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Letter ReferenceHRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/55
ArchiveHarry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date30 June 1897
Address From31 Lower Belgrave Street, 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, 30 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:  31 Lower Belgrave St
2:  Chester Square S.W.
3:  30. June. 97
4: 
5:  Dear Mr Unwin,
6: 
7:  Thanks for your letter. Mrs Schreiner asks me to say that “Peter
8:  Halket” has not been sold to France, or any other country; nor have
9:  any of the ^her^ works been sold to France or Germany. “Dreams” and
10:  “The African Farm” have appeared in German, but none have been
11:  translated into French that she knows of. She hopes you’ll be able
12:  to conclude the proposed arrangement about “P. Halket”, and will
13:  be glad if you can sell the rights of translation of any of her books
14:  to any country. She has a cable from Sweden about “P. Halket”.
15: 
16:  She will be glad With regard to the Dutch edition of “P. Halket”,
17:  she will think the matter over and write to you later.
18: 
19:  Yours very truly,
20:  S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner
21: 


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