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May Murray Parker
May Murray (1881 - 1972) was a daughter of Caroline and Charles Murray. She married a British medical doctor, Frederick Parker, in 1915 and together they lived at Llandrindod in Wales until 1920, when they removed to South Africa. Olive Schreiner stayed at the Parkers’ home, which they ran as a bed-and-breakfast cum sanatorium, on a number of occasions during the First World War, and it was here too that Will Schreiner died following his final illness in June 1919.
Schreiner’s first extant letter to May Murray Parker dates from 1913 and thanks her for her letter. In the early letters in particular, there is a strong sense of May very much as the younger woman and the daughter of one of Schreiner’s friends, Caroline Murray. However, later a close and affectionate bond developed between Schreiner and May. When May moved to Britain in 1915 to marry Freddy Parker, Schreiner wrote warmly to welcome her, and thereafter she stayed with the Parkers in Llandrindod Wells on a number of occasions and commented to May, “I think of your dear little house as a sort of heaven of happiness & rest & love.”
While Schreiner’s letters to May Murray Parker mainly concern exchanges of family news and other pleasantries, it is clear that for Schreiner Parker was a link to her South African friends and life, and a loving presence during her rather lonely and difficult years in wartime London. From Schreiner’s many letters of thanks, it is clear that May Parker, living in comparative comfort in a small town in Wales, sent Schreiner (who along with most Londoners, was suffering from wartime food privations) many gifts of food (butter, chicken, rusks and so forth). Schreiner wrote a moving letter of condolence to May in April 1918 when her brother George Murray was killed in the war. She also wrote a number of letters to May in 1919 when Will Schreiner went to stay with the Parkers in Llandrindod Wells during his final illness, suggesting ways to make Will comfortable, and after his death thanking May for all that she and her husband Freddie had done to help Will and support Fan Schreiner.
May Murray Parker also played an important role after Schreiner’s death in preserving some of her papers and in commemorating Schreiner’s legacy. In 1955, for example, she with Daisy Solomon and others organised a series of events commemorating the centenary of Schreiner’s birth. As part of this, May Murray Parker transcribed 41 letters written by Schreiner to her friends Frederick and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. The originals of these letters are now no longer extant and so the typescripts produced by May Murray Parker and archived at the University of Cape Town are all that remain of these important letters.

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Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/30:Dear May, Thank you much for your letter. I am so glad Miss Hobhouse is coming to you. I thought now your mother was away she...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/52:Union Castle Line, RMS Edinburgh Castle, Dear May, The flowers you & Kathleen put into my room are still quite fresh. I n...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold4/Jan-June1915/3:Telephone: 3675 Kensington., Telegrams: Apartment, London., Kensington Palace Mansions., De Vere Gardens, W. , Dearest May, M...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/35:2 Campden Hill Square, W. , Friday , My dear May , Thank you so much for your letter. The dining room must look very pretty &...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/48:Xmas morning, So many thanks for your two dear letters, which reached me just now, making my Xmas morning much brighter. , Yo...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/50:Tuesday, Dear May, Thanks for letter & card. I suppose Miss Van Heerden didn’t know my address. Miss Hobhouse must ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold2/1916/10:Alexi, 31 The Park, Hampstead, London N, Dear May, Thankyou so much for your letter. I am indeed sorry to hear about your unc...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold2/1916/21:Alexi, 31 The Park, Hampstead, Tuesday, Thank you, dear, for your letter & your husband’s. Thank him much for the a...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold4/1918/2:9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, Wednesday, Dear May, Thank you for the callendar., Just now Betty came back from Palace Court...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold4/1918/10:March 24th, Darling May, I thought this was your wedding day, but wasn’t quite sure. , Thank you for your wonderful pre...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold4/1918/14:9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd , Sunday, My darling May, All my heart is folding you round with love & tenderness. I know...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/4:March 20th 1919, Darling May, I have given away all your cards but one, & hope they will be successful. Am I right in say...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/8:May 23rd 1919, My darling May, A very nice woman who has given me some heart massage (she’s very clever) wants to go fo...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/11:Private, 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, Friday, My darling May,, My brothers heart has been very bad. He must have a rest or...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/15:Saturday, My dear May, On Thursday Betty & I went to Waterloo station, to meet your Uncle Percy & Aunt & Margaret...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/16:Tuesday, Dear May, Thank you deeply for your letter. Always let me know exactly how my brother is. Please let me know if you ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/21:Wednesday, Dear May, I know you & Freddie won’t mind my telling you of little things that have helped me greatly. , ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/23:Monday , My darling May, How can I ever thank you & Freddie enough for all your love, & sweetness to my darling. Than...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/7:My darling May, I never wrote to thank you for those lovely lettuces & potatoes you sent me! I’ve just not been abl...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/15:My darling May, Every day I mean to write & thank you for your lovely present – the pears were so delicious & t...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/24:Darling May, Could you on the enclosed card put the address to the Dentist I had at Llandrindod if he is practicing in London...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/28:9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, Saturday, My darling May,, Betty came up a couple of day ago, meaning to spend two weeks in L...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/31:Wednesday, Dear May, Just after I posted to you came news Miss Greene was very bad. She Betty started off at once; Florence G...
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-Dec1919/45:Dec 15th 1919, Darling May,, Thank you for your beautiful gift of Butter – but I’m sure you can’t spare it ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/48:My dear May, I am sending you Aunt Betty’s letter which I have just got, Alice I think must be getting near the end. Pl...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/7:Tues day, London, Darling May,, Betty has asked me to send this letter on to you. I fear Alice is very bad. When I hear the e...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/9:Friday, Darling May, I had meant to wire to you as soon as I got news. Alice must be very bad as her sister Polly who is ill ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/12:Friday, Dearest May, I feel you were quite right not to go. Don’t trouble your dear heart about it. I’m sure it w...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/16:Wednesday, May dear,, I am enclosing you the letter which Betty has asked me to send on to you. I don’t know how you &...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/19:Saturday, My darling May, I send you a card I have just got from Betty & letters from her & Helen & Eva Greene. P...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/21:Monday, Darling May, I send you Eva Greene’s letter & Betty’s card. She says nothing of coming up to Town, so...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/33:Monday, Dearest May, I thought perhaps you would like to see what Ursie says about Mrs Molteno (your uncle Charley’s wi...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/3:My darling May, A friend from the Cape thinks she would like to go to Llandrindod in August. Don’t trouble to write a l...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/6:Sunday night, Dearest May, Betty came the day before yesterday Physically I never saw her looking so well, she has got much s...
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...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/40:Oak Hall, Tramway Terminus, Main Rd, Wynberg, My darling May, Its so beautiful to think you will soon be here. I am so anxiou...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/1:Dearest May, Thank you & Freddy for your letters. I do not think your charges at all too high. The pity is that so many p...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/48:9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, Tuesday, My darling May, I must write you a line to tell you that I paid a delightful little ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/64:9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, Wednesday, My darling May, I have enjoyed your honey so much, its been so good for my chest. ...

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Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.7:Llandrindod Wells, Wales, Sunday., My dear Ruth, Yes send me any poems you write & I'll tell you really what I think of t...
Olive Schreiner: Ruth Alexander MSC 26/2.1.8:Llandrindod Wells, Wales, Aug 22nd 191015, Dear Ruth, I think Solly's picture is sweet: - bursting with intelligence & li...
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Schreiner-Hemming Family BC 1080 A1.7/177:Wednesday, London, Darling Wynnie, I send you a letter from May Parker - the doctors wife at Llandrindod wrote me when Uncle ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold6/1907/33:Box 24, De Aar, Dec 9 / 07, Dear Mrs Murray, Thank you for sending Betty’s letter. Can you give j me her right address;...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/7:Box 24, De Aar, Feb 10 / 08, Dear Mrs Murray, I am so anxious to meet your brother Percy & hear a little about Natal affa...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold1/1908/59:De Aar, Oct 3rd 1908, Dear Mrs Murray, I was so sorry I was able to see so little of you just before j I left. I do hope they...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold4/1911/5:De Aar, April 21st 1911, Dear Mrs Murray, I was so glad to get a word from you. You don’t say how you are feeling. I ho...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box4/Fold4/1911/43:De Aar, Sep 6th 1911, Dear Mrs Murray, It was so nice to see your handwriting again have you any news of Betty’s moveme...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/30:Dear May, Thank you much for your letter. I am so glad Miss Hobhouse is coming to you. I thought now your mother was away she...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold2/1913/52:Union Castle Line, RMS Edinburgh Castle, Dear May, The flowers you & Kathleen put into my room are still quite fresh. I n...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold3/1914/32:Hotel Augusta Victoria , Bad Nauheim, June 8th 1914, My darling Lucy, I hope to hear soon that the operation has done you rea...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold4/Jan-June1915/3:Telephone: 3675 Kensington., Telegrams: Apartment, London., Kensington Palace Mansions., De Vere Gardens, W. , Dearest May, M...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold4/Jan-June1915/5:Telephone: 3675 Kensington., Telegrams: Apartment, London., Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel, De Vere Gardens, W., Mond...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box5/Fold4/Jan-June1915/7:Feb 10th 1915, I do hope you are not going to stay in Africa for another year. Wont you want to come & see May when she’...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/4:c/o Dr Parker, Llandrindod Wells, Wales., Tuesday, My dear old man, I got here yesterday after a most delightful journey. It ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/5:Wednesday, Trevaldwyn, Llandrindod Wells., Dear Betty, Here I am sitting in May’s pretty little drawing-room. I got her...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/6:c/o Dr Parker, Llandindod Wells, Wales., Saturday, Dear Fan, Wills letter told me that you had had a note from the boy in Fra...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/7:c/o Dr Parker, Llandindod Wells, Wales., Saturday, Thank you for your letter, dear. How little we thought this time last year...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/10:Dear Lucy, Would you send the enclosed to Betty. Read it first if you care as you may like to hear about May’s sweet li...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/11:Llandrindod Wells, Wales., Aug 9th 1915, My darling Alice, I have your letter. I am so glad you are better. I wonder if what ...
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-Dec1915/14:Llandrindod Wells, JAug 18th 1915, Thankyou, dear, much for your letter. You didn’t give me Mrs Greathead’s addre...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/15:Llandindod Wells, Monday, Dear, I hope you are all keeping quite better, & that your weekend was pleasant. I often think ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/18:Sunday, Dear Fan, Thank-you so for your nice long letter. Will tells me you are doing some work at Cavendish Sq which I am gl...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/19:Llandrindod Wells, Wales., Monday, Dear, Thanks for your card. I do hope you are now feeling quite well again. You seem so ha...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/21:Monday, Dear old Man, I don’t think I’m at all foolishly anxious about Zeps; but next time one comes I would be s...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/22:Dear, May got a wire this afternoon to say George was coming to say good bye tomorrow before he goes off to the Front. I do h...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/23:Llandrindod Wells, Thursday, Dear Fan, I am anxious about you all, foolishly no doubt if anything had gone wrong I should, I ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/24:Llandrindod Wells, Thursday , Dear Mrs Murray,, I have just said good bye to George, who has gone off to the station with May...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/25:Trevaldwyn, Llandrindod Wells., Dear Fan, It was good of you to write when I know you must have so many letters to send off e...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/26:Trevaldwyn, Llandrindod Wells., Tuesday, Dear Fan, I am thinking all the time of you & Will. You will I know write & ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/28:I am so sorry I have not seen Mrs Greathead. I may be going up to London soon. It has been so nice to be here with dear May. ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/32:papertorn, Dear Fan, I was thankful to have the news of the boy. But one always feels, don’t you, how many days have pa...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/33:Dear old Man, Has Ollie got one of these cigar cases? If one sends him a parcel is it pretty safe to reach him? Have most of ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/34:Llandrinpapertorn, Oct 22nd 1915, Dear Mrs Murray, It has been nice sometimes to have news of you all through May. You must b...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/35:2 Campden Hill Square, W. , Friday , My dear May , Thank you so much for your letter. The dining room must look very pretty &...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/37:2 Campden Hill Square, London, W, Nov 1st 1915, Dear I have left dear May’s delightful little home & am here. I do ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/49:30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, Kensington , London , Dec 26th 1915, Dear Betty , I think you & I should be a little near eac...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold1/July-Dec1915/50:Tuesday, Dear May, Thanks for letter & card. I suppose Miss Van Heerden didn’t know my address. Miss Hobhouse must ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold2/1916/10:Alexi, 31 The Park, Hampstead, London N, Dear May, Thankyou so much for your letter. I am indeed sorry to hear about your unc...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold2/1916/11:Alexi , 31 The Park , Hampstead , March 17th 1916, Dear Betty, I enclose two cuttings. Please let Mr Balmsforth see them., I ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold2/1916/49:Tuesday, Darling Betty,, I feel as if you were resting and hope you will stay on a little. I feel so happy about you when you...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold3/1917/3:19 Adam St Portman Sq, Saturday, Dear I would have been to see you, but I knew I shouldn’t find you in. I expect you ha...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold3/1917/28:Address Standard Bank, 10 Clements Lane, Lombard Street, London, 9 Por, Dec 3rd 1917, Dear Lucy,, A happy New Year to you all...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold4/1918/3:Dear Lucy, It’s half past eleven o’clock. Betty who has just returned from spending ten days at Parklands is sitt...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold4/1918/9:Darling Alice, What must you have thought of me that I didn’t write. But I’ve been so bad Alice I couldn’t....
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold4/1918/10:March 24th, Darling May, I thought this was your wedding day, but wasn’t quite sure. , Thank you for your wonderful pre...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold4/1918/13:Dear Kathleen, I must write a few words to you. I know how one feels to the little brother one grew up with. Always when I wa...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold4/1918/14:9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd , Sunday, My darling May, All my heart is folding you round with love & tenderness. I know...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box6/Fold4/1918/21:I wonder how the world goes with you two dear people, & my dearest Julie, & May & the grandchildren. How nice to ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/4:March 20th 1919, Darling May, I have given away all your cards but one, & hope they will be successful. Am I right in say...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/8:May 23rd 1919, My darling May, A very nice woman who has given me some heart massage (she’s very clever) wants to go fo...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/11:Private, 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, Friday, My darling May,, My brothers heart has been very bad. He must have a rest or...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/12:Dear I’m so glad to hear your Lucy is coming to London; it will be such a pleasure to see her, like a bit of you. Tomor...
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...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/15:Saturday, My dear May, On Thursday Betty & I went to Waterloo station, to meet your Uncle Percy & Aunt & Margaret...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/16:Tuesday, Dear May, Thank you deeply for your letter. Always let me know exactly how my brother is. Please let me know if you ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/21:Wednesday, Dear May, I know you & Freddie won’t mind my telling you of little things that have helped me greatly. , ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold1/Jan-July1919/23:Monday , My darling May, How can I ever thank you & Freddie enough for all your love, & sweetness to my darling. Than...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/7:My darling May, I never wrote to thank you for those lovely lettuces & potatoes you sent me! I’ve just not been abl...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/15:My darling May, Every day I mean to write & thank you for your lovely present – the pears were so delicious & t...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/24:Darling May, Could you on the enclosed card put the address to the Dentist I had at Llandrindod if he is practicing in London...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/28:9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, Saturday, My darling May,, Betty came up a couple of day ago, meaning to spend two weeks in L...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/31:Wednesday, Dear May, Just after I posted to you came news Miss Greene was very bad. She Betty started off at once; Florence G...
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-Dec1919/45:Dec 15th 1919, Darling May,, Thank you for your beautiful gift of Butter – but I’m sure you can’t spare it ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/47:Tuesday, My darling Betty, This will reach you on Xmas morning I hope. May the day be one free of pain for our darling, then ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold2/Aug-Dec1919/48:My dear May, I am sending you Aunt Betty’s letter which I have just got, Alice I think must be getting near the end. Pl...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/6:9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, Jan 13th 1920, Dear Mrs Murray , Betty is asked me to write to you as she feels so unable to....
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/7:Tues day, London, Darling May,, Betty has asked me to send this letter on to you. I fear Alice is very bad. When I hear the e...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/9:Friday, Darling May, I had meant to wire to you as soon as I got news. Alice must be very bad as her sister Polly who is ill ...
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-Feb1920/12:Friday, Dearest May, I feel you were quite right not to go. Don’t trouble your dear heart about it. I’m sure it w...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/16:Wednesday, May dear,, I am enclosing you the letter which Betty has asked me to send on to you. I don’t know how you &...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/19:Saturday, My darling May, I send you a card I have just got from Betty & letters from her & Helen & Eva Greene. P...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/21:Monday, Darling May, I send you Eva Greene’s letter & Betty’s card. She says nothing of coming up to Town, so...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/24:Dear,, I have your letter. I long to see you but want to be wherever you rest most. May enclosed these letters for you not kn...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold3/Jan-Feb1920/33:Monday, Dearest May, I thought perhaps you would like to see what Ursie says about Mrs Molteno (your uncle Charley’s wi...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/1:My own Betty, I don’t like your being so alone there. Are Helen & Polly still in their cottage? , I sent off the “...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/3:My darling May, A friend from the Cape thinks she would like to go to Llandrindod in August. Don’t trouble to write a l...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/5:Dear Mrs Murray, Will you please send the enclosed letter on to Margaret. I don’t know her address in East Africa, &...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/6:Sunday night, Dearest May, Betty came the day before yesterday Physically I never saw her looking so well, she has got much s...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/11:9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, Ma June 2nd 1920, My darling darling Lucy, I don’t think you could quite understand how...
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-Dec1920/18: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...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/21:Plumstead , but address c/o Standard Bank, Strand St, Cape Town, Sep 15th 1920, My darling Betty, I was not able to write las...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/26:Dear Kathleen, I have had a letter from Aunt Betty every week but she has not told me when Mrs Molteno & Margaret & a...
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-Dec1920/35:Oak Hall, Tramway Terminus, Wynberg, Sunday, My darling Betty, I got two letters from you from the Standard Bank this week, t...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/40:Oak Hall, Tramway Terminus, Main Rd, Wynberg, My darling May, Its so beautiful to think you will soon be here. I am so anxiou...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/42:Dear Kathleen, Thanks much for your letter. I have addressed letters to May & your mother to Miller’s Point. I hope...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box7/Fold4/Mar-Dec1920/46:Dec 8th 1920, My darling Betty, Mrs Murray has just been to see me, looking so beautiful & sweet. But so tired., Margaret...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/1:Dearest May, Thank you & Freddy for your letters. I do not think your charges at all too high. The pity is that so many p...
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/39:Llandrindodd Wells, Wales, My darling Alice so you are here after all! I have been hopelessly inquiring for you all over the ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/44:9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, Aug 4th 1918, Dear Mrs Murray, I’ve thought you might like to see this letter from my f...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/46:Parklands,, Shiere,, Nr Guildford, Sunday, Dear Bety, Did the chemist send a bottle of Powels Balsam of aniseed? I ordered it...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/48:9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, Tuesday, My darling May, I must write you a line to tell you that I paid a delightful little ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/49:Wednesday , My darling darling Alice, I hope getting letters doesn’t worry you, but I feel I must write to you just one...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold1/Dated/52:Oak Hall, Tram terminus, Wynburg, Monday, Dear Mrs Bolus, You don’t know what it meant to me to meet you. I know how bu...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/58:Kensington Place Mansions & Hotel,, De Vere Gardens, W., Dear Mrs Murray, It was a joy to see you & your dear charmin...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/64:9 Porchester Place, Edgware Rd, Wednesday, My darling May, I have enjoyed your honey so much, its been so good for my chest. ...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/73:Saturday morning , My darling Betty , I don’t know why I longed so to see you last night & felt such disappointment...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/87:Saturday night , Betty dearest still it rains & rains here! I’m so sorry it was so wet when May was with you., Ruth...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/88:Sandown Rd, Monday, Darling Betty, I have been here five days. Tomorrow I am returning to Ursie’s & then going to s...
Olive Schreiner BC16/Box 12/Fold1/Undated/46:[page/s missing], 2, Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel, De Vere Gardens, W., Telephone: 3675 Kensington., Telegram: Apar...