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| Letter Reference | HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/16 |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 16 April 1891 |
| Address From | Matjesfontein, Western Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | T. Fisher Unwin |
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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 T. Fisher Unwin, 16 April 1891, 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.
1: Matjesfontein
2: April 16 / 91
3:
4: Dear Mr Unwin
5:
6: Thanks much for the two copies of Book. Please pay any money due to me
7: to Mr Ellis not sending it here direct, as just now my movements are
8: uncertain.
9:
10: How is it that Roberts Brothers does not give me a farthing for
11: advanced sheets, they are paying me just the same percentage that some
12: other American firms are kindly giving me, because they don’t feel
13: it right to publish my book & give me nothing.
14:
15: Did he give nothing for getting the proofs advance sheets! copy???
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17: Your cousin was married the other day to my friend’s sister. They
18: had a grand wedding. I was invited, but didn’t go of course I
19: ?don’t
20:
21: Yours sincerely
22: Olive Schreiner
23:
Notation
The 'two copies of book' referred to concerns Unwin's new edition of Dreams.
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