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Ursula Schreiner

Ursula Hester Schreiner (born 1892) was the younger of the two daughters of Will and Fan Schreiner. She started training as a doctor and then worked as a nurse during the First World War. It is not clear whether she completed her medical training although this seems unlikely in the wartime circumstances. She married a Dr Scott and they settled in Cape Town. Ursula’s family name was ‘Cuckoo’, and a number of the extant letters and cards from Schreiner to her are addressed thus. There are just twelve extant letters and cards, which is surprising as no letters to members of the Schreiner family found their way into the hands of Cronwright-Schreiner and his destructions. Most are birthday letters and cards or were sent on other ‘occasions’, such as for the New Year, and are warmly loving. A particularly charming birthday letter, replete with Schreiner’s kisses for Ursula, was written on 28 January 1898.
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