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Letter ReferenceHRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/53
ArchiveHarry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date21 June 1897
Address From61 Chester Square, Westminster, London
Address To
Who ToT. 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, 21 June 1897, 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 is by and from Olive Schreiner, with Cronwright-Schreiner acting as her amanuensis or secretary.

1:  61 Chester Square
2:  S.W.
3:  21st June. 1897
4: 
5:  Dear Mr Unwin,
6: 
7:  Mrs Schreiner asks me to ask you to arrange about the German
8:  translation of “Peter Halket”, as she is too unwell to attend to
9:  the matter herself. I enclose a couple of German letters. The Doctors
10:  have ordered her complete rest, and we are, in consequence, leaving
11:  almost at once for a some town on the South Coast.
12: 
13:  Yours very sincerely,
14:  S.C. Cronwright Schreiner
15: 


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