"South African writer Olive Schreiner loved Matjiesfontein and lived there from 1890 to 1892. She was one of the first people to see Logan's plans for the place. She wrote of these to a friend : "I have seen what James hopes to do with his Matjiesfontein and asked him to keep a house there for me." He did, and it was here that she wrote "Thoughts on South Africa," her many letters to Havelock Ellis and her missives to Cecil John Rhodes. She regularly dined at Logan's railway refreshment room, walked in the veld with a feeling of "wild exhilaration" as the sun rose and sat on a koppie near a bush now known as "Olive's tree."
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