A Letter from Jack Cope to Ingrid Jonker

Here, from the small trove at the Gerricke Library, (more here and here) is a letter that my father wrote to Ingrid from the Cope family farm, Rudolf’s Hoek near Mooi River in Natal. It is dated 10 – 2- 65. It is especially interesting, to me, when he talks about writing.

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Three letters from Ingrid Jonker to Jack Cope

In my last post I told about the Ingrid Jonker papers at the Gerricke Library in Stellenbosch.

Here are three letters from Ingrid Jonker to my father Jack Cope,

Letter dated 27/7/64

Letter dated May 1965

Letter dated 28 June, 1965 – less than a month before her death on the 19th July.

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