"Thrown away 10 years of my life to prevent inevitable" Read the full letter
| Letter Reference | HRC/CAT/OS/4a-xii |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 16 October 1886 |
| Address From | 9 Blandford Square, Paddington, London |
| Address To | 98 Earlsbrook Road, Earlswood, Redhill, Surrey |
| Who To | Havelock Ellis |
| Other Versions | Draznin 1992: 422-3 |
| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| 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 an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner was resident in Blandford Square from mid October to mid December 1886.
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1Couldn’t come to my boy.
2
3Terrible day at the Old Baley.
4
5Come tomorrow if you can You know my brain has given way It is’t Mrs.
6 Weldon or Karl, it’s just the slow sure change that’s being going
7on snce that night at Eastbourn
8
9It’s so dreadful to be so young & watch your own brain dying I was
10quite mad last night
11
12Olive
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3Terrible day at the Old Baley.
4
5Come tomorrow if you can You know my brain has given way It is’t Mrs.
6 Weldon or Karl, it’s just the slow sure change that’s being going
7on snce that night at Eastbourn
8
9It’s so dreadful to be so young & watch your own brain dying I was
10quite mad last night
11
12Olive
13
14
Notation
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.