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Andre Murray

Andre Murray was a daughter of Schreiner’s friends A. Haldane and Mimmie or Minnie Murray who lived on the farm Portlock near Graaff-Reinet. The letters and cards to Andre Murray are part of a wider pattern of Schreiner befriending younger women, especially the daughters of friends (including May Murray Parker, Dorothy Von Moltke, Lucy Molteno). Andre Murray is clearly an example of this, perhaps as part of Schreiner’s attempts to awaken greater ambition and political awareness in the younger generation of women. Thus Schreiner writes to Andre Murray of the achievements of her nieces Ursula and Dot Schreiner, while in a very powerful 4 May 1913 letter which is all about writing she comments that writing should not be done for fame or fortune, but to be true to a strong urge to represent thoughts and feelings. Mostly Schreiner wrote short letters and later lots of postcards to Andre Murray when she removed to Europe, tantalising her with cultural titbits (architecture, churches, paintings) on the front of postcards. Throughout warmth and affection come across, and also that Schreiner greats her as a peer, as ‘your friend Olive Schreiner’.

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Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/20:9 Porchester Place, Edgeware Rd, Saturday , My dearest Andre, Thank you for your beautiful long letter. I was so glad, dear t... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/22:c/o Standard Bank , 10 Clements Lane , Lombard St, London ?E, Dec 3rd 1917, Darling Andre, As happy a Xmas to you all as is p... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/27:De Aar , Aug 9th 1912., Dear Andre, I wonder how you are all getting on: if you are still down at the lower farm or back at P... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/36:De Aar, May 7th 1913, My dear Andre, I am so glad to hear you are really better. With regard to writing. Your father is I thi... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/43:Address to De Aar as I am back on Thursday , Dear Andre, I am so sorry to hear you have been so ill. I hope you don't feel an... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/44:Mentone, Dec 22nd 13, Dear Andre, We are here in the ice & snow. It is the cold winter known Europe for many years. I am ... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/69:Dear Andre, Thank you for the pretty card & your letter Loving wishes for you all for a good happy new year. It will be l... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/80:Address , Standard Bank , Clements Lane, London , Jan 14 / 17, Dear, I am always thinking of you all & longing to have ne... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/81:Its such a long time since I had any news from any of you; but its all my fault because I'm so bad at writing! I'm going to w... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/82:I wonder if you are still at home or have gone back to college. Do write me one of your delightful long letters & tell me... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/83:30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, Kensington , London , Feb 8th 1916 , Thank you, dear, for your most interesting letter. I glad of... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/84:Dear Andre, I have just heard the news of dear Ian Benet's death. I wonder if you have gone back to College or are still at h... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/85:Dear Andre, Do write me one of your nice long letters & tell me all your news. Are you going to SA College? How is Kathie... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/86:Dear Andre, I hope all goes well with you. Send me a post card to say if you have news of your father if you have no time to ... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/87:I wish you could see this beautiful country. Its not so grand as our South Africa, I think there is nothing so grand in the w... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/88:Many thanks dear, for your nice letter. Do write to me sometimes & give me all the news, even if I can't write long lette... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/90:Thank you so much for your letter dear. Tell mother I'll write soon , Love to you all. , Olive Schreiner, This is one of the ... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/96:Dear Andre, This is Canterbury Cathedral which I motored to yesterday with some friend. Its lovely. I am going back to London... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/100:Thank you so much for your letter. This is a picture of Florence where I have been staying for two weeks. I am going to Mento... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/101:Dear Andre , Write me please, a nice letter & tell you me how you all are, I have been ill since I came to Florence &...

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Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/12:c/o Mrs Dr Scott, Birzana, Plumstead , Cape Town, Monday , My dear dear Friend, I was so glad to get your letter yesterday &... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/18:Address - 9 Porchester Place, Edgeware Rd, London, June 15th 1920, My darling Friend , Soon you will be losing your Andre, bu... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/20:9 Porchester Place, Edgeware Rd, Saturday , My dearest Andre, Thank you for your beautiful long letter. I was so glad, dear t... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/22:c/o Standard Bank , 10 Clements Lane , Lombard St, London ?E, Dec 3rd 1917, Darling Andre, As happy a Xmas to you all as is p... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/24:De Aar, April 28 '13, My dear dear friend, How long it seems since I had any kind of a talk with you. I've been very ill all ... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/25:9 Porchester Place , Edgeware Rd, Dec 5th 1919, Dear, dear Friend, My niece Lyndall Schreiner has married a Colonel Gregg who... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/27:De Aar , Aug 9th 1912., Dear Andre, I wonder how you are all getting on: if you are still down at the lower farm or back at P... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/31:London, April 10th 1917 , My darling friend, I hope you have got both my letters. Mails to the Cape seem so uncertain now. I ... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/36:De Aar, May 7th 1913, My dear Andre, I am so glad to hear you are really better. With regard to writing. Your father is I thi... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/39:June 27th 1911, Dear Mrs Murray, My trip to the Falls was too splendid, but I've been in bed ever since I came back with bron... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/43:Address to De Aar as I am back on Thursday , Dear Andre, I am so sorry to hear you have been so ill. I hope you don't feel an... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/44:Mentone, Dec 22nd 13, Dear Andre, We are here in the ice & snow. It is the cold winter known Europe for many years. I am ... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/46:Thursday , Dear Mrs Murray, I missed you so much when you were gone. It was nice to see you & Andre. Mr ?Mac Caly drove o... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/50:Somerset East , Friday , Dear Mrs Murray, I send you Minnie de Villiers letter about Lady Innes & Emily Solomon. If they ... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/53:(A Montessori Mother, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher) , I think this would be a book both you & Andre would read with interes... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/66:Dear Friend, Are Kathline & Bob now in Cape Town? Could you give me their addresses Perhaps they might some time be able ... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/67:Thanks for your letter. Please tell Andre I am staying at the Grand Hotel Muizenberg I will be glad to go & see Mrs ?Mill... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/69:Dear Andre, Thank you for the pretty card & your letter Loving wishes for you all for a good happy new year. It will be l... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/76:My dear, dear Friend, I wish I could see you I fear there's no chance of my coming to you, but if ever you are passing De Aar... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/84:Dear Andre, I have just heard the news of dear Ian Benet's death. I wonder if you have gone back to College or are still at h... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/85:Dear Andre, Do write me one of your nice long letters & tell me all your news. Are you going to SA College? How is Kathie... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/86:Dear Andre, I hope all goes well with you. Send me a post card to say if you have news of your father if you have no time to ... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/94:Dear Friend, I was so glad to get your letter & Andres this evening. They did make me long to see you all in your beautif... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/96:Dear Andre, This is Canterbury Cathedral which I motored to yesterday with some friend. Its lovely. I am going back to London... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/97:This is a lovely place buried in trees & beautiful woods. My brother Will is staying here too for treatment. , OS, Thank ... Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/101:Dear Andre , Write me please, a nice letter & tell you me how you all are, I have been ill since I came to Florence &...

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Olive Schreiner BC16/Box11/Fold2/Undated/55:Monday, Dear Laddie, Young Alfred Luscombe, who is engaged to my great friend Andre Murray, Haldane Murray’s daughter, ...