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Emma Earp (nee Findlay)

Emma Leonora Earp nee Findlay (1868 - 1954) was a daughter of Katie Schreiner (Schreiner’s oldest sister) and John Findlay and thus one of Schreiner’s nieces. Schreiner’s extant letters to Emma are scattered from the late 1880s around the time of Emma’s marriage to Charles Earp, until 1919 and the death of their son Errol from pneumonia at the end of the First World War. The letters read very much as kindly letters from an aunt to her niece and chiefly concern family news.

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 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

 E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/2:Alassio, Italy, For Emma, My dear Niece, I must write a line to tell you I have beepaperdamaged glad to hear of your happinpa...

 E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/3:Roseneath, Harpenden, Herts, Sep 20 / 88, My dear Emma,, Thank you very much for the letter which I greatly valued. I liked s...

 E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/4:The Sanatorium, Ceres, Sunday Night, My dear Emma, Thank you so very much for your kind letter. I should have answered it at ...

 E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/5:Sunday , The Homestead, Kimberley, Dear Emma, Thankyou very much for the beautiful likenesses. They are very good. I do hope ...

 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 47/1.17/8:The Homestead, Dec 6 / 97, My dear Emma, You are always in my mind. I am so anxious to get further news of you. No words can ...

 E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/10:Feb 28th 1906, My dear old Emma, A little bird has told me that I am to be made richer by another little nephew or niece in J...

 E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/11:Dear Emma, Please send the enclosed card to Ely. I've forgotten her address., I hear your Olive is engaged. Is it true? I hop...

 E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/12:9 Porchester Place, Edgeware Rd, London W., Feb 20th, My darling Emma, Yesterday afternoon I heard that your boy had passed a...

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 Findlay Family A1199/4457:9 Porchester Place, Edgeware Rd, London W. , Feb 3rd 1920, Dear Bessie, You've never answered my last letter, but in the war ...

 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 26/2.16/54:…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 26/2.16/182:…Thank you my husband for the letter I got this morning. It made all the day seem lighter… Sweet little Neta is o...

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 Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.15:Lily Kloof, Sep. 12 / 79., My dear Katie, I was very glad to get your letter & have sent Mama’s on to her. I am onl...

 Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.28:Dear Sister Katie, I fear you will find me a very bad correspondent., I dislike letter writing so much, but I am often thinki...

 E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/2:Alassio, Italy, For Emma, My dear Niece, I must write a line to tell you I have beepaperdamaged glad to hear of your happinpa...

 E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/3:Roseneath, Harpenden, Herts, Sep 20 / 88, My dear Emma,, Thank you very much for the letter which I greatly valued. I liked s...

 E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/4:The Sanatorium, Ceres, Sunday Night, My dear Emma, Thank you so very much for your kind letter. I should have answered it at ...

 E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/5:Sunday , The Homestead, Kimberley, Dear Emma, Thankyou very much for the beautiful likenesses. They are very good. I do hope ...

 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...

 E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/8:The Homestead, Dec 6 / 97, My dear Emma, You are always in my mind. I am so anxious to get further news of you. No words can ...

 E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/9:So glad of good news Much love to dear Emma. I hope the little son continues to thrive., Olive Schreiner, 4th 1898,

 E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/10:Feb 28th 1906, My dear old Emma, A little bird has told me that I am to be made richer by another little nephew or niece in J...

 E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/11:Dear Emma, Please send the enclosed card to Ely. I've forgotten her address., I hear your Olive is engaged. Is it true? I hop...

 E.L. Earp MSC 47/1.17/12:9 Porchester Place, Edgeware Rd, London W., Feb 20th, My darling Emma, Yesterday afternoon I heard that your boy had passed a...

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 Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/20:Grahamstown, Wednesday, My Ettie., How strangely unlike anything we had planned all is turning out. Here I am at Lillies. We ...

 Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/23:57 Grove Street , July 16 / 91, My darling sister, I was so glad to get your letter this morning. Your joy makes me very happ...

 Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/87:Hadden Hall, Aug 6 / 06, My darling Effie, I am so glad to hear things go fairly well with you. Yes, dear, I shall love to co...

 Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/113:My darling Effie, How is Baby & how are you? I am going to drive up to see you & him one afternoon. Isn’t sad t...

 Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/170:Darling Wynnie, Will you please send the enclosed letters to Emma Earp. I don’t know her address It is too dreadful tha...

 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/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/Box6/Fold4/1918/5:Wednesday, My darling Alice,, I haven’t written to you because I know it would mean only another letter for you to writ...

 Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/19:c/o Mrs Scott, Binzana, Plumstead, We got here on Monday. We had a terrible storm the last two days & nights & the co...

 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/11:The Homestead, Jan 10 / 97, Dear Friend, I am so very glad to hear Miss Green is so much better. No doubt she has had the bes...