Olive Schreiner Letters Online

Letter Reference	View HRC/ChristopherMorley/Misc/OS-FredericChapman/1
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	16 September 1886
Address From	The Convent, Harrow, London
Address To
Who To	Frederic Chapman
Other Versions

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 Frederic Chapman, 16 September 1886, 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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1:  The Convent
2:  Harrow
3:  Sep 16 / 86.
4: 
5:  Dear Mr Chapman
6: 
7:  R. Pears-all Smith the American tells me he sent a letter to your care.
8:  Could you kindly forward it to me, ^here.^ And would you kindly let me
9:  know how many copy^ies^ of my book you have still been unable to dispose of.
10: 
11:  Yours faithfully
12:  Olive Schreiner
13: 

Notation
The Schreiner book referred to is The Story of An African Farm.

Letter Reference	View HRC/ChristopherMorley/Misc/OS-FredericChapman/2
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	2 November 1886
Address From	9 Blandford Square, Paddington, London
Address To
Who To	Frederic Chapman
Other Versions

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1:  9 Blandford Sq
2:  Nov 2 / 86
3: 
4:  Dear Mr Chapman
5: 
6:  Your letter has just been forwarded to me from the Convent. I hope to
7:  reply or call to see you in a couple of days.
8: 
9:  Yours sincerely
10:  Olive Schreiner

Letter Reference	View HRC/HavelockEllis/Misc/OS-HavelockEllisMisc/1
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	April 1889
Address From	London
Address To
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions

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, April 1889, 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 has been dated using information on a letter from Arthur Symons which it is written on the back of. Schreiner was in London immediately before moving to Knaphill in mid April 1889. Arthur Wing Pinero’s ‘Sweet Lavender’ was on at Terry’s Theatre in 1888.

1:  I am going down to
2:  Knap-Hill
3:  Nr Woking
4:  Surrey
5:  on Saturday Alice will be there on till Monday afternoon. Can you come
6:  on Monday morning, & help me decide about the house. I long to see you.
7:  I am afraid that place is damp I’ve had such rheumatism since
8:  yesterday that right arm can hardly hold pen. You must come to
9:  Brookwood station & walk up to Knap-hill about 1 mile & a ½.
10: 
11:  My cousin Emile has written a nice letter.
12: 
13:  I’m very pl glad Symons liked being here. I thought I was so tired
14:  he would be bored. I’m always tired now. Are you in love that you
15:  suddenly look so handsome. If you would rather come when I am alone
16:  come on Tuesday & perhaps we can go Hind head for the day they say
17:  it’s lovely.
18: 

Notation
The letter from Arthur Symons that Schreiner's letter in on the back of is as follows:

‘10 Arundel Street
Strand, W.C.
April 25th

Dear Miss Schreiner

Is there any chance of seeing you again while I am up? I want, among other things, to tell you about “Sweet Lavender” which I saw at Terry’s last night, & about Pater & his exquisite little cat Nedly, whom I have been seeing to-day. I have Saturday after noon free: should I find you at home then, & not busy or engaged?

I should like to know what you think of the enclosed poem, by Mathilde Blind.

Will you send me just a line?

Very truly yours
Arthur Symons’

Mathilde Blind’s poems appeared in book form: Mathilde Blind (1889) The Ascent of Man: with other poems London: Chatto & Windus.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-i
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	25 February 1884
Address From	Edinburgh Hotel, St Leonards, East Sussex
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 12-13; Rive 1987: 35; Draznin 1992: 34-5

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 February 1884, 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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1:  Edinburgh Hotel
2:  St. Leonards-on-Sea
3:  Feb 25 / 84
4: 
5:  My dear Sir,
6: 
7:  On my return from a visit to London I found your letter which my
8:  publishers had forwarded here. Had I received it sooner I should have
9:  earlier written to tell you of the pleasure your expression of
10:  sympathy with the little book “An African Farm” gave me. Thank you
11:  for having written.
12: 
13:  The book was unreadable written on an Upcountry farm in the Karroo, &
14:  it gives me ^much^ pleasure to think that other hearts find it real. I
15:  have been now almost three years in England but I long always for that
16:  old life.
17: 
18:  I agree with you in objecting to Bonaparte: he is drawn closely after
19:  life, but in hard straight lines with-out shading^,^ & is not artistic^,^
20:  nor idealized enough. I had no definite idea when I wrote the story
21:  that I should ever come to England or publish it. It was just one of
22:  the many little stories I had been making ever since I was five years
23:  old, & its kind reception at the hands of the critics here surprised
24:  me much. & a letter such as yours I value much indeed.
25: 
26:  There is too much moralising in the story, but when one is leading an
27:  absolutely solitary life one is apt to use one’s work as Gregory
28:  used his letters, as an out-let for all one’s superfluous feelings^,^
29:  without asking too closely whether they can or can not be artistically
30:  expressed there.
31: 
32:  I intend bringing out another book towards the close of the year.
33: 
34:  Thank you again for your letter which has given me such pleasure
35: 
36:  I am, dear Sir,
37:  Yours sincerely
38:  Olive Schreiner
39: 

Notation
The 'another book' Schreiner refers to is From Man to Man. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Rive's (1987) version is in minor respects incorrect. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) version is also incorrect in minor ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-ii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	16 March 1884
Address From	Edinburgh Hotel, St Leonards, East Sussex
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 13; Draznin 1992: 36-8

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, 16 March 1884, 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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1:  Edinburgh Hotel
2:  St. Leonards-on-Sea
3:  March 16 / 84.
4: 
5:  Dear Sir
6: 
7:  Thankyou very much for your letter. I shall so like to see that
8:  article when you are kind enough to send it me. I shall be be
9:  remaining at St. Leonards till the weather gets warmer.
10: 
11:  Yes, it would be impossible to return to the old life: the outward
12:  circumstances might be recalled, but the hope that made it beautiful
13:  would never come back when once the outside world had been known, &
14:  found empty.
15: 
16:  I have not read any of Hardy’s novels, but am sending for the
17:  “Westminster Rev:” to read your article. What you say in the
18:  letter about “the melodramatic & farcial element” is very true.
19:  When I said that Bonaparte was not “idealized” enough perhaps I
20:  was using the word in a sense of my own; what I meant was that he was
21:  painted roughly from the outside (just as I might off-hand des-cribe
22:  the people who sat at dinner with me this evening) not sympathetically
23:  from the inside showing the how & the why of his being the manner of
24:  sinner he was. I should have entered into him showed his many sides,
25:  not only the one superficial side that was ridiculous; then he would
26:  have been a real human creature to love or to hate, & not farcial at all.
27: 
28:  Is it very long since you left Australia? Do you not miss the
29:  starlight nights when one can be out all night, I miss them so. It is
30:  so hard to think shut up in a room.
31: 
32:  I am,
33:  Yours very sincerely,
34:  Olive Schreiner
35: 
36:  The “Miss” is right. I do not think I shall be leaving this till
37:  May when I return to town.
38: 

Notation
For Ellis's article on Hardy, see: Havelock Ellis (1883) 'Thomas Hardy's Novels' Westminster Review no.119, 1883: 334-64. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) version is incorrect in major ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-iii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	28 March 1884
Address From	Edinburgh Hotel, St Leonards, East Sussex
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 14; Rive 1987: 35-6; Draznin 1992: 38-40

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, 28 March 1884, 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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1:  Edinburgh Hotel
2:  March 28 / 84
3: 
4:  My dear Mr. Ellis,
5: 
6:  I have just finished reading your article in the Westminster, & I have
7:  read “A pair of blue eyes.” I think your criticism very adequate &
8:  just. I shall read “Far from the madding crowd” & then I shall
9:  better be able to make up my mind as to whether I like Hardy much or
10:  not. Now I hardly know – there seems to me a certain shallowness &
11:  un-real-ness about his work – no, that’s putting it too strongly;
12:  it seems to me as though he was only fingering his characters with his
13:  hands, not pressing them up against him till he felt their hearts beat.
14: 
15:  Thank you for your letter. I liked the last sheet about your
16:  Australian life. Yes, our African sky gives one the same sense of
17:  perfect freedom & wild exhilaration; sometimes one feels as though,
18:  for no reason that could be given, one were almost in an ecstasy of
19:  happiness when one goes out alone. Here one never is alone.
20: 
21:  The book that the Stranger gives to Waldo was intended to be
22:  Spencer’s “First Principles.” When I was up in Basuto Land with
23:  an old Aunt & cousin, one stormy, rainy night, there was a knock at
24:  the door; they were afraid to go & open it so I went. There was a
25:  stranger there like Waldos Stranger exactly. There was no house within
26:  fifty miles so he slept there: the next morning he talked with me for
27:  a little while & after that I saw him twice for half an hour: & then I
28:  never saw him again. He lent me Spencer’s “First Principles.” I
29:  always think that when Christianity burst on the dark Roman world it
30:  was ?about what that book was to me. I was in such complete, blank
31:  atheism. I did not even believe in my own nature, in any right or
32:  wrong, or certainty. I can still feel myself lying before the fire to
33:  read it. I had only three days. I always hoped I should see him again
34:  some day & tell him how he had an had helped me - Just after I had
35:  written that part of the story where he comes in I heard that he had
36:  killed himself. I am not sorry he did it if life was too sore for him;
37:  but I cannot bear to think of all he suffered before he did it; – &
38:  he helped me so. I always feel as though his grave was^ere^ one of my
39:  possessions.
40: 
41:  If you write any other articles for reviews & do not mind telling me
42:  ^of them,^ I should be glad; it would interest me to read them very much.
43: 
44:  Have you read a little play called “Nora” by Ibsen, translated
45:  from the Swedish by my Frances Lord?? It is a most wonderful little
46:  work. I should like it to be reviewed by some able reviewer that it
47:  might be more widely read, but perhaps you would not like it. It shows
48:  some sides of woman’s nature that are not often spoken of, & that
49:  some people do not believe exist – but they do. I think
50: 
51:  Yours sincerely
52:  Olive Schreiner
53: 
54:  ^It is very funny that in the book that I am revising now there is one
55:  character who reminds me somewhat of Knight in his relation to Elfride.
56:  The likeness is not strong, still it is there. He is a man who when
57:  the woman he loves confesses to him turns away from her; but my woman
58:  tells him that which he could never have known if she had not told him^
59: 
60:  ^& he yet turns away from her.^
61: 

Notation
Ellis's article is: Havelock Ellis (1883) 'Thomas Hardy's Novels' Westminster Review no.119, 1883: 334-64. The Stranger and Waldo appear in The Story of An African Farm. The character in 'the book I am now revising' is Bertie in From Man to Man. The Knight and Elfride reference is to Hardy's Pair of Blue Eyes. The books referred to are: Thomas Hardy (1877) A Pair of Blue Eyes London: Henry King; Thomas Hardy (1875) Far From the Madding Crowd London: Smith, Elder & Co; Herbert Spencer (1862) First Principles London: Williams & Norgate; Henrik Ibsen (1882) Nora (later A Doll’s House) (trans Henrietta Frances Lord) London: Giffith, Farran & Co. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Rive's (1987) version omits part of the letter and is in a number of other respects incorrect. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) version is incorrect in major ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-iv
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	8 April 1884
Address From	Edinburgh Hotel, St Leonards, East Sussex
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 14-15; Rive 1987: 36-7; Draznin 1992: 42-4

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, 8 April 1884, 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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1:  Edinburgh Hotel
2:  April 8 / 84
3: 
4:  My dear Mr. Ellis
5: 
6:  It happens that the book I have been reading the last few days has
7:  been James Hinton’s “Life & Letters” I have loved the man
8:  him-self. I like to know that saying of his that you tell me of. In
9:  his feeling for woman he is like Jesus but like few other men. I have
10:  had a feeling while I have been reading the book that the writer,
11:  without meaning to be untrue is not quite showing the real man: your
12:  letter of this evening tells me that I was right. I look forward to
13:  seeing the book you talk of: will it be ready soon?
14: 
15:  Thank you for letting me see those sonnets. The first three express
16:  what has also been my experience; but sometimes I let the joy be
17:  overclouded by letting my own little personal life come in. Your
18:  sonnets & I think something in your letters help me. “Arabella” is
19:  a sweet little poem. & strikes one as being sincere. The last four
20:  lines I like better than the other ten. They are very strong.
21: 
22:  Thursday.
23: 
24:  I am not able to write very much at a time & could not finish my
25:  letter the other day. This morning I came across your Sonnet in
26:  “Today” “Sophia Perovskaia”. I am glad you feel sympathy with
27:  socialism.
28: 
29:  You ask me whether Spencer is to me what he was. If one has a broken
30:  leg & a doctor sets it; when once it is set one may be said to have no
31:  more need of the doctor, never the-less one always walks on his leg. I
32:  think that is how it is with ^regard to^ myself & Herbert Spencer. I
33:  have read all his works once, some three & four times, now I read him
34:  no more. He helped me to believe in a unity underlying all nature;
35:  that was a great thing, but he has nothing else to give me now.
36: 
37:  I have read Straus’s “Old Faith & New,” but that was lately. I
38:  suppose you have read his life of Jesus? It had a rather strange
39:  effect upon me; it made me love Jesus so much. I never cried over the
40:  crucifixion till I read Straus’s cold dispassionate criticism ^of^
41:  that poor loving human soul that had been so tender to other, left
42:  there to face death alone. I am glad those women went after him. I
43:  believe Mary Magdalene stood close to the cross where the blood of his
44:  feet dropped down on her.
45: 
46:  With regard to Nora. I think Ibsen does see the other side of the
47:  question, but in a book which is a work of art & not a mere
48:  philosophical dessertation it is not always possible to show all the
49:  sides. I have a sense of something wanting in the book, but I do not
50:  see how he could have supplied it. In the ideal condition for which we
51:  look men & women will walk close, hand in hand, but now the fight has
52:  often^est^ to be fought out alone by both. I think men suffer as much as
53:  women from the falseness of the relations. Helmer’s life lost as
54:  much as Nora’s did through the fact that they never lived really
55:  together.
56: 
57:  I have not got “Far from the madding crowd” yet; but I have been
58:  reading C. Brontë’s Villette. I think it splendid.
59: 
60:  Yours sincerely,
61:  Olive Schreiner
62: 
63:  We are having beautiful weather here. I went to Ecclesbourne Glen this
64:  afternoon & basked in the sun. Have you ever been there?
65: 

Notation
Ellis's sonnets were not published as a set until 1925, although some of them appeared contemporaneously in journals and magazines. 'Sophia Perovskaia' is in Ellis's Sonnets With Folk Songs. The books referred to are: Henrik Ibsen (1882) Nora (later A Doll’s House) (trans Henrietta Frances Lord) London: Giffith, Farran & Co; Thomas Hardy (1875) Far From the Madding Crowd London: Smith, Elder & Co; Havelock Ellis (1925) Sonnets With Folk Songs From the Spanish Waltham St Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press; Ellice Hopkins (1878) Life and Letters of James Hinton London: Kegan Paul; David Strauss (1835-5) Life of Jesus (2 vols, trans George Eliot) London: Williams & Norgate; Ernest Renan (1864) Life of Jesus London: Trubner & Co; Charlotte Bronte (1853) Villette London: Smith, Elder & Co. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Rive's (1987) version omits part of the letter and is in a number of other respects incorrect. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) version is incorrect in major ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-v
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	19 April 1884
Address From	Edinburgh Hotel, St Leonards, East Sussex
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 15-16; Rive 1987: 37-9; Draznin 1992: 44-5

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, 19 April 1884, 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. The address this letter was sent to is provided by an associated envelope.

1:  Edinburgh Hotel
2:  April 19 / 84.
3: 
4:  My dear Mr. Ellis
5: 
6:  That extract from Mr. Hinton’s letter I liked very much; though I
7:  could not quite understand it I could fill in. James Hinton’s life
8:  has been a help to me. Sometimes I get an almost despairing feeling,
9:  that woman will have to save woman alone, – & yet I feel that to be
10:  impossible. Strength comes when I see one man’s heart that has seen
11:  these things, & burnt over them. He has chimed in with the thought &
12:  feelings that are just now dominant in my life. I shall like to read
13:  that article of yours upon him.
14: 
15:  The book I am revising now is the story of a woman, a simple,
16:  child-like woman, that goes down, down. I wish I wish I had more power;
17:  I would put it all into this book; I would write so that no one who
18:  read it should ever forget it. You will find many artistic faults, but
19:  I think you will sympathize with it.
20: 
21:  Thank you for tellingl me about “Arabella” Your sonnet is much
22:  more beautiful to me now, much. When I first came to England I was
23:  nursing in a Hospital for a little time, & I had such a beautiful girl.
24:  She was almost dying of inflammation of the lungs. A little thrill of
25:  pleasure used to run through me every time I had to touch her or do
26:  anything for her, & she used to open her sweet eyes, just like two
27:  stars, & look at me. I don’t know if I should have liked your sonnet
28:  quite so much but for that. That is the best of writing what is true;
29:  other lives are sure to answer back to it. I wonder if your girl
30:  looked like mine
31: 
32:  Strauss’s life of Jesus is very different from Renan’s, I think
33:  better; though I like I Renan. I shall be glad when his life of his
34:  sister is published. It will be the record of a true relation between
35:  a man & a woman
36: 
37:  I love Shelly, & there is another man whom I love in that same
38:  personal way, Hein¬rich Heine. I personify myself with him. I know
39:  how & why he wrote every line that he did write. There is more depth &
40:  passion in one of his sneers, more quivering ?reflecting ^tenderness^
41:  veiled under it, than in the out-cries of half the world. I feel that
42:  I owe a debt of personal gratitude to the girl who comforted him in
43:  his “Mattress grave”.
44: 
45:  I have not the same personal feeling for Hinton that you have, who
46:  know so much more of him than I can from that life; but one thing that
47:  draws me to him very much is his fear of feeling: that comes out so
48:  clearly in the extract you sent me. Some people dare not feel fully
49:  – all life must be a long self-repression.
50: 
51:  I have never seen that picture that you mention. I have always thought
52:  that she stood so. How else could she stand.
53: 
54:  If you know of any very good book will you please tell me of it. I got
55:  down ten last time, & of them all only Hinton’s life was a real book.
56:  I want scientific reading^:^ my mind needs it just now.
57: 
58:  I like to write to you
59: 
60:  Yours sincerely,
61:  Olive Schreiner
62: 
63:  May I, please, copy your poem “Arabella” & send it to a friend of
64:  mine. She will like it so much.
65: 

Notation
'The book I am revising now' is From Man to Man. Ellis's 'Sophia Perovskaia' is in his Sonnets With Folk Songs. His sonnets were not published as a set until 1925, although some of them appeared contemporaneously in journals and magazines; see Havelock Ellis (1925) Sonnets With Folk Songs From the Spanish Waltham St Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press. The books referred to are: David Strauss (1835-5) Life of Jesus (2 vols, trans George Eliot) London: Williams & Norgate; Ernest Renan (1864) Life of Jesus London: Trubner & Co. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Rive's (1987) version omits part of the letter and is in a number of other respects incorrect. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) version is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-vi
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	2 May 1884
Address From	Edinburgh Hotel, St Leonards, East Sussex
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 17-19; Rive 1987: 39-41; Draznin 1992: 46-8

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1:  Edinburgh Hotel
2:  Ap May 2nd 1884
3: 
4:  My dear Mr. Ellis
5: 
6:  Heine is not understood, & I almost doubt whether anything one could
7:  do would cause him to be better understood. He belongs to his own,
8:  like Emerson. One might cause him to be more read (& that would be
9:  something) but the real man, the infinitely tender, burning,
10:  passionate heart will be known only to a few – it must be heart to
11:  heart.
12: 
13:  I have been reading that little book you lent me all the afternoon. I
14:  like it, & I like it more the more I read it, & when I re-read a page
15:  or two I like it better than at first. It is true, & it expresses what
16:  is in our hearts, ours of today. I must get Whitman & read him. I have
17:  read nothing of his yet. One evening a friend began to read him aloud
18:  to me, but I was in a wicked mood & began to laugh: I made fun of ^him,^
19:  it, & made them all laugh so that there was no more reading. I have
20:  sent for him to-day.
21: 
22:  It was at the Royal Infirmary at Edinburgh that I nursed for a little
23:  while, & saw my beautiful girl. Then I was taken ill. When I got
24:  ?fluen better I went to the Woman’s Hospital in Endel St in London, &
25:  nursed there for five days, & then I got inflammation of the lungs, ^&^
26:  had to go to Ventnor. When I came back I began attending the lectures
27:  at the Woman’s Medical School, the second lecture I went to I got my
28:  feet wet & sat in wet boots & got congestion of the lungs. I am very
29:  strong & well now, but I have made up my mind that scribbling will be
30:  my only work in life.
31: 
32:  Yes, my little glimps of nursing life was very sweet to me I am glad I
33:  had it though it was so short. The dream of my life always was to be a
34:  doctor; I can’t remember a time when I was so small that it was not
35:  there in my heart. I used to dissect ostriches, & sheeps’ hearts &
36:  livers, & almost the first book I ever bought myself was an elementary
37:  physiology. I don’t like to talk of my old dream even now, my heart is
38:  still tender over it. It seems to me that a doctor’s is the most
39:  perfect of all lives, it satisfies the craving to know, & also the
40:  craving to serve. A nurse’s life is sweet, but not so perfect.
41: 
42:  Thank you for those papers you sent me. I think I should like to join
43:  that society, though, like you, I have not much faith in them
44:  societies. One old woman sitting in her bed room alone reading her
45:  bible is sincere, but six old women at a “class meeting” make humbugs
46:  – very often. Ideally nothing can full be more perfect than the aims
47:  of that Progressive Society. I like the “New Life,” especially the
48:  clause on the necessity of combining physical with mental labour.
49: 
50:  My feeling about Socialism is exactly yours. I sympathize with it, but
51:  when I see the works & aims of the men who are working for it in
52:  London my heart sinks. What will it benefitt us to seize away the
53:  money from the rich? At the same moment that the greedy hands are
54:  seizing it there will pass over with it the disease of which the rich
55:  are dying, the selfishness, the hardness of heart, the greed for the
56:  material good. What we want is more love & more sympathy Does it ever
57:  strike you, it often does me, fo how within the sixteen miles that
58:  make London lie all the materials for heaven on earth, if only some
59:  thing could come suddenly & touch our hearts one night; there would be
60:  no-body sad, no-body lonely: every aching head with a hand on it;
61:  every miserable old maid let out of her drawingroom & her old life
62:  blood flowing; every wailing little child hushed in somebody’s arms &
63:  making them warm: no-body hungry & nobody untaught, the prisons
64:  emptied & the back slums cleaned, everybody looking with loving eyes
65:  at the world about them. That would be heaven, & it only wants a
66:  little change of heart. I haven’t faith in anything that promises to
67:  raise us by purely material means.
68: 
69:  I am glad you are so busy, you must be happy.
70: 
71:  Thank you for telling me about that new book of Romane’s. I think you
72:  are wrong in saying that scientific reading is not of much use. It is.
73:  To touch & handle would be far better, but it is better than nothing.
74:  You don’t know what a gap would be left in my life if all the ^good^
75:  ?tragaghumites I have had from scientific books were taken out of it
76:  (making the word scientific cover everything from Darwin & Carl Vogt,
77:  to little primers on Heat & Light). I think that even the mere reading
78:  helps one to the feeling that truth is before all things, & to have a
79:  kind of love for things in their naked simplicity; I think that the
80:  tendency of science is always to awaken these two feelings; don’t you?
81: 
82:  I want to tell you what my feeling is about woman, but I can’t tonight
83:  because I would have too much to say. I have just got a letter I
84:  should like to show you. It is from a woman whose heart is being
85:  slowly broken, & the man who is doing it doesn’t know & doesn’t
86:  realize what he is doing. Why can’t we men & women come nearer each
87:  other & help each other, & not kill eachother’s souls & blight each
88:  other’s lives^.^ for unreadable There is no need why it should be so.
89: 
90:  I am coming up to live in London next week. My address will be 5
91:  Harrington Rd. South Kensington. After next Thursday. I shall like to
92:  know more of what Hinton thought, & of what you think. The question of
93:  woman’s having the vote, & independences & education, is only part of
94:  the question, there lies something deeper.
95: 
96:  Good bye.
97:  Olive Schreiner
98: 
99:  I love what you say about feeling a woman’s heart throbbing in you.
100: 

Notation
‘That little book’ is Edward Carpenter’s (1885) Towards Democracy Manchester: John Heywood. The other books referred to are: Walt Whitman (1855) Leaves of Grass New York: Brooklyn; George Romanes (1883) Mental Evolution in Animals London: Kegen Paul, Tench & Co. Which of Carl Vogt’s many publications Schreiner might be referring to cannot be established. Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Rive’s (1987) version is in a number of respects incorrect. Cronwright-Schreiner’s (1924) version is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-vii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	12 May 1884
Address From	7 Pelham Street, Kensington, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 19; Draznin 1992: 49

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, 12 May 1884, 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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1:  17 Pelham Street
2:  South Kensington
3:  May 12 / 84
4: 
5:  My dear Mr. Ellis,
6: 
7:  I have not got your letter. I found the House at 5 Harrington Rd. in a
8:  terrible condition & all the people drunk. The woman seized hold of me
9:  & would not let me have my luggage removed till I had paid her 30 /-,
10:  though I had only been 5 minutes in the house. I am quite sure they
11:  will have torn up any letters that came for me. I am very much
12:  troubled about it. I hope there was nothing in Hinton’s hand-writing
13:  in it ^(your letter)^ I am going to the house this morning to ask, but I
14:  know it will be fruitless. I don’t know in which part of London I
15:  shall settle. Until Friday this will be my new address, & I will let
16:  you know the new one.
17: 
18:  Olive Schreiner
19: 
20:  P.S. What a splendid fellow Carpenter must be. I have just been
21:  reading his article in “Today” It expresses what I feel so exactly
22:  that I seem to feel as if I had written myself. What kind of man is
23:  her? I think
24: 

Notation
Schreiner has mistakenly given her address as 17, instead of 7, Pelham Street. The reference is to Edward Carpenter's (1884) 'England?s Ideal' To-Day May 1884. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects differs from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) version is incorrect in minor ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-viii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	12 May 1884
Address From	7 Pelham Street, Kensington, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 49-50

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, 12 May 1884, 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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1:  7 Pelham St.
2:  South Kensington
3:  May 1112 / 84
4: 
5:  Dear Mr Ellis
6: 
7:  I have been to the place; I cannyot get the letter. I am very sorry
8:  about it
9: 
10:  Yours sincerely,
11:  Olive Schreiner
12: 

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

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1b-xii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Wednesday 14 May 1884
Address From	7 Pelham Street, Kensington, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 19; Draznin 1992: 51-2

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, 14 May 1884, 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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1:  7 Pelham St
2:  Wednesday After
3: 
4:  [line torn away] ?letters this morning., but not the Harrington Rd one.
5:  Please write all that was in it over again.
6: 
7:  I shall like so much to go on Sunday, & will be glad if you will call
8:  for me.
9: 
10:  I’m sorry to hear anything that isn’t quite beautiful [line torn away]
11: 
12:  but don’t you think there must always be some sense of pain in
13:  learning to know more of people whom you have known only through their
14:  books? I think so.
15: 
16:  I went to St. James’s Hall last night. Every fibre in my being revolts
17:  against old Bradlaugh, & I wanted to like him. (This has nothing to do
18:  with what I said on the other page, it reads as though it had!)
19: 
20:  I shall like very much to see Mr. Hinton’s sister-in-law
21: 
22:  ^Yours sincerely,^
23:  Olive Schreiner
24: 
25:  I shan’t leave this till Friday, & perhaps I shan’t have succeeded in
26:  finding quiet rooms by that time, quiet is so hard to get in London.
27: 

Notation
Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. The short extract in Cronwright-Schreiner (1924) is also incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1b-xiii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	November 1884
Address From	Hastings, East Sussex
Address To
Who To	Fred Schreiner
Other Versions

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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 note to Fred Schreiner is written on the back of a letter from Roden Noel to Ellis which Ellis had sent on to Olive Schreiner; this was returned enclosed in another letter Schreiner sent to Ellis on 3 November 1884 thanking him for passing these comments on, thus enabling dating. Schreiner lived at a number of addresses in Hastings between mid October 1884 and the end of April 1885.

1:  Please send both this by unreadable ^back^ unreadable & please send my
2:  big brown box too, Dadda.
3:  Good night
4:  Olive
5: 

Notation
Roden Noel's scrawled part-letter comments 'What a magnificent book you recommended me in the African Farm! O it is wonderful. Who, the foul fiend, wrote it or a woman? But it is too awfully sad, & has (for the moment) made me disbelieve everything - it makes me remember -- was not Lyndall quite right to choose that free life after her own partner? That’s what I should recommend instead of the polygamy of Hinton. Who wants & will or can maintain a dozen women?...'.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-ix
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Friday 16 May 1884
Address From	7 Pelham Street, Kensington, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 19-20; Draznin 1992: 52-3

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1:  7 Pelham St
2:  South Kensington
3:  Friday
4: 
5:  I shall be at home all Sunday Afternoon so if you come at any time it
6:  will do. I am cannot travel by the Underground so we will have to
7:  start rather early.
8: 
9:  Thank you for the sonnets I will say what I want to say about them
10:  when you come. Is the fourth one from a woman to a man or from a man
11:  to a man? It is more beautiful in the latter case.
12: 
13:  I have been in such heaviness with my work today, & I have just made
14:  up my mind I must tear up & leave out a large bit. I have been so long
15:  in making up my mind.
16: 
17:  Yes, isn’t it beautiful how grateful those women are for little acts
18:  of tenderness. Ach, if you only handle their babies kindly how
19:  grateful ^& bright^ they look! Some of those hospital nurses are so
20:  unkind & rough with them. I wish I was back at my hospital work, the
21:  brain works better if the hands work too.
22: 
23:  I have been to the Brompton Oratory this evening & enjoyed the quiet &
24:  the music. I got a dark corner where I could kneel down.
25: 
26:  Thank you for your letter, but I am still sorry about the other one.
27: 
28:  I am so tired that I am writing everything upside down.
29: 
30:  Good night,
31:  Olive Schreiner
32: 
33:  PS.
34:  I shall be staying here till next Th Friday then I think I shall go
35:  back to St. Leonards, or to some country place.
36:  OS.
37: 

Notation
Ellis's sonnets were not published as a set until 1925, although some of them appeared contemporaneously in journals and magazines; see Havelock Ellis (1925) Sonnets With Folk Songs From the Spanish Waltham St Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press. Schreiner's 'I am so tired that I am writing everything upside down' comment is because she had accidently turned the sheet of paper upside down to write on it. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) short extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-x
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Tuesday 20 May 1884
Address From	7 Pelham Street, Kensington, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 20; Draznin 1992: 56

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1:  7 Pelham St
2:  Tuesday
3:  May 20 / 84
4: 
5:  My dear Mr. Ellis,
6: 
7:  I enjoyed going with you to that lecture so much. Thank ^you^ for coming
8:  for me. If you are not too busy & do not feel it would be a waste of I
9:  time I should be glad if you could sometimes come & see me. It would
10:  be a help to me.
11: 
12:  I got another letter about Hinton this morning, from the same friend.
13:  I can’t help feeling that she didn’t understand Hinton, & that the
14:  other women of whom she writes did not understand him. I should so
15:  like to show you her letters, but I think she might not like it. If
16:  ^she^ is right, I shall be sorry.
17: 
18:  I have made up my mind not to leave Town just yet. I shall remain here
19:  till Friday, then my address will be 32 Fitzroy Sq St., Fitzroy Square.
20: 
21:  Good night.
22:  Olive Schreiner
23: 
24:  That bus took me up to Holloway on Sunday night.
25: 

Notation
Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner’s (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xi
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Thursday 21 May 1884
Address From	7 Pelham Street, Kensington, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 20; Draznin 1992: 57-8

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, 21 May 1884, 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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1:  7 Pelham St.
2:  Thursday
3: 
4:  Dear Mr. Ellis,
5: 
6:  I have so much to say about Hinton & Hinton’s views (I have some
7:  questions to ask too) that I shan’t try to say it to-day. Thank you
8:  much for your letter & for the proofs.
9: 
10:  I send you a little bit of my friends first letter. I would like to
11:  send you all of both. In the second she tells me of a lady (of several,
12:  but of one especially,) whom Hinton knew when she was a widow & whom
13:  he tired to make love him, & of how she burnt his letters & would
14:  never have anything more to do with him, &c, &c.
15: 
16:  The writer of the letter I send you is a Freethinker, & freer in ther
17:  her thoughts on social & moral questions than on any other. Though
18:  married happily herself she does not believe in formal marriage, but
19:  ^only^ in a marriage of mutual consent &c, &c. So you see the ordinary
20:  narrow prejudices will not have acted in her case.
21: 
22:  Hinton says much in those proofs that I have thought & felt but never
23:  seen expressed before; but, I think, I see what he does not see, &
24:  where his theory [part of page torn away]
25: 
26:  human nature & in woman nature in Hinton. There is something to me
27:  infinitely touching in that last little note you read me of
28: 
29:  [part of page torn away] I am going to see Herbert Spencer on Sunday week.
30: 
31:  Did Hinton aply the same measure to man & to woman? Would he have been
32:  satisfied if his wife had had six “spiritual husbands”? I mean this
33:  really as a question.
34: 
35:  I am writing this lying down; I hope you can make it out.
36: 
37:  ^Please send back the enclosed.^
38: 
39:  ^Have just got your note. Sunday suits me very nicely.^
40: 
41: 

Notation
The ‘little bit of letter’ enclosed is no longer attached. Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner’s (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	23 May 1884
Address From	32 Fitzroy Street, Camden, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 58-9

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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 has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner was resident in Fitzroy Street in late May and June 1884.

1:  [part of page missing] I shall be at home all day on Sunday. Come as
2:  early as you like. I shall want to see you.
3: 
4:  I have heard that my sister is dead: she died suddenly like my father.
5: 
6:  Olive Schreiner
7: 
8: 

Notation
The first part of this letter has been torn away. Draznin's (1992) version of the letter is in some respects different from our transcription.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xiii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Monday 26 May 1884
Address From	32 Fitzroy Street, Camden, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 20-1; Draznin 1992: 59-60

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1:  32 Fitzroy St
2:  Monday.
3: 
4:  Dear Mr. Ellis,
5: 
6:  I enclose my subscription to the Progressive & 2d for a hymn hook.
7:  Last night after you went I read Miss Jones’s des-cription. I think
8:  I should like her very much. But Mrs. Hinton ins the woman I love.
9: 
10:  Will you some day show me Hinton likeness? You must come to see me
11:  whenever you care to. If you tell me what time you are coming I will
12:  stay in.
13: 
14:  I wish I was really your sister; it would be very nice.
15: 
16:  Don’t think of, & dwell, upon Hinton too much. I think it is not
17:  well for any of us to allow another another personality to submerge in
18:  anyway our own. ^Do you?^
19: 
20:  I have been walking about in the quiet part of Regent’s-park all the
21:  morning.
22: 
23:  Olive Schreiner
24: 
25:  I have just now got the note you sent to 7 Pelham St. There is some
26:  evil fate ^at^ work with your
27: 
28:  ^letters.^
29: 

Notation
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xiv
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Wednesday 28 May 1884
Address From	32 Fitzroy Street, Camden, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 21; Draznin 1992: 61

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, 28 May 1884, 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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1:  Wednes-day.
2: 
3:  Come tomorrow afternoon if you can because on Friday I may have other
4:  visitors & then we can’t talk so well, & I have much I want to say &
5:  to hear.
6: 
7:  Yes, but you do let Hinton submerge you; & you mustn’t. It’s not
8:  good for you.
9: 
10:  Good bye.
11:  Olive Schreiner
12: 
13:  Any time will do.
14: 
15:  I shall be in after four & all the evening. I shall be glad if Miss
16:  Jones calls. I shall not mention her having written that paper. I will
17:  give it you when you come. O.S
18: 

Notation
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract includes material from a different letter and is also incorrect in other ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xv
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Friday 30 May 1884
Address From	32 Fitzroy Street, Camden, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 21; Draznin 1992: 62

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, 30 May 1884, 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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1:  Friday.
2: 
3:  I think when Mrs. Hinton say that we can “cure license not by
4:  restriction but by greater freedom” she is giving expression to one of
5:  Hinton’s quite truest ideas. The very fact of freedom takes away from
6:  the morbid desire which restriction has created.
7: 
8:  I only say what I do about Hinton because I see you take the other
9:  side. It’s my nature to be “kopach” (that’s a Cape Dutch word which
10:  means that when you turn a horse’s head to one side of the road its
11:  bound to go & see what’s on the other) I don’t think it’s quite a bad
12:  quality, at least it always makes one stick up for the absent. I love
13:  Hinton & I feel sympathy with him, when he’s most wrong I feel it most.
14:  But why must I say I love him when you love him?
15: 
16:  What you say about jealousy is exactly what I feel. When we rise to
17:  the last, highest, white-heat of love all selfishness dies away. “And
18:  if I love thee, what is that to thee?” &, what do I ask of thee?
19: 
20:  I am going to find the quiet part of the park now. It’s so nice. One
21:  day when you have time come & I’ll show it you, please.
22: 
23:  It’s just because I know & feel you are so unlike Hinton in many ways
24:  that I don’t want your your you to be drawn out of your own I natural
25:  line of growth by him. Can you understand what I ?fee mean?
26: 
27:  I like Witman very much & I like those little essays.
28: 
29:  O.S
30: 
31:  Won If I am not able to go to Herbert Spencer on Sunday & send you a
32:  post card on Sat evening, will you be able to call for me on Sunday
33:  afternoon to go to the Progressive? Don’t if it will be troubling you
34:  at all.
35: 

Notation
‘And if I love thee, what is that to thee?’ is a Goethe quotation. Draznin’s (1992) version is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner’s (1924) extract includes material from a different letter and is also incorrect in other ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xvi
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Thursday 5 June 1884
Address From	32 Fitzroy Street, Camden, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 62-3

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, 5 June 1884, 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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1:  Thursday.
2: 
3:  As soon as you had gone out I thought of my likeness. Please send it
4:  me. I hope you won’t take cold I have been reading that article & am
5:  much interested in it.
6: 
7:  Olive Schreiner
8: 

Notation
The 'that article' mentioned cannot be traced. A version of this letter is in Draznin (1992).

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xvii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Monday 9 June 1884
Address From	32 Fitzroy Street, Camden, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 63

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, 9 June 1884, 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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1:  32 Fitzroy St
2:  Monday.
3: 
4:  I didn’t give you Eleanor Marx’s note. I am just starting off to
5:  see my fashionable old lady, & to hear what she had for dinner.
6: 
7:  I enjoyed this morning so. I don’t feel that draw-back quite so much
8:  now, at least I didn’t this morning.
9: 
10:  Olive
11: 

Notation
A version of this letter is in Draznin (1992).

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xviii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Wednesday 11 June 1884
Address From	32 Fitzroy Street, Camden, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 22; Draznin 1992: 64-5

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, 11 June 1884, 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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1:  32 Fitzroy St
2:  Wednesday.
3: 
4:  You aren’t angry with me because of what I said on Monday, are you?
5:  You mustn’t be.
6: 
7:  I have so much to say but I am too stupid to say it. I have been lying
8:  down since yesterday afternoon with a heavy chest cold. I don’t know
9:  when I shall get to see Miss Jones. You aren’t angry with me, are you?
10: 
11:  O.S
12: 

Notation
A version of this letter is in Draznin (1992). Cronwright-Schreiner’s (1924) version is incorrect in minor ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xix
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Thursday 12 June 1884
Address From	32 Fitzroy Street, Camden, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 22; Draznin 1992: 65

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, 12 June 1884, 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 has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner was resident in Fitzroy Street in late May and June 1884.

1:  Thursday
2: 
3:  I will like to come on Monday if I am well enough. I am glad you are
4:  not angry. I hope you will enjoy going to Oxford. I am still in bed, &
5:  so stupid
6: 
7:  Please let Miss Jones know I can’t come just now
8: 
9:  Olive
10: 

Notation
A version of thise letter is in Draznin (1992). Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) version is incorrect in minor ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xx
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Sunday 15 June 1884
Address From	32 Fitzroy Street, Camden, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 22; Draznin 1992: 65-6

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, 15 June 1884, 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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1:  Sunday Morning.
2: 
3:  I am so sorry you have been ill. You & I seem to have had the same
4:  thing. It’s very funny. On Wednesday Thursday night my head got so bad
5:  throbbed as though it was going to burst. I thought Eleanor Marx was
6:  my sister Ettie.
7: 
8:  I hope you are quite better & that today’s journey will do you good.
9:  If my head is better I shall like to go tomorrow evening; if we don’t
10:  feel well enough we can just stay with eachother. My chest & throat
11:  are better now, it is only my head that is so bad.
12: 
13:  Dr. Donkin says it is nervous prostration that makes my head so. I am
14:  leaving on Friday week. Let us try to see as much of eachother before
15:  we ^I^ go as we can.
16: 
17:  Yes, I would be better for some mechanical labour; but when I am in
18:  the country I will work & think from morning till night.
19: 
20:  Miss Jones came to see me just after I wrote to you. I was sorry I was
21:  too stupid to talk.
22: 
23:  If you feel tired tomorrow evening to can just sit in the armchair & rest.
24: 
25:  Olive Schreiner
26: 

Notation
Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner’s (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xxi
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Thursday 19 June 1884
Address From	32 Fitzroy Street, Camden, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 66

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, 19 June 1884, 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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1:  32 Fitzroy St
2:  Thursday Eve.
3: 
4:  I have been waiting for you as you don’t come I must go down to the
5:  Oxford where Dr. Aveling said he would wait for us at a quarter to
6:  eight. You told me any evening this week would do & Dr. Aveling
7:  can’t take me & Eleanor.
8: 
9:  I think the opera you mention will be good. I should like to go Friday
10:  night if you care to.
11: 
12:  Come & unreadable see me on Sat evening if you like, but not if you
13:  have any other work. My head is still bad. I hope yours keeps all
14:  right.
15: 
16:  Olive
17: 

Notation
Drazninss (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xxii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	19 June 1884
Address From	32 Fitzroy Street, Camden, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 67

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, 19 June 1884, 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 has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner was resident in Fitzroy Street from mid May to mid June 1884.

1:  I sent one note to your home address & send this to the Hospital. Are
2:  you going to the opera this tomorrow evening (Friday) I am making no
3:  engagements this week because I thought you would be coming this
4:  evening & perhaps tomorrow. Come on Sat evening if you care to & have
5:  nothing else to do, but let me know.
6: 
7:  I think the Flying Dutchman will be very good.
8: 
9:  My head is too bad to scribble much & I am going down to the Oxford
10:  where Dr. Aveling is waiting for us.
11: 
12:  O.S
13: 

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

Letter Reference	View HRC/UNCAT/OS-57
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Sunday 12 July 1885
Address From	9 Blandford Square, Paddington, London
Address To
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 68-9

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, 12 July 1885, 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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1:  Sunday
2: 
3:  Yesterday was all holiday you are having & you need to be so helped &
4:  made strong for your work, & I don’t think I helped you. When they
5:  were reading Witman & you lay on the ground I looked at you
6: 
7:  It was sweet to want to come to ^with^ me to London Bridge but our Louie
8:  can’t go about alone like I can.
9: 
10:  Will you please let your coming to see me be entirely governed by what
11:  is good for the exam.
12: 
13:  I am so proud that you love me so much, it is so sweet to me. Can I be
14:  glad without thinking I am selfish. You love me so beautifully.
15: 
16:  Olive
17: 
18:  I got a Pall Mall.
19: 

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

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xxiii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Tuesday 24 June 1884
Address From	32 Fitzroy Street, Camden, London
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 69

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, 24 June 1884, 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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1:  Tuesday.
2: 
3:  I should like ?ber to come with you tomorrow evening, & shall be here
4:  if you come at four. I was sorry after I got back thinking you
5:  hadn’t had any supper, & it would be so late when you got home.
6: 
7:  I am somewhat worried today about other people’s affairs. I should
8:  like to lie down & sleep only I’ve no time.
9: 
10:  I like that article on women very much.
11: 
12:  I’m glad Miss Jones is coming this afternoon
13: 
14:  O. Schreiner
15: 

Notation
'That article on women' cannot be established, but some time later Ellis published a relevant review: Havelock Ellis (1887) 'The Changing Status of Women' Westminster Review October 1887. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xxiv
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	25 June 1884
Address From	32 Fitzroy Street, Camden, London
Address To
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 69-70

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 June 1884, 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. Schreiner was resident in Fitzroy Street in late May and June 1884. This note was not posted but left for Ellis with Schreiner's landlady or in a public area for him to collect, with just his name written on the associated envelope. In the absence of other information, dating it has followed Draznin (1992), who has done so by relating its content to other letters in the Olive Schreiner/Havelock Ellis correspondence.

1:  I have to go out to to see an American lady. I will be back by four.
2:  If I should be a few minutes late wait for me. Eh?
3: 

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

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xxv
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Friday 27 June 1884
Address From	Holly Cottage, Mount Pleasant, Aspley Guise, Woburn, Bedfordshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 22-3; Draznin 1992: 70-1

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, 27 June 1884, 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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1:  Holly Cottage
2:  Friday Night
3: 
4:  I got here this afternoon at half past six. I think the place will
5:  suit me. It is very quiet.
6: 
7:  Thank you for your letter.
8: 
9:  We have ?Mon only one post a a day here. So I do not know when you
10:  will get this.
11: 
12:  I am glad your mother & sister did not dislike me. I am very glad I
13:  went to see them. I can picture them ^your life^ so much better (I
14:  didn’t change that word I only scratched it out!)
15: 
16:  I feel a bit sad this evening, but that is only because the rain is
17:  beating on the trees outside & the place is strange to me. I think it
18:  is rather a sad place, but I shall work here.
19: 
20:  I have much I could say, but nothing I could write about. Write to me
21:  when you have nothing better to I do & it doesn’t interfere with
22:  your work. You have to work for an exam, havenot you?
23: 
24:  I feel very grateful to you; you are very good, & very tender, & ^very^
25:  true. Tomorrow I shall begin my reading & writing & have something
26:  rational to write about to you.
27: 
28:  Olive Schreiner
29: 
30:  If you write to me don’t put Woburn Sands, but just Woburn on the
31:  letter. I think I shall I give you the full address again because I
32:  fancy I didn’t give it right & it won’t find me if a letter
33:  hasn’t the full address
34: 
35:  Holly Cottage
36:  Mount Pleasant
37:  Aspley Guise
38:  Woburn
39:  Beds.
40: 
41:  I should be sorry to lose one of your letters. Olive.
42: 

Notation
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xxvi
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Saturday 28 June 1884
Address From	Holly Cottage, Mount Pleasant, Aspley Guise, Woburn, Bedfordshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 23; Rive 1987: 42-3; Draznin 1992: 71-2

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, 28 June 1884, 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 has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner was resident in Apsley Guide in late June and early July 1884.

1:  Saturday Morning
2: 
3:  How good it was of you to think so of me on Thursday night at two
4:  o’clock & to tell me so.
5: 
6:  The letter I sent you last night wasn’t real quite. I wanted to
7:  write otherwise, but I wouldn’t let myself.
8: 
9:  I am not well today. I have not been off the sofa since this morning.
10:  As soon as I stand up my head swims so, but all the time I lie there I
11:  have just the thought of you, & some-how I^i^t is pleasant. I think I
12:  have a heavy feverish cold, I hope it is not the place.
13: 
14:  Did you tell Louie all about me? Please do. I hope you feel happy &
15:  are able to work well. You mustn’t tell her or any one things that I
16:  tell you about other people but things that I are about myself alone,
17:  are in your hands, you can do what you like with them, & I shall think
18:  it right. I have such a strong feeling for Louie. When she put her arm
19:  round me on the sofa, I wanted to to cuddle ^close^ up to her, but I was
20:  ashamed. I liked it. I have such an odd feeling ^for her.^ You know when
21:  I tell you people have loved me or any thing of that kind you must not
22:  tell any one. Love that has been given you is too sacred a thing to be
23:  talked of to anyone (don’t you think so,) except just to the person
24:  who seems ^is like^ part of you & who will feel it as you do.
25: 
26:  Will you please tell me little things about your self, about your work,
27:  & every thing like that. Is your finger quite better?
28: 
29:  Please tell our Louie every thing.
30: 
31:  I am so bad, I can’t write better than this today my head goes round
32:  & round. Whad did you think of that little story in the Mag?
33: 
34:  I want to do so much work. You don’t know how I am much better
35:  mentally since I knew you. I ought to work now.
36: 
37:  Olive
38: 
39:  It may be I shall be too ill in the next few days to write to you, but
40:  you can write still.
41: 

Notation
'That little story in the Mag' is likely to be one of the allegories originally published in the New College Magazine. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Rive's (1987) version omits part of the letter and is in a number of other respects incorrect. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xxvii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Sunday 29 June 1884
Address From	Holly Cottage, Mount Pleasant, Aspley Guise, Woburn, Bedfordshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 23-4; Rive 1987: 43; Draznin 1992: 73-5, 76-7

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, 29 June 1884, 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 has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to.

1:  Holly Cottage
2:  Sunday evening
3: 
4:  I am a bit better this evening. I have been reading Heine. Isn’t it
5:  odd how when you sympathize with a any one in the main you sympathize
6:  with them in the little tiny things too. Now, Heine’s hatred to
7:  Wellington is so delicious to me. I never found anyone who could quite
8:  sympathize with my loathing for that man.
9: 
10:  I have read almost the whole vol. of Galton like it very much, ^because^
11:  it is suggestive, but he generalizes from quite insufficient data, it
12:  is ludicru [wordspace] some times. Didn’t it strike you so? I don’t
13:  know when a book has interested me more. I used to try & teach myself
14:  the multiplication table when I was small, & I couldn’t remember it,
15:  & I used to cry & pray about it. At last once (I don’t think it was
16:  in an instant but in a few days) I saw it. It is like a stair or a
17:  sloping plank & the figures on it in different shads
18:  (six-times-six-is-thirty-six, is pure, dazzling white) & now I never
19:  forget it I always see that. I have often wondered if other people saw
20:  figures in the same way. It isn’t so clear now as it used to be.
21: 
22:  I wish you had told me more about what you used to do & think when you
23:  were in Australia. I can’t tell everything intuitively! & I rather
24:  like to hear.
25: 
26:  Writing is not so nice as talking. When you talk you know it is for
27:  one ear only, when you write you feel as if it might not be so, & the
28:  sweetness is gone. Do you not feel so too? I am very much strong
29: 
30:  This place doesn’t suit me at all. I want to find a place that is
31:  not low & damp. If I go Derbyshire I think I shall feel glorious like
32:  I used to in the karroo. My mind is so full of thoughts that want
33:  artistic expression it is almost painful I must go where I can work.
34:  If I go to Derbyshire, & you felt you cared to come into the country a
35:  bit would that be too far for you to come? It is much more beautiful
36:  than here & it would do you more good. I fancy you must be like me &
37:  need stimulating air. Why we thought so strongly & brightly in the far
38:  away countrys had to do with other things except solitude.
39: 
40:  Don’t think too much of Hinton. Your nobler, stronger, many
41:  sided-self must not be crushed by him, or rather I should say warped,
42:  for it will not be crushed.
43: 
44:  Don’t trouble to read that MS. of mine till you have quite time &
45:  nothing else to do. The doctor there is my beau-ideal of a man. Do you
46:  love him a little?
47: 
48:  I had a letter from Mr. Norman this morning, & because I had not heard
49:  from any one else since I came here I was very glad to get it. I have
50:  not heard from my brother for fourteen days except one line. Mr.
51:  Norman’s letter was ^only^ about some books he was going to send me.
52: 
53:  I still see always that thing that happened in the bus. Is it not
54:  strange that it should be so vivid?
55: 
56:  Good night. I am going to bed now. I hope you had a nice evening at
57:  the Browning society. With You know I have a feeling that if you ever
58:  really care about ^for^ a woman it will be a woman some^thing^ like that
59:  Lily in New Rush, only she will have a more animal nature, & she will
60:  crush you out ^completely^ ?powerfully ^mentally & spiritually. Don’t
61:  you think so.^
62: 
63:  Good-night.
64:  O.S
65: 
66:  I wonder if you went to the Progressive this evening. It seems so long
67:  ago since Herbert Spencer & last Sunday. Months & months seem to have
68:  passed since then. I wish I was dead.
69: 
70:  ^When you think of any book it would be good for me to read please, if
71:  it doesn’t trouble your put it down, & I will put down any book I
72:  think of that I would like you to read. Did you tell me you you had
73:  not read Mill’s Logic? I wonder if you have now got on so far that
74:  it would not be of any help to you.^
75: 

Notation
'That MS. of mine' refers to Schreiner's unfinished and largely destroyed novel 'New Rush', with the doctor being a character in it. The books referred to are: Heinrich Heine (1880) English Fragments Edinburgh: R. Grant & Son. Francis Galton (1883) Inquiries Into Human Faculty London: J.M. Dent & Co. John Stuart Mill (1843) System of Logic London: Parker. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is different in some respects from our transcription. Rive's (1987) version omits part of the letter and is in a number of other respects incorrect. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xxviii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Wednesday 2 July 1884
Address From	Holly Cottage, Mount Pleasant, Aspley Guise, Woburn, Bedfordshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 77-8

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, 2 July 1884, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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 letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. This letter has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner was resident in Apsley Guide in late June and early July 1884.

1:  Wednesday ^Afternoon^
2: 
3:  I got the letter you wrote on Sunday yesterday morning. I haven’t
4:  been well enough to answer it.
5: 
6:  This morning I got the note you wrote on Monday evening, & Louie’s.
7: 
8:  I have so much I want to say & I don’t know how to say it with my
9:  head like this.
10: 
11:  I have been quite quiet & happy in spirit since I got your letter
12:  yesterday morning. I am sorry I wrote you that note, but since it was
13:  a great help & comfort to me you won’t mind.
14: 
15:  You were right not to stay longer on Thurs-day. A few moments longer
16:  or shorter & you would have had to go all the same.
17: 
18:  Will you let me write & arrange for your going to see Philip Marston.
19:  I should like it so much.
20: 
21:  Isn’t this stupid! I try I feel half asleep. Chapman has written
22:  saying how much he wants to have my book. I got the letter this
23:  morning. When I get to Derbyshire I shall work away & be as jolly as
24:  possible.
25: 
26:  I haven’t been reading Heine or anything the last two days.
27: 
28:  Olive
29: 
30:  I know there was something I wanted so much to say, & I can’t think
31:  of it.
32: 
33:  Olive
34: 

Notation
Drazninss (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xxix
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Thursday 3 July 1884
Address From	Holly Cottage, Mount Pleasant, Aspley Guise, Woburn, Bedfordshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 25-6; Rive 1987: 44; Draznin 1992: 78-9

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, 3 July 1884, 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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1:  Thursday.
2: 
3:  Thankyou. I would like to see your diary so much. I have a kind of
4:  journal, but that is mainly of events, not of thoughts & feelings.
5: 
6:  I’m ^no^to a bit afraid now. You do comfort me.
7: 
8:  I am just the same in body but it’s only the place, I mean the house
9:  & its position more than the place generally Did I ever tell you how
10:  my chest first got bad. I was four days quite without food, &
11:  travelling all the time; I had nothing but a little cold water ^all
12:  that time.^ I had no money to buy food. When I ate the first mouthful
13:  at the end of the time, I got this horrible agony in my chest, & bad
14:  to rush out & for weeks I never lie down night or day. I suffocated if
15:  I even leaned back. Ever since that if I get to a place that is close,
16:  & damp & hot, it comes back.
17: 
18:  I have been to many doctors, some say it is an affection of the heart
19:  some say it is asthma of a very peculiar kind. They all say they have
20:  never seen a case just like it, & I don’t like to tell them how it
21:  began. Some how one can’t go back into the past without blaming
22:  those that are dearest to one. & it is better to let the past dead
23:  bury its dead.^eh?^ I have not been able to go for any walks. Twice I
24:  have been for a little way & yesterday I walked up & down before the
25:  door. You wouldn’t know me if you were to see me; I look so funny,
26:  my face ^is^ such a dark red with the blood in my head.
27: 
28:  There is no need to be anxious about me. I shall be better when I get
29:  to a fresher breezier place.
30: 
31:  You will perhaps like to see some of the reviews of S.A.F. so I send
32:  you some. Send them back because they are my Dadda’s. I’m sorry I
33:  didn’t keep any. It would be rather amusing after many years – if
34:  I live so long – to look at them.
35: 
36:  You say I must tell you what I am doing, but I don’t do anything
37:  except walk about my room & try to breathe & lie down on my bed & try
38:  to breathe. I don’t think it would do for me to stay here long I
39:  feel as though if I did I should stay here altogether. [one side of the
40:  page has been torn off here]
41: 
42:  feel no passion. The passion is there, but something stronger
43:  over-rides it.
44: 
45:  I wish you could have had what you needed in Australia.
46: 
47:  I never used to want to be good. I used to want to know, & to be, & to
48:  do. Now I want to be good too. It is this time of pain that has done
49:  it. It has broken my spirit. I am much more pitiful & tender than I
50:  used to be. I love every thing that can feel. You will see the
51:  difference in any work I do now. Do you think it is for the worse or
52:  the better?
53: 
54:  I am glad you told Louie. I was afraid you wouldn’t & it would make
55:  you untrue. ^Please work very^ Love hard. & don’t let me trouble you.
56: 
57:  You know I’m not good at all. It’s because I've never told you any
58:  of the mean little things about myself that you I think I am perhaps
59:  better than you.
60: 
61:  I have much I want to tell you.
62: 
63:  You must say Aspley on Apsley.
64:  Good bye.
65:  Olive
66: 
67:  You must say just what you think about New Rush, & about every thing
68:  connected with me.
69: 
70:  You must not be anxious about me I shall soon be better.
71: 
72:  Olive
73: 

Notation
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is different in some respects from our transcription. Rive's (1987) version omits part of the letter and is in a number of other respects incorrect. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xxx
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Friday 4 July 1884
Address From	Aspley Guise, Woburn, Bedfordshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 26-7; Draznin 1992: 79-80

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, 4 July 1884, 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 has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to.

1:  Aspley Guise
2:  Friday
3: 
4:  Henry you are spoiling me by being so good to me.
5: 
6:  I can’t write because my bead is too bad. I have neuralgia which
7:  contracts my one eye. Will you tell me the name of a good head doctor,
8:  a specialist
9: 
10:  I have been lying all the afternoon talking to you in my mind I hope
11:  you will go in for the exam at the end of the month I should like it.
12:  I do not see that writing to me wil take much out of you if you say
13:  what comes first. Yes, it will be good for me that you write as much
14:  as you can. Your letters cool & strengthen me. Some day when you are
15:  in need of help I will help you. Send me that diary, please.
16: 
17:  I don’t think you are good in the common way when I say good I mean
18:  good to me. And by ‘good” generally I mean unselfish. I don’t
19:  know if I care for you much but somehow my m (no, I won't say that) I
20:  care so much about ach, I won’t say any thing of that.
21: 
22:  I shall prize being allowed to see that diary. I will show you my
23:  journal when I am with you some day. You wouldn’t be able to
24:  understand it alone. When I come to something wrong I put it into such
25:  words that one can’t understand. How close we are to each other.
26: 
27:  You would be sorry if you saw me because my head is very bad my eye is
28:  all drawn up, it has been for two day.
29: 
30:  Yes, it would spoil our relationship I feel like you do.
31: 
32:  I used always to be calculating. Now feeling comes in a flood &
33:  carries me away. You must help me to be calculating We must be strong.
34:  Tell me about what you feel physically & every whay way.
35: 
36:  Good night the other part of me.
37:  Olive
38: 
39:  ^Henry I can’t look at my papers yet.^
40: 

Notation
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract includes material from a different letter and is also incorrect in other ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xxxiHRC/CAT/OS/1a-xxxiii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Sunday 6 July 1884
Address From	Aspley Guise, Woburn, Bedfordshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 27; Rive 1987: 44-5; Draznin 1992: 80-1

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, 6 July 1884, 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 has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to.

1:  Aspley Guise
2:  Sun-day
3: 
4:  Yes, you must write to me everyday, when you want, & then let a week
5:  or ten days go without writing when you want not. If I feel wanting a
6:  letter badly I will write & ask you for one. And when I want a little
7:  love, expressed love, I will write & ask for that too. Sometimes I can
8:  do without it but some-times I need it.
9: 
10:  My address in Derbyshire will be c/o Mrs. ^Job^ Walker
11:  Bole Hill
12:  near Wirksworth.
13: 
14:  I would like to have your critical judgment of my mind or rather of my
15:  work, which is really me.
16: 
17:  What did you think of New Rush. You haven’t told me, & I won’t
18:  tell you what I think of it till you have. Do you think it would be
19:  right of me to publish it? I think not.
20: 
21:  I will like to see the Indian Review.
22: 
23:  Henry, there are some things you have said in your letter that are so
24:  sweet to me, they keep breaking into my mind so sweetly.
25: 
26:  When will I have the diary?
27: 
28:  I can’t write many things that I would say.
29: 
30:  After reading your article about Hinton last night I thought about him,
31:  & at last I am coming to a true critical judgment. I will Good bye
32:  till tomorrow. Olive
33: 
34:  I treasure up all those things you said to me though I don’t say
35:  anything about them.
36: 
37:  Henry, I am going to lie down on my little bed in the corner.
38: 

Notation
The Ellis publications referred to are: Havelock Ellis (1884) 'Hinton?s Later Thought' Mind July 1884; and (1884) 'Recent English Fiction' Indian Review September 1884. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is different in some respects from our transcription, as is Rive's (1987). The extract in Cronwright-Schreiner (1924) includes material from a different letter and is also incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xxxiii-a
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	7 July 1884
Address From	Holly Cottage, Mount Pleasant, Aspley Guise, Woburn, Bedfordshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Rive 1987: 44-5; Draznin 1992: 81

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, 7 July 1884, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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 letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. This letter has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner was resident in Apsley Guide in late June and early July 1884. The beginning and end of the letter are missing. Draznin (1992) places it as part of Schreiner's letter to Ellis of 6 July 1884, while we follow the archival order because paper and ink variations support this.

1:  [top of page torn away] One reason why I am so bad here
2:  is that I get so little food & such bad food. I am almost starved here.
3:  Have you ever found how one works in proportion as one eats? I don’t
4:  mean quantity. But if the highest creative work is to be done there
5: 
6:  [top of page torn away] When I am striving to kill & crush out all that
7:  side of my nature as I have been for the last two years & a half, very
8:  nearly three years now, what do I produce? It was not that I
9:  deliberately tried to crush it, but it was such agony to me that it
10:  had to die. A man thinks when he touches a woman it is only her body
11:  he is touching, it is really her soul, her brain, her creative power.
12: 
13:  I am descended from the “Olivers” too. My great grandmother or my
14:  grandmother (I am not quite sure which, I will ask) was a Miss Oliver.
15:  That is how I came to be Olive. I have an Uncle called Oliver after
16:  her, & I am called after him, or rather after a brother who was called
17:  after him. On a little old family silver jug I have here, are the
18:  initials C.F.O. It’s very funny. I have an old Uncle called Oliver
19:  Lyndall still living in the North & I will write & ask him. Perhaps it
20:  is his mother my grandfather’s first wife who was an Oliver. My
21:  grandfather was a Presbyterian parson, old Dr. Campbell’s predecessor.
22:  ^He must have been a wonderful old man.^ I wonder what more we are going
23:  be be alike in.
24: 
25:  I think you must be tired of hearing about my not being strong. I
26:  won’t say anything more till I am. Thank you for telling me about the
27:  Doctors. I want so much [page/s missing]
28: 

Notation
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is different in some respects from our transcription. Rive's (1987) version omits part of the letter and is in a number of other respects incorrect.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xxxiii-b
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	7 July 1884
Address From	Holly Cottage, Mount Pleasant, Aspley Guise, Woburn, Bedfordshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 81

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, 7 July 1884, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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 letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. Dating this part-letter has followed an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner was resident in Apsley Guide in late June and early July 1884. The start of the letter is missing. Draznin (1992) places the letter as part of Schreiner's other letter to Ellis of 7 July 1884; however, we follow the archival order because of paper and ink variations and also because the sense does not follow on in Draznin's combined version.

1:  [page/s missing]
2: 
3:  power. It is putting his fingers into her brain & snapping the strings
4:  when he draws her to him physically, & cannot take her mentally. My
5:  Henry, there are so many things I should like to say if this was
6:  talking & not writing. We shall have so many things to say how shall
7:  we say them all when we are together such a little time.
8: 
9:  Good-bye.
10:  Your Olive
11: 

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

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xxxii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	8 July 1884
Address From	Aspley Guise, Woburn, Bedfordshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 85

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, 8 July 1884, 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. The address this letter was sent to is supplied by an associated envelope.

1:  Aspley Guise
2:  July 8 / 84
3: 
4:  I am so glad I am going tomorrow but I feel weak to pack Yes, I have
5:  the feeling as if you & I were so young together.
6: 
7:  The dream, the faith, that I should find some one just like my self
8:  was with me all through my childhood. I think one would hardly believe
9:  how youg young it was there.
10: 
11:  You could say what you like about me to Mrs. Hinton or anyone. I Did
12:  you think “New Rush” not myself? The only part that is is where he
13:  sits & sorts. If you could have seen my condition when I wrote it you
14:  would wonder that it have even the little bit of “cleverness” it
15:  has. Nothing else I ever wrote was “clever”; it was all out
16:  pouring. I don’t like New Rush at all. I don’t feel as if it
17:  belonged to me. Some times I feel inclined to publish it for the sake
18:  of the £15 I should get for it. But you don’t think it would be
19:  right do you?
20: 
21:  I felt sure you must ^suffer^ from neuralgia some times. I am a little
22:  troubled about your life: that journey to & from London every day by train
23:  takes more out of you than you think. Please take care of yourself in
24:  the way of eating. Neuralgia is always a sign of low health. If one
25:  can keep up the physical side no amount of feeling or thinking hurts
26:  one. I am at present resolving to take care of my self ^body,^ so must
27:  you. ^that we may be strong & work.^
28: 
29:  I will write to you as soon as I get to Derbyshire. Send the diary.
30: 
31:  Olive
32: 
33:  ^It isn’t Aspley Guise that’s so bad it’s just this spot. Give my
34:  love to Louie.^
35: 

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

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1a-xxxiv
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Tuesday 8 July 1884
Address From	Holly Cottage, Mount Pleasant, Aspley Guise, Woburn, Bedfordshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 86

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, 8 July 1884, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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 letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. This letter has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner was resident in Apsley Guise in late June and early July 1884, leaving on 8 July and arriving in Wirksworth via Derby on 9 July 1884.

1:  Tuesday Night.
2: 
3:  Have finished my packing, am so glad I am going.
4: 
5:  Olive
6: 
7:  Do you love that Saturday Reviewer?
8: 
9:  I am at Wirksworth all right
10:  -------
11:  Wednesday morning
12: 

Notation
The 'Saturday Reviewer' refer to a review of Schreiner's The Story of An African Farm as follows:

Saturday Review 21 April 1883: "The Story of an African Farm is clever, imaginative, original, and terribly dull. Yet it is only fair to say that the dullness is relative, or rather is the result of conscientious experiences during a comprehensive survey; for their are effective scenes and bright pieces of description which prove that Mr. Iron might be entertaining if he pleased. We own to a certain preliminary disappointment, for we fancied we should have a story of South African speculation and adventure on the borderland between savagery and civilization... so much for a novel which is a striking example of how a really clever and ingenious writer may overreach himself in ambitious efforts after originality."

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

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1b-xv
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Wednesday 9 July 1884
Address From	Derby Station, Derby, Derbyshire
Address To
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 86

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, 9 July 1884, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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 letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. Dating this letter has followed Draznin (1992) in associating it with Schreiner to Ellis, 10 July 1884 (HRC/CAT/OS/1b-1), which was originally in the same envelope with it. Schreiner was resident in Apsley Guide in late June and early July 1884, leaving on 8 July and arriving in Wirksworth via Derby on 9 July 1884.

1:  Derby Station
2:  Wednesday
3: 
4:  I got here at half past twelve & find I have to wait 4 hours till half
5:  past four. I wonder whether I shall soon get your diary. Send it at once.
6: 
7:  I hadn’t such a bad journey. I had a carriage all to my self so I
8:  could lie down, & I could have gone fast to sleep, only I was afraid
9:  we might pass Derby. This station reminds me something of London with
10:  its noise & stir. Dear old London. You don’t know how happy the time I
11:  was there looks to me now.
12: 
13:  I am getting afraid that the new place will be just like the last.
14: 
15:  I wonder if you My head is so bad. There is such a pretty wall paper
16:  in this room it is quite nice to look at it. Wall papers have so much
17:  meaning for me. I could give des-criptions of many wall papers I saw
18:  when I was a child.
19: 

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

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1b-i
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Thursday 10 July 1884
Address From	Bolehill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 27, 27-28; Rive 1987: 45; Draznin 1992: 87-8

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, 10 July 1884, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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 letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. This letter has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. See also Schreiner's letter to Ellis of 9 July 1884 (HRC/CAT/OS/1b-xv), which was originally in the same envelope.

1:  Bole Hill
2:  Wirksworth
3:  Thursday.
4: 
5:  I found your letter waiting for me when I got here.
6: 
7:  The poems are all powerful except “Love & Life” which I think weak.
8:  I like “The two loves,” very much.
9: 
10:  You are right in all you say about Marston. That is just it. You have
11:  no right to des-cribe him exactly in the same words I des-cribed him
12:  the other day though.
13: 
14:  I felt somewhat ashamed the other day after I had said that about
15:  sexual feelings. Fancy being ashamed of you. Now I’m not.
16: 
17:  About Hinton one reason why I can not feel quite the same about him as
18:  you do is that it seems to me that all that he says (except about a
19:  married man having one more than one wife, & that I have thought too!)
20:  is such old old property of mine. When I come to tell you all my life
21:  you will see that this is true. What I think is that sometimes he puts
22:  the true views badly, & not quite truly.
23: 
24:  But you are wanting to know about me.
25: 
26:  I got here last evening in the rain. This is a beautiful place, & a
27:  delightful clean little cottage off four rooms on the side of a hill
28:  over looking the little tiny town of Worksworth. It is perhaps not so
29:  pretty as some other parts of Derbyshire may by be, but to me who
30:  haven’t unreadable ^has^ longed so for my old hill life, it is so
31:  delightful One feels near God here.
32: 
33:  My chest is still so very bad. I hope I will be able to stay here. I
34:  like it so. There are only four little rooms in the cottage. I have
35:  such a beautiful little bedroom & sittingroom. If ever you should come
36:  here we will read French together. Only I am sorry there isn’t
37:  another bedroom in the house. We would have seemed somehow nearer if
38:  we had been in the same house. But there are plenty of cottages near
39:  by where I could get you a bedroom if you did come.
40: 
41:  I send you a letter part of which will perhaps interest you to read.
42:  It has made me so happy. It is the first tenderish letter I have had
43:  from my brother Theo for so many years. He is twelve years older than
44:  I am & when I was a child I used to worship him, & love him so. When I
45:  was ten & began to be a free-thinker he drifted away from me. He
46:  hasn’t cared for me much since because Christianity makes his whole
47:  life. He used to love me so. One day I will show you some little
48:  allegories & letters of his, the allegories about me, wonderful when I
49:  think they were written by a brother of three & twenty or so to a
50:  little sister of nine. Then he turned away from me so utterly when I
51:  began to think.
52: 
53:  I value this letter very much. It is only the last part that will
54:  interest you. Isn’t it funny that people I have loved most have been
55:  ^of^ my own family & the people I knew best. It isn’t newness that
56:  attracts me, it’s oldness. The more I know things the more I love
57:  them, if they are lovable at all.
58: 
59:  How nice it will be to read French with you. If I do get better here
60:  it will be some time before I am fit for work. It is so beautiful here
61:  to me Henry. On the hill opposite some great stone quarries. It is as
62:  though something tore the hill open & said “Here, you shall see not
63:  only the smoothe but the hard strong stuff that is inside too.”
64:  Somehow I like quarries. ^so^. Some people think them ugly.
65: 
66:  Your little child.
67:  Olive
68: 

Notation
The poems referred to are Ellis's sonnets, which were not published as a set until 1925 although some of them appeared contemporaneously in journals and magazines; see Havelock Ellis (1925) Sonnets With Folk Songs From the Spanish Waltham St Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is different in some respects from our transcription. Rive's (1987) version omits part of the letter and is in a number of other respects incorrect. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) short extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1b-ii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Friday 11 July 1884
Address From	Bolehill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 28-9; Rive 1987: 45-6; Draznin 1992: 90-2

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, 11 July 1884, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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 letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. This letter has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner stayed at Bolehill near Wirksworth from early to late July 1884, moved to Buxton for about ten days, and then returned to Bole Hill from mid August to early September 1884.

1:  Friday Night
2: 
3:  I do feel better today. I have been sleeping ever since I got here, &
4:  yet not fast asleep.
5: 
6:  Henry, I am so depressed thinking of my work. You see, dear one, I
7:  have so cut up & changed the thing that there is hardly anything left
8:  & I don’t know how to put it together. This afternoon I nearly got
9:  off the sofa, & burnt the whole MS. I would give hundreds of pounds if
10:  I had never touched it, & published it just as it was [bottom half of
11:  page torn off]
12: 
13:  splendid scenes.
14: 
15:  We won’t think about that any more.
16: 
17:  This place is so beautiful. Behind the house is a place called
18:  “Black Rocks.” I am going to take you to it when you come. You
19:  will like it so. I do like this Derbyshire so much. I will be so happy
20:  if I can get well here & work. I is just the place that seems made for
21:  me. I have such a beautiful bedroom up stairs with a great white bed &
22:  a top with little brown flowers on it. If you & I were [bottom half of
23:  page torn off]
24: 
25:  right. The people were real in the novel; but they are not real in
26:  that epitomy.
27: 
28:  Dr. Aveling & Miss Marx are coming up to Middleton next week. That is
29:  about a mile & a half from this I can see the house on the top of the
30:  next hill. Alfred St Johnston is coming to visit too. At least he has
31:  written to ask if he can. He is at Birmingham.
32: 
33:  My heart is heavy over my work. It is heavy because I am in
34:  uncertainty, & nothing has the same evil effect on my nature as
35:  uncertainty. The question in my mind is this. – Is it best to set my
36:  teeth together & to bring “From man to man”, up to my standard, or
37:  to leave it & throw myself onto new-work? The last would be easiest I
38:  could do splendid new work, but something in me a kind of love for my
39:  work that perhaps no one can understand makes me feel that I must
40:  labour on at my work till I am satisfied. I think it was the devil
41:  made me unpick it. Ach, I will set my teeth, & work at it & make it
42:  something better than it was, eh Henry. I can’t have Bertie &
43:  Rebekah die. They are as much to me as ever Waldo or Lyndall were. You
44:  don’t know how real my people are to me.
45: 
46:  I am covering this with blots. I am tired I think that’s why. I will
47:  have your diary perhaps tomorrow
48: 
49:  Later.
50: 
51:  It is much later I am just going up to bed. What a troubled foolish
52:  letter the first part of this is. I am ashamed, not that you should
53:  read it but that I should feel so. Not good work is ever done while
54:  the heart is hot & anxious & fretted.
55: 
56:  It is a great comfort to me that you are feeling so able to work & are
57:  working. I sort of take it for my work & feel satisfied by it. You
58:  know Henry all these months when I have been in such suffering, & have
59:  had that yearing to do something for others that I feel when I am in
60:  pain I have always built upon the fact, “From man to man” will
61:  help other people, it will help to make men more tender to women
62:  because they will understand them better; it will help to make some
63:  women more tender to others; it will comfort some women but showing
64:  them that others have felt as they do,” Now if I were to tell it
65:  fall to the ground I should feel that so much of my life had been
66:  wasted, gone for nothing. Do you long so too sometimes to lessen the
67:  pain & suffering in ^the^ world? Especially the greatest agony, despair.
68:  That feeling is always growing in me & sometimes it breaks over me in
69:  a wave of passion. It isn’t for happiness or good to myself, or to
70:  make others merry, it is to lessen the suffering of others that I have
71:  to live. It is for this that I have lead the life that I have, that
72:  now when the power of self-feeling is almost worn out in me, I should
73:  comfort others.
74: 
75:  Good night. This is a poor letter but you want me to write just as it
76:  comes. Your, Olive
77: 
78:  Love to Louie & ask her if she hasn’t got one of her likenesses to
79:  spare for me
80: 

Notation
'The thing' that Schreiner had 'cut up & changed' and 'nearly burned' is the manuscript of From Man to Man. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is different in some respects from our transcription. Rive's (1987) version omits part of the letter and is in a number of other respects incorrect. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1b-iiiHRC/OS/FRAGHRC/UNCAT/OS-159
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	12 July 1884
Address From	Bolehill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 30-1; Draznin 1992: 92-4

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, 12 July 1884, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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 letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. This letter is composed of a number of pages which are now separated in the HRC collections as the result of pre-archiving happenstance, and its beginning is missing. It has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner stayed at Bolehill near Wirksworth from early to late July 1884, moved to Buxton for about ten days, and then returned to Bole Hill from mid August to early September 1884.

1:  [page/s missing]
2: 
3:  Sh though mine is so completely blended with my mind, that it is not
4:  as strong in me. It is not so easily awakened in me, but it is much more
5:  intense even as a physical feeling I think.
6: 
7:  I am very glad you did not enter the church. How could you think of
8:  it? ^And yet in one way it would have suited you better than any thing.^
9:  I must have a long talk with you some day (perhaps in a letter) on
10:  your use of the word ?ol “God” & the old symbols generally. The use
11:  of them by people like ^you &^ me is never quite true. (That is what
12:  makes Hinton’s writings so false.) We cannot always stop to define
13:  what what we mean by God &c, &c, so the best way is not to use the
14:  terms at all. I have taken care that the word God does not occur in
15:  this last book of mine; hateful, damned name that it is. A word may
16:  become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can
17:  be purified & brought into use again. I’m not explaining what I mean,
18:  but I think you will understand.
19: 
20:  I am now able to understand your feeling for Hinton it was just
21:  ^principally^ the time at which he came to you that has made him so much
22:  to you, & I have now a new kind of feeling to Hinton myself.
23: 
24:  Your passion for that little girl who pulled up her stockings is so
25:  well to me. You darling!
26: 
27:  Yes, you did need nearness to a woman when you were in Australia. I am so
28: 
29:  [top of page torn off] to [papertorn] to you & you to her. I think it was
30:  good for you both. For me all love was meant to he a curse & suffering,
31:  – & yet, ^no,^ not a curse, one wouldn’t have been without it, but I
32:  hope I shall never love any-thing so again.
33: 
34:  You say on one page that you are writing it, & perhaps some one will
35:  one day read it & understand it, & love you. It [top of page torn off]
36: 
37:  ^And^ When I was living just like you on a lonely farm & at night when
38:  my work was over going out to walk under the willow trees or at the
39:  dam wall, & I used to think “One day I must find him.”
40: 
41:  Good bye
42:  Olive
43: 
44:  I am going to keep your diary some time longer because I’ve
45: 
46:  not done with it yet. What made you delicate when you went out to
47:  Australia, my sweet? Goethe has been just for you what he has been to
48:  me & I think ^it was^ at the same time.
49: 
50:  Midday.
51: 
52:  I have just got your letter.
53: 
54:  Yes, I have felt afraid that in my feeling that Hinton had too much
55:  power over you I might effect you too strongly on the other side. But
56:  I think that in after years when you look back we “will” see that I
57:  have been to some extent right. Hinton, is a great man, the world will
58:  he better for hearing what he has to say; you are doing good work in
59:  helping the world to hear it. In truth I do not think it was so much
60:  dear old Hinton himself as the effect of Hinton’s admirers that has
61:  not been good for you. I can quite imagine that if I were among people
62:  who were always telling me I was a second George Sand, I might in the
63:  end fancy I was & lose some of my own virtues in trying to imitate
64:  hers. And yet I never would be George Sand, & I should lose Olive
65:  Schreiner who might be every bit as good.
66: 
67:  If you heard me defending Hinton to other people you wouldn’t say I
68:  “must like him a little”. I love Hinton because he had a great free
69:  loving soul. I hate his clinging to the old symbols when he didn’t
70:  cling to the thing meant. & his fear of saying the things he meant in
71:  naked black & white. Darling, you mustn’t let me trouble you on this
72:  point. If you feel that I am not good for you in this way you must
73:  tell me not to write about it any more. Perhaps if all Hinton wrote
74:  were nakedly published that kind of holding back I complain of would
75:  be found not to be in the man. Yes, my boy, we are only children
76:  together, to help eachother to grow.
77: 
78:  Why did you tell me about that little cottage, & you all alone in it?
79:  Now I keep wanting it, & the only thing I can do is take a bedroom for
80:  you in a little house about a half a minutes walk from this. Yes, this
81:  is close to Wirksworth. It is the last house on the side of the hill
82:  above the little town. It is about a mile & a half to the station. The
83:  woman here charges me 25/- for board & all That’s not dear is it? I
84:  think the ^best^ plan will be ^to^ arrange that we take our meals together,
85:  & you just have your bedroom in the other house. How long could you
86:  perhaps stay? It would be so much nicer if we could be in the same
87:  house, some-how eh?
88: 
89:  ^Yes I want letters, but I mustn’t get them when you are busy.^
90: 
91:  Olive
92: 

Notation
Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is different in some respects from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner’s (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1b-ivHRC/OS/FRAGHRC/CAT/OS/FRAG/NFPg
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	15 July 1884
Address From	Bolehill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 98-9

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, 15 July 1884, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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 letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. This letter is composed of a number of elements, which are now separated in the HRC collections as the result of pre-archiving happenstance, and it has been dated by reference to an associated envelope. Schreiner stayed at Bolehill near Wirksworth from early to late July 1884, moved to Buxton for about ten days, and then returned to Bole Hill from mid August to early September 1884.

1:  I have been reading Miss Jones’s letter again. I feel so sorry for
2:  her, but I feel so sorry for you I feel quite sore. When she says
3:  “you are of kin – whether Olive Schreiner is I don’t know” &c
4:  what does she mean? Of “kin” with Hinton, of “kin” with whom?
5:  I hope my darling has not been forgetful to her in her trouble. We
6:  must bring down our broad desire to help other people, & let it force
7:  itself down into the little tiny acts with regard to other people, as
8:  well as in our general thinking & working for their good. But I fancy
9:  you need less to be reminded of this than I do.
10: 
11:  Please write the names of some good books. I don’t know what to send
12:  for. Have you read the life of Ellen Watson? I wonder if it would help
13:  Miss Jones if I were to write to her a good deal, nice long letters,
14:  or if she would dislike it. What do you think
15: 
16:  Don’t let the thought of me keep you from going to see her, because
17:  you knew you are my own boy whatever you are doing. You must do
18:  what’s right, & what you feel you can.
19: 
20:  [top of paper torn away] I have an idea now that what is the matter with
21:  me just now is hay-fever. I’ve never been just like this before. Do
22:  you know of any little quiet, country, sea side place near this part
23:  of England where I could go, & where you could come for your holiday?
24:  By the sea I am always so well, & I want to be so well when you are
25:  with me. This place is so beautiful & the quiet so sweet. I would like
26:  to live here always.
27: 
28:  [top of paper torn away] good as I can [paper torn away] is best I left
29:  out those parts. I will make it best. You help me so.
30: 
31:  My Dadda writes to me some times, now & then a little note. You
32:  don’t know how good & thoughtful he is for me.
33: 

Notation
The book referred to is: Anna Buckland (1883) A Record of Ellen Watson London: Macmillan. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1b-v
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Thursday 17 July 1884
Address From	Bolehill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 29-30; Draznin 1992: 100-1

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, 17 July 1884, 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 has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner stayed at Bolehill near Wirksworth from early to late July 1884, moved to Buxton for about ten days, and then returned to Bole Hill from mid August to early September 1884.

1:  Thursday.
2: 
3:  I have just got a letter from my Dadda. My little nephew is ill &
4:  wants so much to come & stay with me he keeps saying, that if he could
5:  be with me he would be quite well. My brother wants him to come to me
6:  for a fortnight coming. next Thursday, & for me to take him to Buxton.
7:  Henry, if I were there would you come there too? It would be better if
8:  we were there quite alone together – but it’ll still bye me & still be
9:  you. Henry, if you would rather come after he’s gone, you won’t stay
10:  shorter time because of that? The time you spend here won’t be wasted;
11:  it will be good for your work. You can do much writing here.
12: 
13:  When people I know are ill they always long for me, & I must always
14:  answer back to their longing. I should like you to see the little boy
15:  because I love him so much.
16: 
17:  Mrs. Walters is coming on Sat to stay with me till Monday. It is she
18:  who wrote those letters about Hinton. She was so afraid of my falling
19:  in love with you, that was why she wrote them. You would like her very
20:  much, she is more like you & me in character than anyone I know. She
21:  is something like you in the face too. That in Eleanor Marx’s letter
22:  about friendship is like we think. I am going to try & work to-day. I will.
23: 
24:  Do you know that when I went to Dr. Coghill at Venter (the well known
25:  chest man) he said that if I married I would be quite well. He sent
26:  his wife to talk to me. She told me her own case which was exactly
27:  like mine (, & what is funny she said her’s began through being
28:  starved at school just when she was first a woman) & she said that
29:  from the day she married she never knew she had a chest again.
30: 
31:  It can’t be hay fever. I sat in the hay field yesterday. The food is
32:  very good here. We shall have such nice little dinners & teas together.
33: 
34:  Olive
35: 

Notation
Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner’s (1924) short extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1b-viHRC/CAT/OS/1b-viii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Monday 21 July 1884
Address From	Bolehill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 34-5; Rive 1987: 47-8; Draznin 1992: 106-8

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, 21 July 1884, 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 composed of a number of pages, which are now separated in the HRC collections as the result of pre-archiving happenstance. The letter has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent toSchreiner stayed at Bolehill near Wirksworth from early to late July 1884, moved to Buxton for about ten days, and then returned to Bole Hill from mid August to early September 1884.

1:  Monday Night
2: 
3:  I am so tired. I did not go to to sleep till the dawn light was
4:  shining strong in my windows last night. ^this morning^. I walked down
5:  to Wirksworth this afternoon to get my letters. I have done a little
6:  good work today & yesterday. Worked with such intense enjoyment, &
7:  then I know my work is good
8: 
9:  The feeling of pleasure thrills all through me.
10: 
11:  N Good night
12:  Olive
13: 
14:  I have many plans about your coming. I wonder how you answered Miss
15:  Jones. Do you write as if you understood what she meant? Tell me as
16:  much about these things ^as^ you like. I like to know about you.
17: 
18:  Tuesday.
19: 
20:  I liked the letter I got this morning so much.
21: 
22:  You will find that I know nothing at all of ^F^french, but if you will
23:  teach me a little while you are here I will easily be able to go on by
24:  myself. It will be the first time anyone has ever helped me to learn
25:  anything except when I was very little & my mother taught me to read.
26:  I have never been to school you know or had one sixpence expended on
27:  my education. When I think of all the advantages ^that^ other people
28:  have I sometimes feel bitter, or at least I used to, I don’t ^now^
29:  know. When people say it is unnatural for people placed as Lyndall &
30:  Waldo were to have such thoughts & feelings, I laugh to myself
31: 
32:  It isn’t that one can’t teach oneself everything, one can, but
33:  it’s at such a fearful cost of strength. That makes me sorry that I
34:  never had any help. I haven’t told you anything really of my life
35:  yet, I will when we are together. My work is getting on splendidly Its w
36:  You will think perhaps that I’m writing sheets & sheets, but I’m
37:  not. It’s wonderful what a lot of thought & feeling goes just to
38:  make a few lines when they are written.
39: 
40:  It’s not Hayfever, because I can go & sit in the Hay fields. I
41:  don’t dislike Shiller. He is one of the weak second order of minds,
42:  but I feel kindly to him. I have not read anything since I came here
43:  except a few pages of Heine & Emerson. My dreaming takes up so much of
44:  my time. I wonder if they have medical books at the London. Sometimes
45:  when I can read nothing else I can lose myself in reading the account
46:  of a disease & the various remedies & mode of treatment. It seems to
47:  me that such a marvellous light is to be thrown on the whole physical
48:  & mental being of man, remotely on the whole universe by the study of
49:  morbid physical conditions But this doesn’t account for the peculiar
50:  delight I take in such things. It is strange that every member of my
51:  family (, except one brother & the sister who died the other day) have
52:  this feeling. This desire to doctor, this interest in all that belongs
53:  to the study of disease. In my little mother & in my eldest brother
54:  tears come into his old eyes now, when he talks of his longing to be a
55:  doctor & who it couldn’t be. There is something quite pathetic in
56:  the way in which he potters over his boys will bottles of medicine,
57:  – a kind of inbred instinct that will out. Really I have not often
58:  heard of a complex instinct like that running in a whole family, have
59:  you? I was quite touched when I came to England & found that my eldest
60:  brother who had left home when he was twelve long before I was born &
61:  who had never seen any of his friends since had developed exactly the
62:  same passion that Theo, & Ettie, & Katie, & I had. Alice may have had
63:  it too, but she never told me of it.
64: 
65:  I am going for a little walk [bottom part of page torn off]
66: 
67:  for your neuralgia. I don’t think that “will” is Colonial. I
68:  know Mrs. Brown does it too instinctively. I think I do it when I find
69:  that it expresses better what I mean than if I said “shall,” & so
70:  on. When I was little I used to have a great many ways of talking &
71:  words I used that were different from other children [bottom part of
72:  page torn off]
73: 
74:  tell when [part of page torn off]
75: 
76:  ^I suppose that’s why so little is known.^
77: 
78:  ^This book is going to be awfully outspoken An African Farm was nothing
79:  to it in ?heat. Perhaps I shall have work with the publishers but they
80:  like to make money.^
81: 
82:  Olive
83: 

Notation
The poet Friedrich Shiller wrote, among many other things, the 'Ode to Joy' immortalized in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and also as the anthem of the European Union. The book which was to be 'awfully outspoken' is From Man to Man. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is different in some respects from our transcription. Rive's (1987) version is misdated, includes material from the second part of the letter only, omits parts of this, and is in a number of other respects incorrect. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) short extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1b-ix
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Wednesday 23 July 1884
Address From	Bolehill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 34; Draznin 1992: 108-9

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, 23 July 1884, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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 letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. This letter has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner stayed at Bolehill near Wirksworth from early to late July 1884, moved to Buxton for about ten days, and then returned to Bole Hill from mid August to early September 1884.

1:  Wednesday
2: 
3:  I have read Leckys History of European Morals. That last chapter on
4:  women, was the first time ^thing^ that I ever heard or knew really
5:  anything of prostitution. It came on me like a flash, & it has had an
6:  effect on my whole life. “Is it necessary there should be
7:  prostitutes?¬ – then let them be set up on high as other good & useful
8:  things are – But it is not necessary, &, by God, it shall not always
9:  be!” That was my first feeling. His “History or Rationalism in Europe”
10:  also had great things for me at the time I read it. Read it if you
11:  have not. I read “Under-ground Russia” at Aspley Guise. Thank
12: 
13:  I shall send for the other books you mention [rest of the page torn off]
14: 
15:  The first time she came to see me it made me feel that I didn’t care
16:  to come any nearer to you or that you should come ^any^ nearer to me. A
17:  kind of disgust. almost. I do not feel that I am of kin with the
18:  Hinton school (^though^ I should love Mrs. Hinton ^very^ much, I know, &
19:  sympathise with her!) & it seems to me that perhaps you were right in
20:  that feeling of drawing back from me with regard to Hinton, darling, &
21:  that perhaps I was taking tending (in ^far as I had any influence with you)^
22:  to take you out of an influence that was good & happy for you, better
23:  than anything I have to give you.
24: 
25:  I have been reading Heine with pleasure; he helps one to forget
26:  everything, doesn’t he?
27: 
28:  I haven’t heard again from Eastbourne, but I think Wilfred is coming
29:  on Friday or they would have written. Yes, [part of page torn off]
30: 
31:  soon as he goes, if you care to come. [part of page torn off]
32: 
33:  ^or come before. I would take rooms for you in Buxton.^
34: 

Notation
The books referred to are: Stepniak Kravchinski (1883) Underground Russia London: Smith, Elder; W.E.H. Lecky (1869) A History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne London: Longmans, Green & Co; The History of England in the Eigheteenth Century London: Longmans, Green & Co; (1865) The History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism London: Longmans, Green & Co. Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is different in some respects from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner’s (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/UNCAT/OS-160
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Thursday 24 July 1884
Address From	Bolehill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Address To
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 34; Rive 1987: 48; Draznin 1992: 110-11

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, 24 July 1884, 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 has been dated by reference to information written onto it by Ellis. Schreiner stayed at Bolehill near Wirksworth from early to late July 1884, moved to Buxton for about ten days, and then returned to Bole Hill from mid August to early September 1884.

1:  Thursday Afternoon
2: 
3:  I have been reading “Love’s Martyrdom” and “The Two Loves.”
4:  Do you know that there is great worth in them. I have first seen it
5:  clearly now. “The two loves” has power, not only power of thought,
6:  but power of expression, that is to me almost wonderful. It came on me
7:  just now with a thrill of pleasure when I was reading. The Woof of
8:  Reminiscence has wonderful word power also. It I think it it is the
9:  peculiarity of your^self^ & of all that belongs to you, that it ^you^
10:  im?proves^fold^ on acquaintance, it unfolds. Voice, manner, every thing
11:  unfolds, & shows more than one ^ever^ thought of. You are a kind of
12:  sweet surprise. Take great care of ^all^ the sonnets you write. All I
13:  have seen ought to be published except “Life & Love” That isn’t
14:  like you If I read it with out knowing it was yours I should never
15:  dream you had written it It has not that strength which nothing else
16:  of yours lacks, that strength which is shown most in your critical
17:  power & in your tenderness. I think you are tenderest ^strongest^ where
18:  you are strongest. ^tenderest^ I think those last lines of The Two Loves
19:  are so tender & strong.
20: 
21:  Dr. Aveling & Miss Marx have just been to see me. She is now to be
22:  called Mrs. Aveling. I was glad to see her face. I love her, but she
23:  looks so miserable.
24: 
25:  Henry, what a great & solemn thing love is. I want in my life’s work,
26:  if I work much & live long, to show what a wonderful power love has
27:  over the physical & through it over the mental nature, over what we
28:  call the soul, the inner-self. In this book I have tried to show it,
29:  but you see when I wrote it I did not know what the last three years
30:  have taught. I can only now try to show it
31: 
32:  ^here & there. Good evening friend.^
33: 
34:  Olive
35: 
36:  I am going to work some more now.
37: 
38:  ^I have a funny feeling that I could write in the same room where you
39:  were. I don’t know if I could. I should like to try some day. Any
40:  other person stops utterly my mental work, but I was feeling just now
41:  that if you were lying on the bed behind me I should work just the
42:  same, better I think.^
43: 

Notation
The 'Woof of Reminiscence' and the other titles mentioned are of poems in Ellis's Sonnets With Folk Songs. See Havelock Ellis (1925) Sonnets With Folk Songs From the Spanish Waltham St Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is different in some respects from our transcription. Rive's (1987) version is taken from Cronwright-Schreiner. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1b-x
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Friday 25 July 1884
Address From	Bolehill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 34; Rive 1987: 48-9; Draznin 1992: 111-12

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 July 1884, 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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1:  Bole Hill
2:  July 25 / 84
3:  Friday
4: 
5:  I won’t say all I’ve got to say, just cram away for that old exam now,
6:  darling. I don’t understand your life quite, yet, but it seems to me
7:  that for the next couple of years your medical studies ought to stand
8:  a good bit to the fore. You will reap the benefit of them mentally, &
9:  in increased usefullness to others, & in many ways bye & bye.
10: 
11:  Oh, that was a sweet little story that came to me last night. Just
12:  like the one in the ^school^ Mag it is in character but much nicer. It
13:  is such a beautiful evening, & such a still light on the grass. Do you
14:  know that snuffing quinine does me such wonderful good. As soon as
15:  leave it off my chest gets asthma; isn’t that funny? I am very well;
16:  ^shall^ be such a strong girl by the time you come! Forget me &
17:  everything for a day or two.
18: 
19:  ^Your,^
20:  Olive
21: 
22:  ^Nice you should do me good.^
23: 
24:  ^You shall have such a rest when you come here. He shall be petted so.^
25: 
26:  ^I’m saving it all up.^
27: 

Notation
The ‘sweet little story’ Schreiner was writing cannot be established but a number of her allegories were published in the New College Magazine. Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is different in some respects from our transcription. Rive’s (1987) version omits part of the letter and is in a number of other respects incorrect. Cronwright-Schreiner’s (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/1b-xi
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Tuesday 29 July 1884
Address From	Bolehill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 35-6; Draznin 1992: 114-5

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, 29 July 1884, 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 has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner stayed at Bolehill near Wirksworth from early to late July 1884, moved to Buxton for about ten days, and then returned to Bole Hill from mid August to early September 1884. A large section of the second page has been torn away, leaving legible passages at the bottom of each side, but scattered words only down the edges.

1:  Tuesday Morning
2: 
3:  I was going to tear up the bit I enclose, but I won’t because perhaps
4:  you would like to see it. I can’t explain what I mean by this fear not
5:  even to my-self, perhaps you can for me. I am so afraid of caring for
6:  you much I feel such a bitter feeling with myself if I feel I am
7:  ^perhaps^ going to. I think that is it. I feel like someone rolly
8:  rolling a little ball of snow on a mountain side, & he knows at any
9:  minute it may pass out of his hand & grow bigger & bigger & go – he
10:  knows not where.
11: 
12:  Yet, when I get a letter, even like your little matter-of-fact note
13:  this morning, I feel “But this thing is yourself.” In that you are
14:  my-self I love you & am near to you; in that you are a a man, I am
15:  afraid of you & shrink from you.
16: 
17:  ^Do^ You know that butterfly that the artist of ^the^ beautiful makes in
18:  Hawthorne’s story?
19: 
20:  Thankyou for that notice about Will Sharp’s book. I mean to get it.
21:  How is our exam going. ?feeling ?miss It’s this dry-as-dust part of
22:  the work that must be so horrible. Especially, you see, if you don’t
23:  think in your future life of making the practise & study of ^medicine^
24:  it the central point (& I feel most distinctly that your “call” is f
25:  to literature, just as mine was, in spite of my medical longing).
26: 
27:  Yesterday I heard part of Ibsen’s play “Ghosts”, still in MS. It is
28:  one of the most wonder-ful & great things that has long, long been
29:  written. I wanted you so too, to be sitting there too ^by me^ to hear it.
30:  There was one line that touched the^se^ last three years. It made me
31:  almost mad. I cried out aloud & I couldn’t help it. Please If there
32:  had been a hundred people there I could^not^ have helped it.
33: 
34:  I have just got a telegram from my brother to say I must be in [paper
35:  torn away]
36: 
37:  is a friend of Mrs. Walter’s. His, from what she tells me, is another
38:  case in which the sister has been the determining & good power in a
39:  man’s life. This sister whom I
40: 
41:  [paper is torn away]
42: 
43:  Good night
44:  Olive
45: 
46:  Mrs. Walters says that I seem years unreadable gladder younger than
47:  when she saw me this time last year, like just as if I were only
48:  fifteen. Do you know it is you who have made me feel so young. Almost
49:  altogether you. I feel younger much
50: 
51:  ^than when I was about a child of ten. Your Olive^
52: 

Notation
The 'bit enclosed' is no longer attached. The books referred to are: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1846) 'The Artist of the Beautiful' in his Mosses From an Old Manse New York: Bohn's Standard Library; Henrik Ibsen (1881) Ghosts (trans. Henrietta Frances Lord) London: Griffith, Farran & Co. The reference to Will Sharp may be to the poet; see William Sharp (1889) American Sonnets London: Walter Scott. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is different in some respects from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract includes material from a different letter and is also incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/2a-i
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	After Start: 1884 ; Before End: 1889
Address From	na
Address To
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions

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, 1884, 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 is a scrap of paper torn away from the page of a now untraceable or destroyed letter. It is on paper of a kind Schreiner used in the mid and late 1880s and thus how it has been dated.

1:  [page torn away] & saw
2: 
3:  for my book last night when I
4: 
5:  [page torn away] Please tear up.
6: 

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/2a-ii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Saturday 2 August 1884
Address From	Bolehill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 36-7; Rive 1987: 49-50; Draznin 1992: 118-20

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, 2 August 1884, 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 has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner stayed at Bolehill near Wirksworth from early to late July 1884, moved to Buxton for about ten days, and then returned to Bole Hill from mid August to early September 1884.

1:  Sat. Night late
2: 
3:  I have just come home with Wilfred from a concert. I am tired but I
4:  want to write to you. I have so many plans about your coming, &
5:  don’t know which will be best. You see at Bole Hill it is nice, & in
6:  some ways I want so much to be there, but the Avelings being at
7:  Middleton makes it all different. I am beginning to have such a horror
8:  of Dr. A-, other-self. To say I dislike him doesn’t express it at
9:  all, I have a fear, a horror of him when I am near. Every time I see
10:  him this shrinking grows stronger. Now you see when I am at Bole Hill
11:  they come every-day to see me. We shouldn’t be much alone, & we have
12:  so many things to talk about. At Buxton we should find it too
13:  townified, & besides dearer than you & I like. I think the way would
14:  be for you to come here on Monday evening, & stay till Wednesday when
15:  we could talk over going back to Wirksworth, or taking rooms at
16:  Miller’s Dale or some out of the way little village.
17: 
18:  You see, Henry, we have so many things to do & to talk about. It may
19:  ^be^ the last time we are together ^(^(certainly for months,^)^ perhaps for
20:  years. likely will be I have to stick to my book till the winter (& I
21:  don’t know that I shall have it ready by November.) Then I shall
22:  have to go to the South of France or at nearest to Ventnor. And if we
23:  are at Wirksworth the Avelings will be always with us. I love her, but
24:  he makes me so unhappy
25: 
26:  I think you had better come here on Monday & stay till Wednesday ^eh^? I
27:  can get you the little room Wilfred has. I wish I had read Bebel’s
28:  book before you came I couldn’t get a copy. Now until my little boy
29:  goes I shan’t be able to look at a book or a news paper. When he is
30:  with me I only play & amuse him, & walk about with him from the time
31:  he gets up till he goes to bed. Then I am too tired to read or write.
32: 
33:  We must read all we can on the woman question, just now it is our
34:  question. In after years it may be something else. I will tell you
35:  about “Ghosts” when you come. I touch deals with the question of
36:  equal moral laws for both sexes, & of physical relation ship even
37:  between a half brother & sister “when good.” - & with what
38:  wonder-ful art it deals with the subject! It is a translation by
39:  Frances Lord. The book is considered too strong even on the continent,
40:  what with they think of it in England. She is trying to find a
41:  publisher for it, as she lost heavily on “Nora”.
42: 
43:  Do you know that Wirksworth is the scene of Adam Bede & that George
44:  Eliot’s aunt lies buried there? Ach, I want you to see Wirksworth,
45:  ugly as it is; we will arrange everything when you come. Wherever we
46:  are we will rest together. I do tell you about myself. My chest aches.
47:  Wilfred is 12 years old, & just as tall as I am. His eyes are
48:  something like his father’s but the lower part of his face is his
49:  mothers.
50: 
51:  Yesterday we were rowing on the lake a in the morning, ^in^ the
52:  afternoon I took him to see a cavern, in the evening to a concert.
53:  Today being Sunday I am going to take him for a long walk & tell him
54:  stories. I am so
55: 
56:  You can’t think what a horror I am getting to have of Dr. A. He is
57:  so selfish, but that doesn’t account for the feeling of dread. Mrs.
58:  Walters has just the same intuitive feeling about him. I had it when I
59:  first saw him. I fought it down for Eleanor’s sake, but here it is
60:  stronger than ever.
61: 
62:  G Sunday Morning. Your little letter has come. Yes, when I don’t get
63:  a letter from you I go about so restless, it makes me bad. I hope you
64:  will get my book this morning or tomorrow.
65: 
66:  ^That will do instead of a letter.^
67: 
68:  Olive
69: 

Notation
The book Schreiner has to 'stick to' is From Man to Man. Frances Lord 'lost heavily' on her Ibsen translations; see Henrik Ibsen (1881) Ghosts (trans. Henrietta Frances Lord) London: Griffith, Farran & Co, and Henrik Ibsen (1882) Nora (later A Doll’s House) (trans. Henrietta Frances Lord) London: Giffith, Farran & Co. The book Ellis might get the next day is likely to be is the manuscript of Undine, which Schreiner sent him and he kept until it was published by Cronwright-Schreiner after her death. The books referred to are: August Bebel (1884) Woman in the past, present and future London: Reeves; George Eliot (1859) Adam Bede London: William Blackwood & Son. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Rive's (1987) version omits part of the letter and is in a number of other respects incorrect. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/2a-iii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Monday 4 August 1884
Address From	Buxton, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 37; Draznin 1992: 121

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, 4 August 1884, 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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1:  Buxton
2:  Monday
3: 
4:  No letter from you this morning. I have a bad cold on my chest, & lay
5:  in bed. Bring something interesting for us to read when you come;
6:  though with all we have to say, our walks & our French-reading, we
7:  shall not have much time over.
8: 
9:  I should like to know Miss Hadden. Were you ever a wee bit in love
10:  with Daisy Hinton?
11: 
12:  I have to take my little boy to an entertainment this evening. This is
13:  a very short note, but you would rather have it than nothing I does us
14:  such good to get letters from each other
15: 
16:  Olive
17: 

Notation
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/2a-iv
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Tuesday 5 August 1884
Address From	Buxton, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 38; Draznin 1992: 122-3

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, 5 August 1884, 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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1:  Buxton
2:  Tuesday Night
3: 
4:  Sweet, I am soon going to bed very tired. We went for a drive this
5:  morning to a place called the “Cat-&-Fiddle.” I must go to it with
6:  you. It is the first ^& only^ place I have seen in England that gives
7:  one that feeling – the feeling we both miss so here. It is a bare
8:  wild mountain top 2000 feet above the see. You have that sense of
9:  solitude even though there are many pl people near you. This afternoon
10:  we went for a walk to Miller’s Dale. That too is beautiful, but it
11:  is the English “beautiful,” not ours. You know Wirksworth isn’t
12:  beautiful a bit compared to this part of Derbyshire it is quite ugly &
13:  common.
14: 
15:  I am not quite sure if Wilfred will go on Monday, but I think so. I
16:  took your letter with me & I read it at the “Cat & Fiddle.” & this
17:  afternoon at Miller’s Dale. I must get that article in the
18:  Nineteenth. I like Seely so. Now he is a man to whom I feel “a-kin.
19:  ” That is something quite different from merely admiring a writer,
20:  very much admiring him. I always feel (did from the first moment I
21:  opened his book) akin to Emerson.
22: 
23:  I never read now, never touch a book You can’t think in what a
24:  completely stupefied state of mind I am. I can’t even make stories
25:  to myself after I go to bed. Tomorrow we are going to the Valley of
26:  the Goyte. ?I ?want ?might Goodnight my brother. How nicely I will
27:  rest when I know you are sleeping in a room not far off
28: 
29:  Olive
30: 
31:  ^I have such heaps of things about Eleanor Dr. A – & all sorts of
32:  things to talk about.^
33: 
34:  Your little comrade.
35:  Olive
36: 

Notation
Schreiner read many reviews and journals and her reference to an 'article in the Nineteenth' is a mistake, for Seeley's article appeared elsewhere. He published three linked articles on Goethe in as follows: John Seeley (1884) 'Goethe' Contemporary Review, August (pp.161-77), October (488-506) and November (pp.653-72) 1884. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/2a-v
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Friday 8 August 1884
Address From	Buxton, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 38; Draznin 1992: 124-5

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, 8 August 1884, 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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1:  Buxton
2:  Friday.
3: 
4:  I am so glad that exam is over. Even if you haven’t passed it it’s
5:  something to have got rid of it. But I hope you have.
6: 
7:  I think you must come on Tues-day. I have to take Wilfred to Derby on
8:  Monday afternoon, shall not be back at Wirksworth till late in the
9:  evening, & I don’t want you to come ^just^ when I am too tired to stand
10:  or move. I think we had better go to Wirksworth straight.
11: 
12:  I didn’t write yesterday because I was very tired. I will explain to
13:  you about my style when I see you. I never know why I do ^write^ things
14:  in a cer-tain way when I write them, but I can generally find out if
15:  think afterwards. I think what you mean is what I called “writing
16:  ribbed” I don’t know when I invented that term for a certain style of
17:  writing; I am changing a whole chapter of “From man to man” from what
18:  I call the plain into the “ribbed” style. Sometimes the plain is right,
19:  sometimes the “ribbed.” I think I generally write descriptions in the
20:  plain, & philosophize or paint thought in the “ribbed.” (You know in
21:  knitting there are two stitches, one makes a plain surface & the other
22:  makes ribs; I think I got it from that. Ribbed knitting isn’t smooth
23:  it goes up & down, up & down).
24: 
25:  I wish Dr. A wasn’t at Wirksworth.
26: 
27:  Good bye till tomorrow my own friend what a difference you make in my life.
28:  Olive
29: 
30:  If I’m not well enough to go about with you you must go alone for
31:  walks. I want you to see everything I’ve seen.
32: 

Notation
Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner’s (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/2a-vi
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Saturday 9 August 1884
Address From	Buxton, Derbyshire
Address To
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 38-9; Draznin 1992: 125-6

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, 9 August 1884, 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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1:  Buxton
2:  Saturday
3: 
4:  So glad my brother has passed. I had set my heart on it.
5: 
6:  Odd that you have just the same kind of feeling to Miss Jones that I
7:  have, & it seems so wrong to me, & I can’t help it.
8: 
9:  Bring letters of yours & lots of things about yourself, & I will show
10:  you many of mine. You had ^better^ come to Matlock, not Wirksworth
11:  station I think, there are so few trains from Derby to Wirksworth, &
12:  both ^stations^ are about a mile & a half from Bole Hill. Tell me which
13:  way you are coming, & by what train on Tuesday. If you can tell me
14:  exactly ^at what time you will come^ & you come from ^the^ Matlock ^way,^ I
15:  will meet you at the top of the Cromford Hill, if you are walking. But
16:  I think you will have to drive as you won't he able to carry your bag
17:  all that way, the road is so steep. I wish
18: 
19:  Your sister
20:  Olive
21: 

Notation
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/2a-vii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Wednesday 27 August 1884
Address From	Bolehill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 127-8

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, 27 August 1884, 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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1:  Boll Hill
2:  Wednesday Night.
3: 
4:  It seems so long since this morning days & days.
5: 
6:  Now Mr & Mrs Walker have gone to bed in your room & am sitting here at
7:  my little table. ?I ?wonder unreadable You have had a wet cold day for
8:  your journey. I’m afraid you were very tired when you got home. It has
9:  rained here all day.
10: 
11:  Mrs. Walker asked me this afternoon if I was engaged to you. I said,
12:  no. I haven’t been able to write this afternoon so I have done ever so
13:  much needle work Tomorrow I am going to get up early & work. I feel so
14:  happy in mind, only this afternoon when I looked out at the window I
15:  saw a man on the road from Wirksworth with a black bag in his band & a
16:  black hat, & tall, & it made it seem somehow as if you ought to be
17:  coming. I didn’t like it. I feel much less in spirit to work than when
18:  you were with me, but that will pass tomorrow.
19: 
20:  Harry, you must do a good deal of work, & don’t let your reading &
21:  thinking run too much in one line.
22: 
23:  I felt I shouldn’t sleep so I asked Mrs. Walker to give me a whole
24:  glass of beer to drink before I get into bed.
25: 
26:  Good bye, my own friend,
27:  Olive
28: 
29:  Could you find out & tell me what the charge for copying MS. is I know
30:  there are many people at the British Museum who do it.
31: 

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

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/2a-xiv
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Thursday 28 August 1884
Address From	Bolehill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Address To
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 39, 39; Rive 1987: 50; Draznin 1992: 128-9

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, 28 August 1884, 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. In the absence of other information, dating this letter has followed Draznin (1992), who has done so by reference to Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) The Letters. Schreiner stayed at Bolehill near Wirksworth from early to late July 1884, moved to Buxton for about ten days, and then returned to Bole Hill from mid August to early September 1884.

1:  Thursday Night ^9.30.^
2: 
3:  I have been working since nine o’clock this morning. Have not left
4:  off even to eat, eat walking up & down. Have ?ha not laid down today!!!
5:  Can you believe that? I feel as if I must write to you this evening.
6:  I have to keep on working or I would miss you. I haven’t been out of
7:  doors today, but could see such a lovely light on the grass. I wanted
8:  to go for a walk with you.
9: 
10:  Weren’t they glad to see the boy at home. How was the cream? I am
11:  afraid it was butter. And the eggs. I ought to have packed them.
12: 
13:  I haven’t heard again from Blackwell, but I think I shall be able to
14:  go on Tuesday.
15: 
16:  What of the Avelings? Be sure you don’t mention to anyone our my
17:  idea about the debt, because it might set other people to whom he owes
18:  money on him.
19: 
20:  I am going to read Emerson now. You know he is just like a bible to me.
21:  It comforts me so.
22: 
23:  I wonder if there will be a letter from you tomorrow. Does it seem
24:  long to you since you went too?
25: 
26:  Good night now, my boy,
27: 
28:  Olive
29: 
30:  Friday.
31: 
32:  I have your letter, & the toothbrush.
33: 
34:  Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be sad or afraid.
35: 
36:  I think the great difference between us was is that the goodness which
37:  I only strive after, you have.
38: 
39:  There is one word in your letter I can’t make out. I send it to you.
40:  I am disappointed that Louie was not athome when you got there. I
41:  wanted her to be there to comfort you.
42: 
43:  You seem to have had such a good effect on my mind. I am working
44:  better than I ever have since I came to England.
45: 
46:  I ?wond I think I do understand you.
47: 
48:  Olive
49: 

Notation
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Rive's (1992) version omits part of the letter and is in a number of other respects incorrect. Extracts from the letter appear under different dates in Cronwright-Schreiner (1924) and these are also incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/2a-xv
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Friday 29 August 1884
Address From	Bolehill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 39; Draznin 1992: 130

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, 29 August 1884, 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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1:  Bole Hill
2:  Friday night
3: 
4:  Walked down to Wirksworth this afternoon to buy quinine & see if there
5:  were letters; was caught in the rain. Have come back, & am sitting in
6:  my bedroom: by fire burning & gas lit. It looks so nice & bright, my
7:  heart doesn’t keep getting cold like last evening.
8: 
9:  I have been working all day though I have not written much. I have
10:  been tearing up. I did a splendid bit this evening, though; or rather
11:  it’s come to me, I haven’t written it yet. My brother wants me to
12:  go to town to see those Cape people, but I don’t feel as if it would
13:  be right to leave my work just now.
14: 
15:  My stomach is quite right ^well.^ I have nothing the matter with me. I
16:  haven’t got my library books yet. I like to hear about the little
17:  things you do in London & where you go.
18: 
19:  Sat morning.
20: 
21:  Have your little note. Do you know that since I came to England I have
22:  never felt in mind as I do now. So able for work. Henry, you are good
23:  for me, about the best thing that ever came into my life.
24: 
25:  How is your liver now? You mustn’t fancy that you had anything to do
26:  with my being so stupid of body the last week. It was only that
27:  Cromford was too low for me, & I was stupid when you came, my strength.
28:  I do feel near you. I can feel your heart up against mine all the
29:  time. I am glad they think you looking stouter a little. I should like
30:  to make you quite fat with happiness & sleep (it isn’t eating that
31:  makes one fat) & I’m sure you would be better for it. Have you
32:  noticed that all highly nervous people are better the stouter they are
33:  & worse the thinner they are. I know it’s so with me. Phlegmatic
34:  people again are nearly always better when they are thin. Of course
35:  this is just generally speaking. Olive.
36: 
37:  ^Thanks for the toothbrush^
38: 
39:  ^I leave for Black Well Farm on Wednesday morning. Had a letter from St.
40:  Johnstone this morning. Read a lot of French last night before I went
41:  to bed.^
42: 
43:  ^I have Mrs A’s address.^
44: 

Notation
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/2a-viii
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Sunday 31 August 1884
Address From	Bolehill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 133

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, 31 August 1884, 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 address this letter was sent to is provided by an associated envelope. Schreiner stayed at Bolehill near Wirksworth from early to late July 1884, moved to Buxton for about ten days, and then returned to Bole Hill from mid August to early September 1884.

1:  ^My bedroom^
2:  Sunday Afternoon.
3:  Sept ^Aug 31st^ 1884
4: 
5:  I have just got your Friday evening letter. It is very sweet to me.
6:  How strange you should have such a longing for music; the day you went
7:  I kept feeling “Oh if I could hear music, if I could hear music.” & I
8:  have been feeling more or less the same ever since.
9: 
10:  My heart, my sweet heart, has it got dull aching sensation! [bottom of
11:  page torn off]
12: 
13:  your Pocket Book? I think you will have to send a weekly copy of it to me.
14: 
15:  I am reading Lange History of Materialism. I like it very much It
16:  doesn’t exactly hinge in with my work somehow though. A notice of a
17:  terrible case at the Diamond Fields of abducting young girls for
18:  prostitution has much more fallen in with it. I haven’t been for a
19:  walk since you left except that once to Wirksworth. When I feel I
20:  can’t write any more I go & sit ^walk^ at the side of the house where we
21:  used to sit. Ach, Harry!
22: 
23:  Good night.
24:  Olive
25: 
26:  I shall be at our Farm at 10 o’clock on Wednesday. I don’t hate
27:  Bakewell, Harry.
28: 

Notation
The book referred to is: Frederick Lange (1877) A History of Materialism London: Trubner. Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner’s (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/2a-ix
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	After Start: 1884 ; Before End: 1889
Address From	na
Address To
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions

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, 1884, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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 letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. This scrap of a letter has been torn away from the rest and cannot be matched with any surviving letter or part-letter. It is written on paper of a kind Schreiner used in the mid and late 1880s and thus its dating.

1:  [paper torn away] evenings
2: 
3:  [paper torn away] comfort
4: 
5:  [paper torn away] to you.
6:  [paper torn away] I might have
7:  [paper torn away] ?here, Henry.
8: 
9:  [paper torn away] Burn this.
10: 

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/2a-x
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Tuesday 2 September 1884
Address From	Bolehill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Draznin 1992: 135

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, 2 September 1884, 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 has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to.

1:  Bole Hill
2:  Tuesday Afternoon
3: 
4:  I send you the photo, but you must throw it away when I send you
5:  another. I don’t like such an unpleasant thing shown, but it
6:  doesn’t matter if you like it.
7: 
8:  You needn’t tear up any mor of my letters if it really hurts you. I
9:  can’t think that tomorrow I shall be
10: 
11:  ^going up our road.^
12: 
13:  Olive
14: 

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

Letter Reference	View HRC/CAT/OS/2a-xi
Archive	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	Wednesday 3 September 1884
Address From	Blackwell, Alfreton, Derbyshire
Address To	24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London
Who To	Havelock Ellis
Other Versions	Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 40; Rive 1987: 50-1; Draznin 1992: 136-8

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, 3 September 1884, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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 letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. This letter has been dated by reference to an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. The final insertion is written on the back of the envelope.

1:  Blackwell
2:  Wednesday Ngt
3: 
4:  I got here this afternoon. The woman is so horrible: they want me to
5:  take & pay for the room that I didn’t ?st take. I don’t know what
6:  to do or where to go. Would you go for me to Eleanor, or rather would
7:  you find out where she is ^at once^ & send this letter to her. I have
8:  written to both the addresses I thought would find her & got no answer.
9:  It is to ask her for the address of those rooms Miss Harkeness had.
10:  Also if it wouldn’t be too much trouble could you get me the
11:  addresses of some rooms some where in the part Miss Jones used to live
12:  in. But don’t trouble about this as I will very likely find rooms in
13:  Ventnor. Henry I just feel in despair. I am so weary of roving about.
14:  I shall do no work I shall do no good in the I world if I can never
15:  find a place to rest in Now, for the next week or ten days till I am
16:  settled I shall not be able to put pen to paper. I feel so weak & I
17:  feel so tired, love. Put your arms round me. Yes, I know you do & it
18:  helps me so. I am unwell & I have such pain in my body. I feel so weak
19:  as if I wanted someone to stroke my hair. Oh I haven’t any where to
20:  go to I must have a place somewhere if it is only one tiny little room
21:  & no one shall turn me out. My comfort, my boy, you do let me rest my
22:  head against you. Please write to me. Above all things any rooms you
23:  get must be quiet quiet quiet. I only want to rest I don’t want any
24:  thing else.
25: 
26:  When the woman was talking to me I began to cry & I’ve I been crying
27:  ever since. I can’t stop my self. I wonder if my physical state has
28:  anything. I’m not so weak generally, as to let anyone see me cry. I
29:  have been wanting you more all these days than I have let myself know
30:  I have been trying to forget it & work. I passed our caves. Harry they
31:  didn’t look like when we were there. It was in us the beauty. Your
32:  little sister wants to know how your
33: 
34:  ^mother is & Louie’s hand. Good night. When I go to bed I shall think
35:  how you love me.^
36: 
37:  Olive
38: 
39:  ^Wednesday afternoon^
40:  Have arrived at Blackwell. Written at Blackwell.
41: 

Notation
Louie Ellis was also in correspondence with Schreiner, and while none of Schreiner’s letters to Louie survive, three of Louie’s letters to Schreiner are archived with the Ellis materials in the HRC collection. Immediately before this 3 September letter to Ellis, Louie and Schreiner had been in correspondence about a dress Louie was making for her; Louie’s comments on this (HRC/HavelockEllis/Misc/LouieEllistoOS/3) are as follows::

‘Sunday night.
Aug. 24th 1884

My dear Olive,

Thank you for wanting to write me - & doing so. You must be sorry that Henry is coming home. I am very glad, only sorry for you - & perhaps you are glad for me – so it mitigates it all round. Why do you call him Ellis? There is a comradeship about it, but I don’t like it. I don’t want to wear boy’s clothes, exactly – a gymnastic costume, comes near my desire. But I’d be content to begin with some g flowing gown which would not encumber one. I’ve forgotten what we planned. I was trusting to H. to remember when I mentioned it. It was a loose body, because a tight body tho stays is an anomaly and I think a long plain ^or knitted or tucked^ short – just escaping the ground – that makes you look tall – your ?silk was rather too short – (you’ll excuse me won’t you) and the sleeves must be tight – tho’ I don’t like tight sleeve – because one looks so broad - and you know that bright soft gypsy red, that’s the color that wld suit you. Walking along the other day – I was charmed with a girl’s dress – it was in the Island – down a lovely winding road – with an old wall on one side – she was walking in the road – with a gypsy red shirt on & ^a^ black body holding a basket. No artists’ forethought could have introduced a better bit of color into the landscape.

Its very hard for me to imagine you sitting with your hair down – as I’ve never seen you without your bonnet!!

I’m so glad Henry is better – he hasn’t had a rest for a long time – he only rushed to Paris & back last year you know - & had ^with^ a male friend.

I am in a night dress & dressing gown - & my hair is screwed up in brown papers, showing my “noble brow” as my friends say; the appearance is very comic.

Goodnight dear, this hot weather in Anerley tires me very much. Louie.

^Mother sends you her love.^'

Draznin’s (1992) version of Schreiner’s letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Rive’s (1987) version omits part of the letter and is in a number of other respects incorrect. Cronwright-Schreiner’s (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.