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| Letter Reference | HRC/UNCAT/OS-84 |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Sunday 14 February 1886 |
| Address From | 5 Sea View Terrace, West Hill Road, Bournemouth, Dorset |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Havelock Ellis |
| Other Versions | Draznin 1992: 401-2 |
The manuscript of this letter by Olive Schreiner belongs to the Archive referenced above; its ownership of the original should be acknowledged by referencing the letter as indicated: Copyright transcription: © Olive Schreiner Letters Project. This transcription can be freely used as long as copyright is acknowledged and it is referenced using the following citation: ‘Olive Schreiner to Havelock Ellis, 14 February 1886, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
Legend
The Project is grateful to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. This letter has been dated by reference to information written onto it by Ellis. Schreiner was resident at a number of addresses in Bournemouth from mid February to mid March 1886.
1: Sunday Eve
2:
3: I have been reading your religion paper. It has been sweet & restful
4: to me, quite a help. Other people wouldn’t understand it thought, it’s
5: just note thrown together, the connection not always clear, but it
6: seems such an expression of your sweet self to me tonight. All day I
7: had^sat^ here shivering in this great room while the rain poured outside.
8: This evening I went out. I got past the houses & walked through the
9: mud & sand among the gorse & pines, & there was a strange lurid wet
10: sunset I came home cold & weary
11:
12: ^but now I have read your paper I feel warmer. Your other self.^
13: Olive
14:
15: ^Please write to me when you feel in the mood Your letters are so much
16: to to me.^
17:
18: O.S.
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Notation
An Ellis religion paper cannot be traced although he had earlier published a relevant one on Hinton: Havelock Ellis (1881) 'James Hinton As a Religious Thinker' Modern Review July 1881, 2: 661-87. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.
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