, I do hope you are feeling quite better again & will be able to go up the mountain on Saturda...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box8/Fold4/MMPr/AssortedCorres/FredPL/3:Hanover, October 25th, 1905 , I’m glad to know it has been so pleasant at the Falls. I am writing this in the hope of i...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box8/Fold4/MMPr/AssortedCorres/FredPL/9:Undated, We are fighting hard here. A Woman’s measure was proposed in the Upper House last Thursday. It would have been...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box8/Fold4/MMPr/AssortedCorres/FredPL/10:I have not been working at my book. Running a house with one little coloured girl to help you, you can’t get any time f...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box8/Fold4/MMPr/AssortedCorres/FredPL/13:(first page missing) Undated, …at a large Suffrage meeting in Cape Town. I am glad he has spoken out for us at last. Th...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box8/Fold4/MMPr/AssortedCorres/FredPL/15:de Aar, August 1910 , Yours is most valuable as giving as outlook over the whole position in England, very clear and very int...
- Western Cape Archives: The Jeffreys collection holds three Schreiner letters is part of the manuscript holdings of the Western Cape Archives. The on... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- Jeffreys A1657/266/3:Krantz Plaats, P.O. Haleowen, May 31 / 94, Dear Charley, Would you do me the great favour of addressing the enclosed letter t...