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Smuts (The)
Refers to Sybella Margaretha ('Isie') Smuts and Jan Christiaan Smuts
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National English Literary Museum, Grahamstown: The National English Literary Museum is the leading location for collections pertaining to the imaginative and creative writi... Show/Hide Collection Letters
Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/55:De Aar, Saturday , Dear Mrs Murray, I was so glad to see your hand-writing again., I am leaving for a short visit to the Tran...
- 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 26/2.16/195:…From Vereeniging to Johannesburg we went by the new line, using the first train that had ever passed upon it... Advoca...
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- John X. Merriman MSC 15/1907:91:Rossyvera , Norfolk Rd , Sea Point, Ju Aug 2nd 1907, My dear Mr Merriman, I was indeed very sorry that I was out when you cal...
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- 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/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/Fold2/1903/26:Dear Friend, I hope you will get this note Mrs Purcell tells me you are still in Cape Town. Did Mrs Murray sail on the 14th a...
- 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/Fold3/1904/57:Hanover, Xmas Eve, Dear Friend, I am sitting here in my little study again. The time at Pretoria was splendid. No accounts of...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/58:Hanover, Xmas eve, Have just returned from Pretoria. Saw ?Nasy at the Smuts’ where I stayed. He’s grown into such...
- 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/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/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 ...