The Great Cory Library Fieldtrip! Blog 4, En Route

Saturday 19 July: We are at last en route, it’s been raining cats and dogs at Blog4Manchester airport, and phones have given up the ghost and handbags have busted, but at last we’re sat on the Manchester to Frankfurt flight. Much in mind, in spite of all the background noise of setting out to the airport and surviving its draconian security arrangements, is the prospect next weekend of a trip up Buffels Kop to the stone sarcophagus that is Olive Schreiner’s tomb. Howard Phillips, Professor of History at the U of Cape Town and Chair of the Van Riebeeck Society, has been busy trying to arrange an access route from the farmer – Dirkie – who owns the land around the erf that the tomb stands on. Originally, until the access problem arose, this was to have been a hike, but now it will be by what my Mac and iPad both persist in auto-correcting as a ‘Land Roger’. Schreiner in one of her letters described the wonderous view seen from the top of the Kop and the hum of birds and butterflies there. Having spent a Asblogs4good bit of my life transcribing and researching Schreiner’s letters and remaining manuscripts, it will be a strange experience to be in company of her mortal remains. This is from Frankfurt, or rather the third space of its airport…

 

 

 

 

 

Last updated: 19 July 2014


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