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Letter ReferenceHRC/CAT/OS/5a-xiv
ArchiveHarry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary TypePostcard
Letter Date30 November 1915
Address FromMaer Lake, Bude, Cornwall
Address ToCarbis Water, Cornwall
Who ToHavelock Ellis
Other VersionsDraznin 1992: 498
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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 postcard, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. The date has been derived from the postmark on this postcard and the address and addressee it was sent to are on its front. Schreiner stayed at Maer Lake in the last two weeks of November 1915.
1Am leaving for London today. The air chokes me here. I can’t breathe
2Address Care Alice Corthorn / 30 St Mary Abbotts Terrace
3Kensington
4.London W.
5
6I do hope you & Edith will feel stronger soon. We are having a dreary time
7
8Olive
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Notation
Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.