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Bessie Reitz
Bessie Reitz was the daughter of Frank Reitz and thus a niece of Fan Schreiner’s, and she later qualified as a medical doctor. Schreiner makes several mentions of Bessie Reitz in her later letters and seems to have been in contact with her particularly in 1914 when Bessie was in London for a time. In a 1912 letter to Merriman she commented of Bessie, “She is the most remarkable girl, with a heart as warm & large as her intellect is bright & burning.”
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- John X. Merriman MSC 15/1912:211:De Aar, Tues-day, Dear Mrs Merriman, Many thanks for your letter I have written for the price lists, We live largely on dried...
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- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold3/1904/52:Hanover, Nov 12 / 04, Dear Friend, I have just found a long letter I wrote to you the week after you left. I kept it to get y...
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- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/54:I got a most interesting long letter from you dated 31st of July from Hotel Adela. I agree with it entirely except about the ...
- 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/Fold3/1914/77:Dear Alice How I long to know just how you both are in every way. Write me a post card at least. Its three weeks since I’...
- 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/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/13:June 16th 1919, Dear J.B., I hope all goes well with you all. I do hope our Julie gets better. I saw Alice Corthorn. She is v...
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- 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/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/18:Birzana Plumstead, Sept 1st , Darling May, I landed on the 30th We had a terrible storm the last two days, but got here all r...
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- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/50:Friday, Darling Betty, I enclose you a sweet letter I got from Margaret this morning. I am sending her a letter of introducti...