Olive Schreiner Letters Online

Letter Reference	HRC/UNCAT/OS-123
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Friday 6 July 1888
Address From	Roseneath, Harpenden, Hertfordshire
Address To
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 443

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, 6 July 1888, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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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.

1:  Friday night
2: 
3:  Yes it is this Koverlipsky. Please if you have any work in the way of
4:  Russian translation ever in your hands think of Tchakoffsky Mrs Wilson
5:  also would be very glad to get any translation from the French to do.
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7:  I am working hard
8: 
9:  I am very satisfied with Ford.
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11:  You know what you will be at last is the most learned man in Europe I
12:  like Isabella’s letter.
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14:  I have no news I’ve only been out I once since you were here. Not
15:  spoken to a soul but Mrs Wilson Good night Harry. I’m going to
16:  London on Monday. Sorry you won’t be there. I’m going to the
17:  Richer by myself in the evening.
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19:  Olive
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Notation
A version of this letter is in Draznin (1992).