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| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Havelock Ellis 2006.29/12 |
| Archive | National English Literary Museum, Grahamstown |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 18 October 1886 |
| Address From | 9 Blandford Square, Paddington, London |
| Address To | 98 Earlsbrook Road, Earlswood, Surrey |
| Who To | Havelock Ellis |
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The manuscript of this letter by Olive Schreiner belongs to the Archive referenced above; its ownership of the original should be acknowledged by referencing the letter as indicated: Copyright transcription: © Olive Schreiner Letters Project. This transcription can be freely used as long as copyright is acknowledged and it is referenced using the following citation: ‘Olive Schreiner to Havelock Ellis, 18 October 1886, National English Literary Museum, Grahamstown, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
Legend
The Project is grateful to the National English Literary Museum (NELM) for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. The date has been derived from the postmark on an attached envelope, although this is not fully legible; the envelope also provides the address the letter was sent to. The Howard Hinton bigamy trial in which Mrs Weldon was correspondent took place in late October 1886, providing the year the letter was written. Schreiner was resident in Blandford Square from early October to mid December 1886, when she left London for Europe.
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This trial affair is so terrible; they are all so false. What a
2: terrible deadly thing that Hinton theory is, like a ?upas tree
3: blighting all it comes in contact with because it is false to human
4: nature.
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I saw John Falk on Friday. I am going to get Mrs Weldon to stay here
7: till the trial & I am going to to sit with her at hi it.
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Do you know I can't help hating Mrs Howard Hinton. She is the only one
10: I can't feel sorry for. Poor Howard looked so beautiful when he went
11: into the prisoner's dock. They say he will likely only get a few days
12: -& then
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14: ^I can't think about anything else.
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Olive^
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