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Letter ReferenceHRC/CAT/OS/5b-xvii
ArchiveHarry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary TypePostcard
Letter Date25 January 1916
Address Fromna
Address ToRose Cottage, Carbis Water, Cornwall
Who ToHavelock Ellis
Other VersionsDraznin 1992: 500-1
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, 25 January 1916, 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 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.

1:  Thanks for the address of the book. Hodgson was very glad to get it. I
2:  have been very unfit; the weather here hot & quite abnormal. London
3:  seems getting darker & darker. “The city of Dreadful night”. Does
4:  Edith take Iodid of potassium, it helps me so. I hope you are both
5:  improving. Olive
6: 


Notation
Draznin's (1992) version of this postcard is in some respects different from our transcription.


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