SCCSTheLife: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
Life/1: My dear Mrs Cawood,, I have got your letter with the stamps. I wanted you never, never to pay for the books; but, as you woul...
Life/2: May I state there is no foundation for this statement. I only had the honour of meeting Mr. George Meredith once for four or ...
Life/3: Yes, Chapman & Hall did send my MS. back to me, and Chapman asked me to call and see him. When I came he said he wanted t...
Life/4: During the last six weeks I have been very unhappy, not knowing whether to answer your letters on political matters or not. W...
Life/5: [page/s missing] I would not reply to your letter were it not that it has made me feel I may have been unjust to [word missin...
Life/6: I have made it a fixed rule of my life never to countenance interviewing in any way or in any of its forms. The whole of the ...
SCCSTheLettersRemaining: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
Letters/1: To Mrs. R. Cawood. , Victoria Hotel, Cradock, 5th May., I don't know when I felt more lonely in my life. I wish you were here...
Letters/2: To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 8th Sept., I have thought so much of you, and you would hardly believe how I wish to see you. Yo...
Letters/3: To Willie Cawood (the second son)., Ratel Hoek, 4th April., I suppose by this time you've quite forgotten me and when you get...
Letters/4: To Mrs. Cawood. , Ratel Hoek, 8th Sept., ... I don't know how it is, I seem to have met more likeable people in the course of...
Letters/5: To Mrs. Cawood., Kat Kop, 4th Nov., Mother Fouche says that Stoffel is determined that, when Annie has been a year in Cradock...
Letters/6: To Mrs. Cawood. , Tarkastad, 9th Dec., I wish you were here to talk matters over with me. I know you always make my affairs ...
Letters/7: To Mrs. Cawood. , Seymour, 17th Jan., ... My year at Ratel Hoek is up on the 10th May, and if I wished I could leave, and I h...
Letters/8: To Katie; Her Sister., Tarkastad, 10th March., ...I am now in Tarkastad, waiting for Mr. Martin to come and fetch me. I am mu...
Letters/9: To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 24th April., Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid! You say you wish it had been my own eng...
Letters/10: To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 4th Aug., And now I'm going to quarrel with you. What do you mean by going to Cradock and stayin...
Letters/11: To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 10th Sept., I am beginning to understand for the first time your wish to live to be an old woman...
Letters/12: To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 27th Dec., I am going to leave this in May, and if I haven't got a situation by that time perhap...
Letters/13: To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 9th Jan., I wish I could see you. Perhaps it would give you a little happiness, and it would do ...
Letters/14: To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 24th Jan., Now as to my coming to you. It is as though someone held out a very nice ripe apple t...
Letters/15: To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 4th Feb., Who do you think was here to-day, Mr. Stoffel Fouche! He came to get me he said, and h...
Letters/16: To Mrs. Cawood. , Ratel Hoek, 24th Feb., From seven years to eleven or twelve they should not study too hard, but after that ...
Letters/17: To Mrs. Cawood. , Ratel Hoek, 26th Feb., ... Now that the time for leaving begins to come near I begin to feel a great pain a...
Letters/18: To Clifford Cawood (Now Mrs. Stanley)., Eastbourne, 7th May., I came with the intention of becoming a nurse, but since I have...
Letters/19: To Mrs. Cawood., Eastbourne, 15th Aug., I don’t think when we human beings really love one another we can ever leave of...
Letters/20: To Mrs. Cawood., Eastbourne, 3rd Oct., I leave on Saturday for London to enter the Endell Street Hospital for three months to...
Letters/21: To Mrs. Cawood. , 81, Guilford Street, Russell Square, London, 14th May., Dear old friend, so you won't write to me, won'...
Letters/22: To Mrs. Cawood., 11, Porchester Gardens, London, 11th July, Will came to say goodbye to me on Thursday. We had a very happy t...
Letters/23: To Mrs. Cawood., St. Leonards-On-Sea, 19th Oct., You see I have left my dear old London, ordered away by the doctors, and hav...
Letters/24: To Mrs. Cawood. , Rose Cottage, Bexhill, 15th Nov., I am having to go back to St. Leonard's on account of my chest. ..., I ho...
Letters/25: To Mrs. Cawood., Edinburgh House, St. Leonards, 20th March., ... The great pleasure to me however has been the meeting of som...
Letters/26: To Miss Louie Ellis. , Aspley Guise, 2nd July, Dear Louie,, Thank you for your letter. I'm glad you all liked “New Ru...
Letters/27: To Havelock Ellis., Bole Hill, 15th July., When will you be coming it you do come? You will have your meals here. My chest is...
Letters/28: To Miss Louie Ellis., Bole Hill., I don't know if Ellis is writing to you. I want to write to you. I'm glad you have been hav...
Letters/29: To Havelock Ellis. , Bole Hill, 27th Aug., I am going to begin work now. I miss you more than I thought I should. … I f...
Letters/30: To Mrs. Cawood. , 39, Belgrade Road, London, 13th Sept., I haven't changed a bit in the way you fancy, though I have changed...
Letters/31: To Havelock Ellis. , St. Leonards, 7th Nov., I think my brother liked your article on the Woman Question. He likes me to like...
Letters/32: To Havelock Ellis., 4, Robertson Terrace, St. Leonards, 28th Dec., My Harry, can you come on Monday? I like Myers' poems bett...
Letters/33: To Havelock Ellis., 4, Robertson Terrace, 4th Jan., I have read some of Myers' essays. He writes well and I like his mind, it...
Letters/34: To Havelock Ellis. , 4, Robertson Terrace, 5th Jan., I dislike the article of Myers on Renan very much. His assertion that Ge...
Letters/35: To Havelock Ellis., 4, Robertson Terrace, 6th Jan., When I've had something to eat (I am faint now, lying on my back on the b...
Letters/36: To Havelock Ellis. , 4, Robertson Terrace, 9th Jan., I have been in a dead dream all day. To-morrow I mean to work all day. ...
Letters/37: To Havelock Ellis. , 4, Robertson Terrace, 10th Jan., Keep me close to you. I have of late such dead feeling emotionally. I t...
Letters/38: To Havelock Ellis., 4, Robertson Terrace, 10th Jan., Last night I couldn't lie and rest. In my half-asleep state I prayed and...
Letters/39: To Havelock Ellis., 4, Robertson Terrace, 12th Jan., Yes, I used to have that feeling of a power bearing me up, that would le...
Letters/40: To Havelock Ellis. , 4, Robertson Terrace, 20th Jan., Could you find out what the price of rooms in Gower Street is? ... My ...
Letters/41: To Havelock Ellis. , 4, Robertson Terrace, 27th Jan., The doctor has been and I put my rug round me and I sat in the chair w...
Letters/42: To Havelock Ellis., 4, Robertson Terrace, 28th Jan., My chest is getting worse, but my head is wonderfully clearer. To-day I ...
Letters/43: To Havelock Ellis., 4, Robertson Terrace, 29th Jan., I can't tell why it is that when it begins to get dark in the evening ti...
Letters/44: To Havelock Ellis., 4, Robertson Terrace, 30th Jan., Alfred St. Johnston is going to publish my life after I am dead. He want...
Letters/45: To Havelock Ellis. , 4, Robertson Terrace, 31st Jan., Please look out for rooms for me for to-day week. My chest is getting ...
Letters/46: To Havelock Ellis., 4, Robertson Terrace, 1st Feb., I am better. I am coming to London on Friday. It’s glorious to be b...
Letters/47: To Havelock Ellis. , 4, Robertson Terrace, 2nd Feb, Is that George Sand? It's funny that when I looked it as I took it out of...
Letters/48: To Havelock Ellis. , 4, Robertson Terrace, 3rd Feb , I'm as lively as a young cricket this morning. I am going to try and wr...
Letters/49: To Havelock Ellis. , 4, Robertson Terrace, 5th Feb., I am getting so much better that I really don't need to go to London. I...
Letters/50: To Havelock Ellis., 19, Charlotte St., 10th Feb., I am vaguely conscious that in moral questions I am still, as I have been f...
Letters/51: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 23rd Feb., I am always giving you trouble. Now you have to go running about my bag again! I'm g...
Letters/52: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 24th Feb., After my fifteen hours work of course I lay awake all night. Up early this morning a...
Letters/53: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 26th Feb., I have not read at all to-day, or thought about anything, but Bertie and Rebekah. I ...
Letters/54: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 28th Feb., I sent the George Sand portrait to my brother without saying anything. He says it's ...
Letters/55: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 2nd Mar., I have been looking at that life of Schopenhauer to-day. If I had ever read him, or e...
Letters/56: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 3rd Mar., My Aunt Rolland is my mother’s sister, married a French missionary, and went ou...
Letters/57: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 4th Mar., I am going to finish off my scandal-talking women to-day. Somehow I can't bear them. ...
Letters/58: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 4th Mar., I've not worked yet to-day. Been doing all sorts of little things. I am very well. I ...
Letters/59: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 7th March., I had pretty bad asthma last night. ... I'm glad I'm a member of the New Life, but ...
Letters/60: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 9th March., I fight always so hard to keep all sad hopeless thoughts from me, because they sap ...
Letters/61: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 10th March., Miss Müller called to-day, but I didn't feel that I wanted to see her. I sent...
Letters/62: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 12th March., Miss Müller called to-day. We had a long and very delightful talk. ... No, I ...
Letters/63: To, Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 13th March., I went to Pevensey in the afternoon. It was so beautiful. Here are three daisies ...
Letters/64: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 20th March., Can one talk of a "croning" laugh? I say “Rebekah laughed the small croning ...
Letters/65: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 21st March., All the last eight days I have a most terrible headache that never leaves me. I fe...
Letters/66: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 22nd March., I have got up very early, have had an egg and some bread and some squeezed lemon (...
Letters/67: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 29th March., Only about 130 pages revised, and four or five hundred more! When will it be done?...
Letters/68: To Havelock Ellis,, Hastings, 29th March., Oh Havelock, when I have even £200 of my own, so that once again I can have t...
Letters/69: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 1st April., If I was to be in love with anyone else and tell you about it would you be able to ...
Letters/70: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 2nd April., I can't get out. I sprained my leg on that long walk. Roden Noel called yesterday, ...
Letters/71: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 4th April., I am better. I am going nearly mad with my work. I have written this half chapter o...
Letters/72: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 5th April., My mind struck work to-day and I have been doing needlework. ... Roden Noel returns...
Letters/73: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 8th April., I have just received this. Please go and see them and tell me just how Aveling is. ...
Letters/74: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 9th April., You know I think the brain works hard when one is not conscious of its working. I t...
Letters/75: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 10th April., If you're a good boy when you come I’ve got a lovely little story to tell yo...
Letters/76: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 11th April., I have been working all the morning, but now I must give in and read French. ... L...
Letters/77: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 13th April., I am alright. But my legs always ache. I don’t know how or why they ache, or...
Letters/78: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 14th April., I am a bit weary and heartsore. My chest isn’t right; it will never be like ...
Letters/79: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 26th April., All day and all last night I have been quivering and vibrating. I wonder if you ev...
Letters/80: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 1st May., The swelling is almost gone. I'm scribbling to-day. It's ten days since I last wrote....
Letters/81: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 3rd May., I have just discovered from Bagehot that I what I am trying to do is to make my work ...
Letters/82: To Havelock Ellis. , Hastings, 4th May., I have been making observations now for many years and I have come to te conclusion ...
Letters/83: To Havelock Ellis., Hastings, 5th May., I think Eleanor is coming to meet me at Charing Cross, but I have to hear from her ag...
Letters/84: To Havelock Ellis., 41, Upper Baker St., London, 17th May., This afternoon Philip Marston and Rider Haggard called. I had suc...
Letters/85: To Havelock Ellis. , Upper Baker St., 18th May., I don't wish I was a little child now. I'm a big woman. I feel very happy t...
Letters/86: To Havelock Ellis., Upper Baker St., 20th May., The old maids are good tempered to-night.,
Letters/87: To Havelock Ellis., Upper Baker St., 22nd May., You know I am getting fond of my good old maids. I can't live with people wit...
Letters/88: To Havelock Ellis., Upper Baker St., 24th May., I found my two dear old maids so glad to see me when I got home. I am going t...
Letters/89: To Havelock Ellis., Upper Baker St., 29th May., If your mind is like mine you won't be able to write much while you are readi...
Letters/90: To Havelock Ellis., Upper Baker St., 15th June., George Moore has been here all the evening. He is a real man of genius.,
Letters/91: To Havelock Ellis., Upper Baker St., 17th June., I have to harden myself or I couldn’t be strong and work. You don't re...
Letters/92: To Havelock Ellis., Upper Baker St., 27th June., The old ladies have given me notice! I had a long talk with Moore. No man is...
Letters/93: To Havelock Ellis., Upper Baker St., 29th June., I have had to lie down all day; couldn’t go with Philip to Lady Wilde’...
Letters/94: To Havelock Ellis., Upper Baker St., 2nd July., Please love me. I wish I could believe anything was real. I want to be alone ...
Letters/95: To Havelock Ellis., Upper Baker St., 3rd July., I've been to Dr. Donkin. I enclose his prescription. Feel better. He was so k...
Letters/96: To Havelock Ellis., Upper Baker St., 20th July., Donkin says Gladstone likes the African Farm so much.,
Letters/97: To Havelock Ellis., Upper Baker St., 23rd July., I don't know what is the matter with me that I long for quiet so, just for t...
Letters/98: To Havelock Ellis., ? 2nd Aug., My asthma is still bad. I think it is the little close house. I have been out on the hill and...
Letters/99: To Havelock Ellis., ? 3rd Aug., I have been sitting out on the rocks alone till ten o‘clock. They are rough rocks that ...
Letters/100: To Havelock Ellis. , ? 4th Aug., Suffocated all night. Have been rushing all over the place for rooms where I can breathe. H...
Letters/101: 16, Portsea Place, 4th Aug. (2nd letter)., Havelock, all day to-day I looked for rooms till three o'c1ock. Then I arranged to...
Letters/102: To Havelock Ellis., ? 5th Aug., I am writing to St. Leonards to see if I can go there if I get worse. I feel very desolate., ...
Letters/103: 5th Aug. (2nd letter)., I have been snuffing glycerine and can see a little better. I have got out my papers and am trying to...
Letters/104: To Havelock Ellis., 16, Portsea Place, London, 10th Aug., My Havelock comrade, I am still so stupid and going to bed. (Later....
Letters/105: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 11th Aug., Have been lying down all day, but bet...
Letters/106: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 14th Aug., I was awake nearly all night with my ...
Letters/107: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 16th Aug., Have been so industrious writing sinc...
Letters/108: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 17th Aug., Last night D - came in. He said a fu...
Letters/109: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 18th Aug (2nd letter)., Oh, Henry, when passion ...
Letters/110: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 19th Aug., Yes, passion has its beautiful side,...
Letters/111: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 21st Aug., I am writing hard. I am going to be ...
Letters/112: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 25th Aug., I am going to bed. D - came for a few min...
Letters/113: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 2nd Sept., I am starting off to Ventnor on Fri...
Letters/114: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 3rd Sept., I don't think I am going to the Isl...
Letters/115: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 11th Sept., Sat up almost the whole night writ...
Letters/116: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 11th Sept. (2nd letter)., Only fit to walk abo...
Letters/117: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 14th Sept., Dr. Wilks and Mrs. Barnes called thi...
Letters/118: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 18th Sept., The thought suddenly came to me this evening that - had come back. (Yo...
Letters/119: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 28th Sept., I have been reading Diana of the Crossways all day. Isn't it splendid! ...
Letters/120: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 29th Sept., Yesterday D - came; he says I'm not to work for a week. He took me to ...
Letters/121: To Mrs. J. H. Phllpot. , 16, Portsea Place, 4th Oct., I think Diana of the Crossways the most fascinating novel that has be...
Letters/122: To Mrs. Cawood. , 16, Portsea Place, 5th Oct., I've a great many friends who are very loving to me, but sometimes I feel ve...
Letters/123: To Mrs. Cawood. , London, 5th Oct., Ach, I would like to see old Africa a bit, I would like to smell the mimosa trees. I oft...
Letters/124: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 5th Oct., A splendid flash, a whole story, this morning, so lovely, about a rich gr...
Letters/125: To Havelock Ellis. , 5th Oct. (2nd letter)., Miss Müller came and took me for a drive this afternoon; we went to Wimble...
Letters/126: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 6th Oct., I'm working at my dress to-night. I can't do stiff brain work. I have no c...
Letters/127: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 24th Oct., It seems so nice to talk a little to you. I got back about 1 to-day. I w...
Letters/128: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 26th Oct., Have just come back from Dr. Philpot's. Ray Lankester was there. He is t...
Letters/129: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 27th Oct., I don't like Michael Field's letter, not at all. She's false and artificia...
Letters/130: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 28th Oct., Chest bad but better. … I am going to write to that Arnold White; i...
Letters/131: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 29th Oct., My landlady has given me notice to leave at once because I have so many m...
Letters/132: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 31st Oct., Arnold White has been here. He's a tall, handsome man, rather stout, abou...
Letters/133: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 3rd Nov., I felt so sad last night, my comrade, I haven’t felt that kind of bl...
Letters/134: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 5th Nov., Scribbling and thinking all day. How is it my mind takes such a long time ...
Letters/135: To Havelock Ellis. , 16, Portsea Place, 6th Nov., I went to Mrs. Hinton's last night; they were so nice. But if I am to work ...
Letters/136: To Havelock Ellis., 16, Portsea Place, 9th Nov., Harry, I feel tired and heartsore to-night. What if there's nothing true, no...
Letters/137: To Havelock Ellis., 16, Portsea Place, 16th Nov., Never, except perhaps when I was at Dordrecht, has my mind worked and expan...
Letters/138: To Havelock Ellis., 16, Portsea Place, 20th Nov., Please, when you have time, put me down the names of six especially good bo...
Letters/139: To Havelock Ellis., 16, Portsea Place, 27th Nov., I am just sitting down to my writing. I really am going to sit to-day. I'm ...
Letters/140: To Havelock Ellis., 16, Portsea Place, 30th Nov., I'm so well, and that's the crown blessing, when I think of the agony in wh...
Letters/141: To Havelock Ellis., 16, Portsea Place, 1st Dec., Shall I sign the Ruskin paper for you? It's just to say we feel real sympath...
Letters/142: To Havelock Ellis., 16, Portsea Place, 18th Dec., I went to see an old woman in Bolsover St., she is a procuress I can see, a...
Letters/143: To Havelock Ellis., 16, Portsea Place, 18th Dec. (2nd letter)., My heart is getting worse and worse. I think it is the bad dr...
Letters/144: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., 16, Portsea Place, 25th Dec., Life, from the time one enters it, seems to be a battle between the dut...
Letters/145: To Havelock Ellis., 16, Portsea Place, 26th Dec., My Havelock, a policeman wanted to take me to prison yesterday because I wa...
Letters/146: To Havelock Ellis., 16, Portsea Place, 29th Dec., The policeman has been to apologise to me, sent by the mutual friend but th...
Letters/147: To Miss Louie Ellis., Thank you for your nice long letter. I've been dreaming about over my work all day but haven't done muc...
Letters/148: To Havelock Ellis., 16, Portsea Place, 3rd Jan., I can’t marry, Henry, I can't, and some awful power seems drawing me o...
Letters/149: To Havelock Ellis., 16, Portsea Place, 8th Jan., I went by myself to the Millais pictures this morning. I hate Millais more t...
Letters/150: To Havelock Ellis., 16, Portsea Place, 12th Jan., Just starting. All in a dream. Address Shanklin.,
Letters/151: To Havelock Ellis., Royal Spa Hotel, Shanklin, 16th Jan., Perhaps when I have been here a few weeks I shall begin to write le...
Letters/152: To Havelock Ellis., Shanklin, 17th Jan., You don't understand the horror I have of talking of myself and my own feelings, and...
Letters/153: To Havelock Ellis., Shanklin, 20th Jan., I am changed, but it is not to you. An instinct, I think of self-preservation, is ma...
Letters/154: To Havelock Ellis., Shanklin, 23rd Jan., I am much troubled about my head. I have a terrible feeling I shall never be able to...
Letters/155: To Havelock Ellis., Shanklin, 31st Jan., Yes, I have developed faster than ever in my life before, except that year at Dordre...
Letters/156: To Havelock Ellis., Shanklin, 2nd Feb., My Havelock, I send you Ray Lankester's letter to me and mine to him. Will you do me ...
Letters/157: To Havelock Ellis., Shanklin, 4th Feb., I can hardly walk, my legs are so bad. I'm going to try Bournemouth. I have such desp...
Letters/158: To Havelock Ellis., Shanklin, 6th Feb., Mrs. Hinton, without saying a word to me, wrote to - that I was very ill, hadn't eate...
Letters/159: To Havelock Ellis., Bournemouth, 19th Feb., I am very ill. I shall have to go to London if I do not get better. I am worse th...
Letters/160: To Havelock Ellis., Bournemouth, 23rd Feb., Much better, but doctor says I will have to keep quite still on my back for some ...
Letters/161: To Havelock Ellis., Bournemouth, 24th Feb., The doctor says that I must keep quite still. I feel so happy and quiet somehow, ...
Letters/162: To Havelock Ellis., Bournemouth, 27th Feb., Your letter was so sweet this morning. If you go to Australia I'd like to go as f...
Letters/163: To Havelock Ellis., Bournemouth, 1st March., Mrs.- comes to see me every afternoon. She says it helps her so much. I feel so ...
Letters/164: To Havelock Ellis., Bournemouth, 9th March., My own, you must not expect me to write much. For the first time, the last two d...
Letters/165: To Havelock Ellis., Bournemouth, 10th March., I never could ever have conceived of the problem till the last two years. But n...
Letters/166: To Havelock Ellis., Bournemouth, 16th March., My Havelock, I am as seedy as ever. I am now in that state of mind in which one...
Letters/167: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Bournemouth, March., I had no idea Romola was so grand. How George Eliot seems to live again in it, a...
Letters/168: To Mrs. Cawood., Bournemouth, 19th March., Ach, dear friend, I do long so for a little Cape sunshine sometimes. Everything el...
Letters/169: To Havelock Ellis., Southbourne-On-Sea, 22nd March., I am so worn out I can't go on much longer. I must go and live at the Co...
Letters/170: To Havelock Ellis., Southbourne-On-Sea, 28th March., The last chapter of Undine, I mean when she dies, is not so bad. Will yo...
Letters/171: To Havelock Ellis., Southbourne-On-Sea, 31st March., I do not think it will be very nice at Kilburn. But I am getting resigne...
Letters/172: To Havelock Ellis., Southbourne-On-Sea, 1st April., Sweet comrade, I walked on the beach this evening. I like walking against...
Letters/173: To Havelock Ellis., The Convent, Kilburn (St. Dominic's), 6th April., It is so nice and quiet here. You can't think what a fe...
Letters/174: To Havelock Ellis., Kilburn, 10th April., I went to see Holman Hunt's Exhibition this afternoon. You must go to see it, my da...
Letters/175: To Havelock Ellis., Kilburn, 19th April., I would like so much to have a child, but I couldn't bear to be married; neither co...
Letters/176: To Havelock Ellis., Kilburn, 26th April., I've not seen or spoken to anyone for eight days and I feel so hysterical that I'm ...
Letters/177: To Havelock Ellis., Kilburn, 28th April., I'm going to stick up for Miss Haddon like old boots. Compared to those white-washe...
Letters/178: To Havelock Ellis., The Convent, Harrow-On-The-Hill, 15th May., Got here an hour ago. Have a quiet dark room, and everything ...
Letters/179: To Havelock Ellis., The Convent, Harrow, 16th May., I’m not troubled about art. I'm trying to enlighten you! ... Oh, Ha...
Letters/180: To Havelock Ellis., The Convent, Harrow, 20th May., No, I deny that you can see how Wilhelm Meister was made; you can see how...
Letters/181: To Havelock Ellis., Harrow, 20th May., I love Burns more and more. I love that, "The Lark of Killyburn Braes." The best line ...
Letters/182: To Havelock Ellis., Harrow, 27th May., I send you a bit of rough MS. as a specimen. Is it good enough to send to Press in its...
Letters/183: To Havelock Ellis., Harrow, 29th May., Havelock, all day yesterday I was writing and thinking about the unity of the Universe...
Letters/184: To Havelock Ellis., Harrow, 21st June., I have had a fashionable prostitute here all day, such a sweet bright gentle woman. I...
Letters/185: To Havelock Ellis., Harrow, 22nd June., That prostitute is so darling. You would love her. Would you like to meet her? She wa...
Letters/186: To Havelock Ellis., Harrow, 26th June., I'm getting to love Landor so in your edition. I'm going to read all he’s writt...
Letters/187: To Havelock Ellis., Harrow, 29th June., I feel almost mad to-day, I've had such a succession of painful reproaching letters. ...
Letters/188: To Havelock Ellis., Harrow, 19th July., I am working so hard. I've never worked like this since I came to England. I could wr...
Letters/189: To Havelock Ellis., Harrow, 16th Aug., "What did Goethe's Faust sell himself for?" What is the one thing which we, any of us,...
Letters/190: To Havelock Ellis., Harrow, 19th Aug., Olive Schreiner can't write a sensational story, can't she! I've written a devil of a ...
Letters/191: To Havelock Ellis., Harrow, 20th Aug., My sensation story is lovely. "Olive Schreiner can't write a sensation story!" Ach!, ...
Letters/192: To Havelock Ellis., Harrow, 27th Aug., I've been a hateful girl this afternoon. I'm sure you're right. I shall see just as yo...
Letters/193: To Havelock Ellis., Harrow, 29th Aug., Mrs. Wilson came at 5. She is splendid. You ought to have a talk with her.,
Letters/194: To Havlock Ellis., Harrow, 1st Sept., It's so hot and it's horrid to be so shabby. The people in the streets laugh at me beca...
Letters/195: To Havelock Ellis., Harrow, 13th Sept., Podmore and Pearsall Smith were coming to-morrow. I've written to tell them they must...
Letters/196: To Havelock Ellis., Harrow, 17th Sept., My comforting boy, I have been sleeping all day. I am only getting out of bed now at ...
Letters/197: To Havelock Ellis., Harrow, 22nd Sept., Not able to go into town to-day. It's just the old regular breakdown. Children ought ...
Letters/198: To Havelock Ellis., Blandford Square, 12th Nov., I have very nearly had brain fever. I am glad you are working hard. That is ...
Letters/199: To Havelock Ellis., Blandford Square, 26th Nov., I send you a rough draft of Jan. Tell me (1) Whether you think printing it w...
Letters/200: To Havelock Ellis., Blandford Square, 7th Dec., I had called up both servants and told them if you came you were to be shown ...
Letters/201: To Havelock Ellis., Blandford Square, 13th Dec., I am getting on all right. I have a Hospital nurse. Give my love to Louie an...
Letters/202: To Havelock Ellis., Vevey, Switzerland, 21st Dec., I was glad of your letter to-night. One's a bit more desolate than words c...
Letters/203: To Havelock Ellis., Vevey, Switzerland, 22nd Dec., Mrs. Clifford called this morning, was very kind. I am going to try rooms ...
Letters/204: To Havelock. Ellis., Clarens, Christmas Day., This place is just like hell. Anything so hideous and so awful you cannot conce...
Letters/205: To Havelock Ellis., Hotel Roth, Clarens, 28th Dec., I am quite settled here. Much better.,
Letters/206: To Havelock Ellis., Clarens, 30th Dec., Anything to read would be welcome. I begin to feel I could read. Your letter was a gr...
Letters/207: To Havelock Ellis., Clarens, 12th Jan., I have never been so happy and restful. I am picking up in physical strength. I am th...
Letters/208: To Havelock Ellis., Clarens, 13th Jan., You must save money so that you can come to Italy with me in the autumn, to Florence ...
Letters/209: To Havelock Ellis., Clarens, 15th Jan., Darling boy, tell me all about what you are doing, please. I am not so well again. .....
Letters/210: To Havelock Ellis., Clarens, 21st Jan., I am getting on. Going to work hard... Leslie Stephen came to-day. He's a tall thin u...
Letters/211: To Havelock Ellis., 15th Feb., I came here this morning in the boat from Clarens. It's more than an hour and the boat back ha...
Letters/212: To Havelock Ellis., Clarens, 24th Feb., I’m writing such a lovely paper on sex experiment. I shall die easier after I’...
Letters/213: To Havelock Ellis., Clarens, 26th Feb., Going to send for doctor to examine chest. Worst symptom is that I have become so ang...
Letters/214: To Havelock Ellis., Clarens, 27th Feb., After saying I’m so angelically sweet I find I’m not. Devil in me this mo...
Letters/215: To Havelock Ellis., Clarens, 3rd March., Writing sex paper still. Getting to think it’s worth-less, but going to finish...
Letters/216: To Havelock Ellis., Clarens, 11th March., I’m not miserable at all, but the weight of life seems just quietly crushing ...
Letters/217: To Havelock Ellis., Clarens, 15th March., My own boy, I am in a low fever, very nearly mad. I am starting off for Lucerne to-...
Letters/218: To Havelock Ellis., Clarens, 16th March., All my veins are on fire and I keep the people awake by screaming all night.,
Letters/219: To Havelock Ellis., Hof Gersau, Lake Of Lucerne, 17th March., I've been passing through about the stiffest time of my life me...
Letters/220: To Havelock Ellis., Mendrisio, 20th March., I wish I could see you this evening. I am reading Mill’s Logic. It comforts...
Letters/221: To Havelock Ellis., Mendrisio, 22nd March., Saturday or Sunday I don’t know which. My heart turneth to thee. Of course ...
Letters/222: To Havelock Ellis., Grand Hotel, Alassio, 30th March., What is the matter that I am getting weaker and weaker every day? It s...
Letters/223: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 1st April., If it's not utter nonsense, send it on; but don’t if it is. You can please put...
Letters/224: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 2nd April., What do you think of the enclosed? I wrote it since I came up from dinner. The dry a...
Letters/225: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 15th April., I am working hard. Do you think “Towser the Dog” is good enough for Don...
Letters/226: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 16th April., Excuse first draft. I made two new allegories last night after I was in bed. This I...
Letters/227: To Miss Louie Ellis., Alassio, 19th April., I am going to leave this on the seventh for Switzerland, because I’m afraid...
Letters/228: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 25th April., Harry, you must send me that letter of - . I shall be absolutely mad in a few days...
Letters/229: To Havelock Ellis., Hotel Smith, Genoa, 2nd May., I left Alassio at 10 this morning; got here an hour ago. This is a cheap li...
Letters/230: To Havelock Ellis., Beellinzona, 4th May., On Swiss soil once more. I'm so glad. I slept last night at Arona. I meant to go o...
Letters/231: To Havelock Ellis., Gersau, 11th May., I am going to work now. I have had terrible asthma all night; even chloral didn't give...
Letters/232: To Havelock Ellis., Gersau, 12th May (Morning)., Going away, getting worse and worse. Don't know where to go. Have written to...
Letters/233: To Havelock Ellis., Clarens, 16th May., Tell me the address of a cheap respectable hotel in Paris. I am not better. I think I...
Letters/234: To Havelock Ellis., C/O Madame Lafargue, Paris, 24th May., Paris does my asthma good. But I feel very desolate here. Paris is...
Letters/235: To Havelock Ellis., 134, Rue D’assas, 26th May., Have got a little room here in a bad sort of house for ten francs a we...
Letters/236: To Havelock Ellis., Paris, 6th June., I have been waiting many days to write to you till I felt my brain so cool that I could...
Letters/237: To Havelock Ellis., Gore Road, London, 20th June., Do you know, I'm going to finish my book. I'm getting jolly hard, like I u...
Letters/238: To Havelock Ellis., London, 22nd July., My eyes seem sometimes blinded by agony. I don't know how I live.,
Letters/239: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., London, Aug., I am reading Jowett's Plato. God will have to give Jowett a front seat in the Kingdom o...
Letters/240: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., The Roughs, Yorkshire, 18th Aug., It's quite lovely here. Solitary little house, miles and miles of b...
Letters/241: To Havelock Ellis., London, 14th Sept., I've come here to get books. Can't find anything I want, but this is such a delightfu...
Letters/242: To Havelock Ellis., St. Leonards, 5th Oct., Could you get me a room, if you are going up to town, in a cheap bed and breakfas...
Letters/243: To Havelock Ellis., St. Leonards, 13th Oct., My Havelock, I am thinking of you. You must write and tell me about yourself. So...
Letters/244: To Havelock Ellis., Near Dover, 14th Oct., Feel so glad to be off. Don't forget your old comrade quite.,
Letters/245: To Havelock Ellis., Lungarno Acciajoli, Firenze, 18th Oct., Florence isn't a bit like I thought. It's the coldest place in th...
Letters/246: To Havelock Ellis., Florence, 20th Oct., I like Florence very much.,
Letters/247: To Havelock Ellis., Florence, 29th, Oct., Florence is beautiful beyond words. … The Pitti Gallery is lovely.,
Letters/248: To Havelock Ellis., Boboli Gardens, Florence, 30th Oct., I am sitting here at the foot of a statue. It is as it were the top ...
Letters/249: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 2nd Nov., In my old quarters. Slept at Genoa last night. Leaning Tower at Pisa splendid as seen ...
Letters/250: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 4th Nov., I am so glad to be back in Alassio. Oh, I love this place. "To-day there falls the dea...
Letters/251: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Alassio, 4th Nov., Have you read Memoirs of Madame De Remusat? It's one of the most fascinating books...
Letters/252: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Alassio, 7th Nov., I think I have passed through one of the happiest times of my whole life since I l...
Letters/253: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Alassio, 13th Nov., Yes, if one could live life over again with one's enlarged sympathies, how differ...
Letters/254: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 15th Nov., Got nice letter from Canon MacColl. On the 17th. Got nice letter from Gladstone's dau...
Letters/255: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 21st Nov., I have been sitting up to finish writing out a dream I am sending to Canon MacColl an...
Letters/256: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 24th Nov., What work I do is splendid, but my heart is somewhat like stone. Perhaps it is when o...
Letters/257: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 10th Dec, I love my new book so, a hundred times better than I ever loved An African Farm. …...
Letters/258: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 13th Dec., I wish you were here this evening and you and I would sit down on the floor before th...
Letters/259: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 12th Dec., I thought out that about Greece and Rome having fallen because of conditions of women...
Letters/260: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 14th Dec., I am working. But the last days I've got into the allegory state.,
Letters/261: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 18th Dec., Am working hard. Never come back to myself sometimes for a couple of days and that is...
Letters/262: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 22nd Dec., I cannot tell you what this air and blue sea and sky are to me now I love them. I am ...
Letters/263: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, Christmas Day., I send my love to you. The sun is shining. I haven’t done any work, quite ...
Letters/264: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 27th Jan., You don't realise what a very brave thing a man in Pearson's position has done in pri...
Letters/265: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Alassio, Jan., Please post the enclosed letter. I hope it's not rude, but I get so many letters that ...
Letters/266: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 1st Feb., I don't need anything just now; I've no time to make the dress if I had the material. ...
Letters/267: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 7th Feb., I have begun Italian. I shall get on very fast. Have you Boccaccio's stories in Italia...
Letters/268: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 9th Feb., I am all wild on the Mary Wollstonecraft Introduction. Will you tell me more about the...
Letters/269: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 9th Feb., You are quite wrong about my working a few hours every day. The way in which my brain ...
Letters/270: To Mrs. J. H. P.Hilpot., Alassio, 18th Feb., I get to my work which is sometimes writing, more often walking up and down my r...
Letters/271: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 20th Feb., Working night and day at Introduction to Mary W; love it better than anything I've wr...
Letters/272: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 5th March., That old terrible agony is on me to-night that comes whenever I let myself go. It se...
Letters/273: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 6th March., … You will enjoy Italy. I leave this on the 1st of May for Venice. To live so ...
Letters/274: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 9th March., Don’t mention to anyone Carpenter being here. I'm always trying to keep people...
Letters/275: To Mrs. Cawood., Alassio, ? March., I am getting on well; another person in health while I stop out of English cold. ... Who ...
Letters/276: To Mrs. Cawood., Alassio, 16th March., Yes, I will leave you something, my little brown box with all my relics in it, the las...
Letters/277: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 1st April., My own darling boy, I wonder if you like to get letters or if you are too ill to rea...
Letters/278: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 10th April., I'm so glad you are better. I'm not nearly so affectionate to you as I was! ... I'v...
Letters/279: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 18th April., I am so very anxious about you still. You thought me foolish to be so foolish when ...
Letters/280: To Havelock Ellis., Riva, Lago Di Garda, 6th May., Are you quite strong? You mustn't come out till I’ve finished my boo...
Letters/281: To Havelock Ellis., Riva, 13th May., I'm worse; going to try Paris. If I telegraph when there, can you come for a day or so? ...
Letters/282: To Havelock Ellis., Maidenhead, 20th May., I have made up my mind to go out to the Cape the week after next, and not to retur...
Letters/283: To Havelock Ellis., Maidenhead, 27th May., Is it nice in Devonshire? I am looking for a small workman's cottage in Surrey. I ...
Letters/284: To Havelock Ellis., Maidenhead, 5th June., Can you come on Friday? I go to-morrow to Harpenden to look for rooms. ... I ask o...
Letters/285: To Havelock Ellis., Maidenhead, 6th June., Please come on Friday. I do love you in a kind of way; it would come out if you ne...
Letters/286: To Havelock Ellis., Maidenhead, 11th June., Went to Harpenden, found cottage, rent £16 a year, going to move in next wee...
Letters/287: To Havelock Ellis., Harpenden, 18th June., I've been trying to get my tiny house cleaned out to-day. I haven't got my furnitu...
Letters/288: To Havelock Ellis., Harpenden, 28th June., Mrs. Walters has been here. I've been pitching into her and her paper more even th...
Letters/289: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Harpenden, 1st July., Did I ever tell you about the people I found in Germany when I went to the plac...
Letters/290: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Harpenden, 7th July., I'll like best of all a tiny workman's cottage unfurnished. I dare say that wou...
Letters/291: To Havelock Ellis., Harpenden, 19th July., I have been reading your Ibsen essay. It is nearly quite perfect. It is the first ...
Letters/292: To Havelock Ellis., Chertsey, Near Woking Station, 5th Aug., I'm going to try to want to work. It's so lovely to make stories...
Letters/293: To Havelock Ellis., Chertsey, 19th Aug., Last night I woke up crying, and it seemed to me something was the matter with you. ...
Letters/294: To Havelock Ellis., Chertsey, 21st Aug., I am going out to Alassio the end of next month, I think. I see they've got a nice l...
Letters/295: To Havelock Ellis., Chertsey, 23rd Aug., I send my love to you. Work hard, get on, be strong. When once we lose our strength ...
Letters/296: To Havelock Ellis., Chertsey, 26th Aug., It comforts me so that you say you love me a little. My brain and my body are breaki...
Letters/297: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Harpenden, Aug., A little allegory is coming out in next month's Woman’s World. It’s not ...
Letters/298: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., London Institution, Finsbury Circus, Aug., It will be many years before either of my books are ready,...
Letters/299: To Havelock Ellis., London, 2nd Sept., I've come in to get books and see Dr. Wilks but he's out of town. ... I've been readi...
Letters/300: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Harpenden, 5th Sept., How stupid people are that they can't understand that, just because one feels t...
Letters/301: To Havelock Ellis., Harpenden, 9th Sept., Will you please send one copy of The Woman's World, with my thing marked, to Stead ...
Letters/302: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Harpenden, 13th Sept., Don't trouble about it at all, dear friend. I am perhaps morbidly sensitive ab...
Letters/303: To Havelock Ellis., Harpenden, 13th Sept., You can come and see me if ever you feel inclined. Tell me the day before, so that...
Letters/304: To Havelock Ellis., Harpenden, 14th Sept., My sex book would do for your Science Series. It is a purely scientific collection...
Letters/305: To Havelock Ellis., Harpenden, 3rd Oct., I have bronchitis. I am very ill. If I am not better to-morrow I must get someone fr...
Letters/306: To Havelock Ellis., Harpenden, 3rd Oct. (second letter)., Oh, it is awful to be a woman. These women are killing me. Give my ...
Letters/307: To Havelock Ellis., Harpenden, 5th Oct., Louie was, as she always is, so splendid, and I was so horrid. Come and see me early...
Letters/308: To Havelock Ellis., 25, Montagu St., W.C., 7th Oct., You know I love you, but my power of expressing any feeling but pity is ...
Letters/309: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., St. Albans, Oct., My chest has been much worse this time in England than it ever was before. … ...
Letters/310: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 18th Oct., Dear Havelock boy, I am very loving to you. Please write and tell me about work and b...
Letters/311: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 22nd Oct., Mrs. Bland (“E. Nesbit”) was so kind to me before I left London. I don’...
Letters/312: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 26th Oct., I am working, so of course quite happy.,
Letters/313: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 28th Oct., I am very happy and peaceful here. This relief from physical agony is so glorious. It...
Letters/314: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Alassio, Oct., All goes splendidly with me. I am working hard and very happy. Nothing but work makes ...
Letters/315: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 2nd Nov., I am well and working, don't sometimes remember for two days who I am. The being able ...
Letters/316: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 2nd Nov. (second letter)., Please order for me a copy of your Ibsen and send it to my brother Fr...
Letters/317: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 7th Nov., How splendid your Ibsen Introduction is! The only bad line is about Congreve, and I be...
Letters/318: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 9th Nov., My whole theory is Crime is disease, treat it as disease.,
Letters/319: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 11th Nov., I've been working hard at my Mary Wollstonecraft all day. What troubles me is that I ...
Letters/320: To Mrs J. H. Philpot., Alassio, 15th Nov., I wish I could be as well anywhere in England as I am anywhere out of it. I was qu...
Letters/321: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Alassio (about same time)., When I've finished this book and the next, I'm going to sit on the seasho...
Letters/322: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 15th Nov., Yes, I get plenty to eat, etc. Yet I stop weak. ... You know either my Mary Wollstone...
Letters/323: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 17th Nov., I made a little Dream to-day, which I've sent to Miss Muller for her paper. Shall sen...
Letters/324: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 29th Nov., This house is unhealthy, the doctor says. How splendid it would be to have Louie with...
Letters/325: To Havelock Ellis., Mentone, 8th Dec., It's such a beautiful day here, quite perfect. I wish I could work. I ought to, but I ...
Letters/326: To Havelock Ellis., Mentone, 10th Dec., There's a Swede at this hotel who is in love with me. He puts little flowers by my pl...
Letters/327: To Havelock Ellis., Mentone, 14th Dec., Havelock, don't you know of anything I could take to strengthen my nerves? It's no go...
Letters/328: To Havelock Ellis., Mentone, 18th Dec., I have quite made up my mind to go to the Cape next winter, but don't talk of it; thi...
Letters/329: To Havelock Ellis., Mentone, 22nd Dec., Don't speak about those Dreams to me. I'm mad enough about it, as it is. I wrote the ...
Letters/330: To Havelock Ellis., Mentone, 23rd Dec., The enclosed is from the Swede. I value the love of people who don't know who I am an...
Letters/331: To Mrs. Mary King Roberts., Mentone., Our first duty is to develop ourselves. Then you are ready for any kind of work that co...
Letters/332: To Mrs. Mary King Roberts., Mentone., With regard to my view of the marriage question, it is very simple and just what it alw...
Letters/333: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Mentone, 4th Jan., I've had such a happy day, working all the time. People think I have a sad, lonely...
Letters/334: To Havelock Ellis., Mentone, 7th Jan., Is it you putting old Stead up to say I'm like Tolstoy! It's an extraordinary thing wh...
Letters/335: To Havelock Ellis., Mentone, 19th Jan., My Havelock, I am writing to you from simple outgoing of the heart this afternoon. It...
Letters/336: To Havelock Ellis., Mentone, 1st Feb., Havelock, I am so well and happy I can't understand it. It feels as if I don't mind an...
Letters/337: To Havelock Ellis., Mentone, 5th Feb., Harry Boy, it's a lovely morning, I'm going to work, but am shuffling out of it for a ...
Letters/338: To Havelock Ellis., Mentone, 9th Feb., I've a little Dream about Poet and Thinker. It's good, at least true. ... This house i...
Letters/339: To Havelock Ellis., Mentone, 10th Feb., I am getting strong like I used to be at the Cape. I am somewhat curious to know if I...
Letters/340: To Havelock Ellis., Mentone, 14th Feb., I often - no, I don't often, but I did just now - wonder what all my work would be li...
Letters/341: To Havelock Ellis., Mentone, 17th Feb., Terrible attack of asthma last night; can't make out why. All right to-day; working ...
Letters/342: To Havelock Ellis., Mentone, 19th Feb., I have just come up from dinner. I am sitting at my little table before the fire. The...
Letters/343: To Havelock Ellis., Mentone, 23rd Feb., I send a little Dream. If you think it's good enough for Fortnightly, send it on at o...
Letters/344: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Mentone, 17th March., I wish I was large and strong and could put my arms round all the tired lonely ...
Letters/345: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Paris, 26th March., I am making dreams here at a great rate; I always do in Paris. Only they are all ...
Letters/346: To Dr. King Roberts., Paris., I went to Notre Dame to-day. Isn't it glorious? It seems to me something I have been looking fo...
Letters/347: To Havelock Ellis., 25, Montagu St., London, 15th April., I came on Saturday evening, late. I like to think you are near. I a...
Letters/348: To Havelock Ellis., London, 25th April., Symons is a remarkable man. One can hardly say what he will be.,
Letters/349: To Havelock Ellis., Eastbourne, 9th May., I'm in a daze. Can't write. Going back to my little cottage at Knaphill to-morrow. ...
Letters/350: To Havelock Ellis., Knaphill, 17th May., Have very bad hay fever, am going to Brighton to look for rooms, and, if Brighton do...
Letters/351: To Havelock Ellis., Knaphill, 20th May., Am leaving for Brighton on Thursday But I doubt very much whether I ever shall be ab...
Letters/352: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Knaphill, 20th May., When all my work is done I'll go into Society-in another world. You know I would...
Letters/353: To Havelock Ellis., Medina Villas, West Brighton, 26th May., I don't think genius is at all less common among women than men,...
Letters/354: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Brighton, 29th May., Yes, I'm going to lunch with Gladstone and Bret Harte.,
Letters/355: To Havelock Ellis., Ladies' Chambers, Chenies St., London, 10th June., I can't work or think so I'm as well here as anywhere....
Letters/356: To Havelock Ellis., London, 23rd June., Yes, I am better than I have ever been in England. I am wanting to see you. That Frid...
Letters/357: To Havelock Ellis., London, 5th Aug., Will you come to see me some time next week? Ettie leaves on Friday and after that I sh...
Letters/358: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., London, 12th Aug., Stead came to see me on Saturday. I attacked him so violently for what I considere...
Letters/359: To Havelock Ellis., London, 28th Aug., This letter of Amy's may interest you. ... I am going to St. Leonard's with Amy Levy f...
Letters/360: To Havelock Ellis., Leas Hotel, Folkestone, 31st Aug., I’ve had to come on here because Amy Levy didn't like St. Leonar...
Letters/361: To Havelock Ellis., London, 7th Sept., I hope you will come on Monday. I shan't be able to go out for the day because it's Th...
Letters/362: To Havelock Ellis., Edinburgh House, St. Leonards, 17th Sept., I am writing this at once because I want you to get it before ...
Letters/363: To Havelock Ellis., London, 25th Sept., I am glad it was enjoyable in Paris. I am going up to London to-morrow to pack, to ge...
Letters/364: To Havelock Ellis., Eastbourne, 1st Oct., I got here all right. Old landlady stormed at me for walking up and down. Am out lo...
Letters/365: To Havelock Ellis., Eastbourne, 3rd Oct., Am all right to-day. Doctor injected morphia last night. My brother and sister are ...
Letters/366: To Havelock Ellis., Eastbourne, 6th Oct., I shall sail on Wednesday. Coming up to London by the early train. I have a nurse a...
Letters/367: To Havelock Ellis., London, 7th Oct., Am better this morning. Will write or telegraph soon as I know hour of sailing.,
Letters/368: (Same date.), Will you try to meet me at London Bridge on Wednesday morning and go with me to the Docks? It's a hard time her...
Letters/369: To Havelock Ellis., London, 8th Oct., Better meet me at the East India Dock Basin, on board the “Norham Castle.” ...
Letters/370: To Havelock Ellis., “Norham Castle,” 9th Oct., Thank you for coming. I will write long letters. You must get on w...
Letters/371: To Havelock Ellis., Lisbon, 12th Oct., Got here an hour ago. Going on this afternoon. Better, only so weak. Write to me often...
Letters/372: To Havelock Ellis., Cape Town, 6th Nov., I feel very loving to you. Please write to me. It is so nice here. I am so numb and ...
Letters/373: To Havelock Ellis., Ceres, 16th Nov., This is a little up-country village among the mountains. I got very ill at my beloved V...
Letters/374: To Havelock Ellis., Ceres, 17th Nov., I shall be so thankful when I can find a resting place to work in. Please send the £...
Letters/375: To Havelock Ellis., Ceres, 18th Nov., It is a beautifully hot day, such heat as is not known in England, hot and light. I sha...
Letters/376: To Havelock Ellis., Cape Town, 23rd Nov., Thank you for the book; it looks interesting, but, as far as I've glanced at it, mi...
Letters/377: To Havelock Ellis., Grahamstown, 27th Nov., I heard my mother was dying; the doctor telegraphed for me; I started on Friday e...
Letters/378: To Mrs. Mary King Roberts., Mount Vernon, Cape Town, 8th Dec., I've travelled nearly three thousand miles since I came to thi...
Letters/379: To Havelock Ellis., Cape Town, 10th Dec., I and my sister-in-law have been for a walk up in the fir woods this evening. It's ...
Letters/380: To Havelock Ellis., Mount Vernon, 18th Dec., I am sitting in my bedroom. “Dot" is sleeping on the bed. To-morrow they w...
Letters/381: To Havelock Ellis., Cape Town, 31st Dec., I wish you were in the sun with me a little. It's beautiful and hot. I am working. ...
Letters/382: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Mount Vernon, Cape Town, 31st Dec., With me all goes very well. The sunshine is beautiful and my peop...
Letters/383: To Havelock Ellis., Mount Vernon, Cape Town, 4th Jan., My Havelock, I am sending the MS. of the Allegories. Please take care ...
Letters/384: To Havelock Ellis., Cape Town, 7th Jan., You seem much depressed in your letters, Havelock. Perhaps it was only the weather. ...
Letters/385: To Havelock Ellis., Cape Town, 11th Jan., If you go to Paris, stop there, and, when I come back to Europe in a year or so, in...
Letters/386: To Havelock Ellis., Cape Town, 21st Jan., There's a little verandah here before the drawing-room with a vine growing over it ...
Letters/387: To Havelock Ellis., Cape Town, 30th Jan., I am working delightfully. Yesterday I climbed to the top of Signal Hill. It was gl...
Letters/388: To Havelock Ellis., Cape Town, 6th Feb., It will be lovely when you are in Paris. I shall never live in London again, but in ...
Letters/389: To Havelock Ellis., Cape Town, 13th Feb., Everyone here is very kind to. me. Sometimes when I go to pay a chemist he says he ...
Letters/390: To Havelock Ellis., Cape Town, 24th Feb., Old Rumenyi, the great Hungarian violin player, is in Africa. I am seeing a great d...
Letters/391: To Havelock Ellis., Mount Vernon, Cape Town, 3rd March., Old Rumenyi used to know George Sand well. He says I am so much like...
Letters/392: To Havelock Ellis., Cape Town, 7th March., I'm going to Matjesfontein on the 22nd of this month. ... Isn't it funny? My whole...
Letters/393: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Matjesfontein, 5th April., I have never had such perfect health for ten years, never since I left the...
Letters/394: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 11th April., It is late. I am sitting up in my little room waiting for the mail-train from...
Letters/395: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 12th April., It's funny that I write so little to you, and think so much of you! If anothe...
Letters/396: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 15th April., I have finished a chapter this evening, so my mind feels nice and free. Harry...
Letters/397: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 20th April., It is one of those glorious and beautiful days on which simply to be alive is...
Letters/398: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 28th April., I am curiously alive and at work again. I am not getting on very fast because...
Letters/399: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 12th June., Such a funny thing happened to me the other afternoon. I was very happy and we...
Letters/400: To Mrs. R. Cawood., Matjesfontein, 16th June., You are very wicked not to like my allegories. I only wish I was half as good ...
Letters/401: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 18th June., I enclose letter to Blackwood. Do the best you can about the MS. Take it to Un...
Letters/402: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 22nd June., I am going to Cape Town on Tuesday. I think I've told you this about ten times...
Letters/403: To Havelock Ellis., Cape Town, 25th June., If Blackwood doesn't want to have it, take the MS. from him and do the best you ca...
Letters/404: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 12th July., I spent some days in Worcester with Ettie on my way up and was very ill there....
Letters/405: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 18th July., I will come and stay with you and Louie, if you will have me, and you are not ...
Letters/406: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein., I've been talking so much to you all this week that now I sit down to write I seem to hav...
Letters/407: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 25th July., I've just got your letter. Thank you, but it wasn't a sweet letter. But one's ...
Letters/408: To Mrs. R. Cawood., Matjesfontein, Friday (? In 1890)., I have very bad asthma here; if it doesn't get better shall have to t...
Letters/409: To Mrs. R. Cawood., Matjesfontein (? In 1890)., Does Mr. Cawood know Lelie Kloof, and if he does how much is it worth?,
Letters/410: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 30th July., I am sending you old Chapman's letter to me. His two years' right to African F...
Letters/411: To Havelock Ellis,, Matjesfontein, 11th Aug., Boy, you seem so far away from me, hundreds of miles. I am sitting here alone i...
Letters/412: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 13th Aug., I've been writing and am now going to bed (10 o'clock). I am in all things able...
Letters/413: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 26th Aug., About Unwin's letter I'm sure you'll do much better than I should have done and...
Letters/414: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 4th Sept., I do not ever think I have misunderstood people, but I feel small things done i...
Letters/415: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 4th Nov., I have the most extreme humbleness with regard to my business faculties. I could...
Letters/416: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 6th Nov., The pain in my stomach that I used to get when I had to eat before people was re...
Letters/417: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 13th Jan., My Havelock, please do something for me. Write to the Nineteenth Century, the F...
Letters/418: To Havelock Ellis., Matjesfontein, 26th Jan., I cannot send the article this week. I must revise it first. It is much longer ...
Letters/419: To Mrs. R. Cawood., Matjesfontein, 1891., My darling friend, it is very sad to think I shall never see Elsie. I am so glad sh...
Letters/420: To Mrs. John Brown., Schoonder St., Gardens, Cape Town, 17th May., My dear Friend,, It seems so long since I wrote you. I've ...
Letters/421: To Miss Louie Ellis., Matjesfontein, 22nd Sept., Thank you for your beautiful letter. Dear, I looked quite beautiful in my dr...
Letters/422: To Miss Adela Villiers (later Mrs. Francis Smith)., Grahamstown, South Africa, 15th Jan., ... I'm having a very splendid time...
Letters/423: To Miss Louie Ellis., New College, Eastbourne, 25th May., I shall be back to-morrow. You don't know how sweet and good they a...
Letters/424: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Millthorpe (Sheffield), 11th Sept., The face has a very sweet almost childlike smile; in life its rea...
Letters/425: To Mrs. John Brown., Sheffield, 15th Sept., I am leaving for London on Monday to go to Eastbourne where I remain till I sail ...
Letters/426: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., England (? Millthorpe),? Sept., I send you two of my friend's photos. Please let me trust that you an...
Letters/427: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Middelburg (Cape), 8th Nov., I wish you could meet my friend. His tenderness and goodness to me are s...
Letters/428: To Havelock Ellis., Middelburg, 18th Feb., My Havelock and Edith, I am to be married on Saturday morning. I will write you ne...
Letters/429: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Krantz Plaats, 7th Mar., I am very well, and peacefully very happy. My dear husband is so tender and ...
Letters/430: To Miss Louie Ellis., Krantz Plaats, P.O. Halesowen, South Africa, 7th Mar., I wonder how the world goes with you. I was marr...
Letters/431: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Beach Hotel, East London, 13th Mar., , ...
Letters/432: To Miss Adela Villiers (later Mrs. Francis Smith)., Krantz Plaatz, Cradock, 21st April., ... You wouldn't know me again, I am...
Letters/433: To Mrs. John Brown., Krantz Plaats, 31st May., I know Cron would love you both. It is so beautiful to me the way in which he ...
Letters/434: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Krantz Plaats, 10th July., There's a great fuss among the servants to-night. Kroon, the Hottentot her...
Letters/435: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., The Homestead, Near Kimberley, 8th Aug., My husband says he's going to stay in the room all the while...
Letters/436: To S. C. C. S., Kimberley, 2nd Oct., Think out your speech for the Cradock dinner. I want it to be so good. ... It's wonderfu...
Letters/437: To S. C. C. S., Kimberley, 3rd Oct., It's strange to think you'll be at the old place, more instinct with intense emotion for...
Letters/438: To S. C. C. S., Kimberley, 7th Oct., It's strange how the slightest uncertainty distresses and unnerves me; I never knew anyo...
Letters/439: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Kimberley, 3rd Nov., I am writing the baby a little book; every day I write a little to it; so that, ...
Letters/440: To S. C. C. S., ?Kimberley, 28th Feb., While you are at Rondebosch go for a walk in my dear wood and see that old Summer Hous...
Letters/441: To S. C. C. S., Kimberley, 6th Mar., Dear love, it is terrible to love anything so much as I love you.,
Letters/442: To Mrs. John Brown., Kimberley, 7th Mar., Cron is away at Cape Town attending the Congress. ... I and my funny little help ar...
Letters/443: To Mrs. John Brown., (? Date.), You know that in the depths of my heart I have such a yearning pity for you. ... The infinite...
Letters/444: To S. C. C. S., Kimberley, 10th Mar., I am sure no child can ever realise what the feeling of a true “motherhearted" mo...
Letters/445: To J. T. Lloyd., Kimberley (apparently early in 1896)., Yes, I believe Rhodes has fallen for ever. My feelings are a strange ...
Letters/446: To J. T. Lloyd., Kimberley, 2nd Mar., What is the feeling at Johannesburg, that Rhodes will regain his power and carry out hi...
Letters/447: To J. T. Lloyd., Kimberley, ? Aug., No, I don't mind anything said about my books, they are given to the world. I don't like ...
Letters/448: To J. T. Lloyd., The Homestead, Kimberley, 14th Dec., I am sorry to leave this dear little house even for a year. Life has ne...
Letters/449: To J. T. Lloyd., Kimberley, Dec., I am copying out that book on South Africa - but really on everything in heaven and earth! ...
Letters/450: To Miss Adela Villiers (later Mrs. Francis Smith)., Morley's Hotel, Trafalgar Square, 12th July., ...The only point in which ...
Letters/451: To Miss Adela Villiers (later Mrs. Francis Smith.), Newlands, Cape Town, 10th Dec., ...Oh, this is a wicked wicked war. When ...
Letters/452: To Mrs. Mary King Roberts., Newlands, Capetown, 8th Jan., My husband, Cronwright Schreiner, is going home to England by this ...
Letters/453: To Mrs. Anna Purcell., Hanover, 30th Sept., Why is it that beautiful things make one cry, and terrible things only turn one h...
Letters/454: To Mrs. Anna Purcell., Hanover, 29th Nov., Did I tell you that we met General De Wet at Colesberg Junction and had ten minute...
Letters/455: To Mrs. J. H. Philpot., Hanover, 11th Mar., Yes, I long greatly sometimes to see my old friends. I was thinking last night ho...
Letters/456: To Miss Emily Hobhouse., Hanover, 3rd April., I have been reading your book., Given the conditions, it seems to me you have d...
Letters/457: To. Havelock Ellis., Hanover, 9th Nov., I have been reading for the first time in my life several French novels in succession...
Letters/458: To Havelock Ellis., Cape Town, 13th May., No, I don't agree that one wants sympathy and love less as one grows older. What I ...
Letters/459: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Cape Town, 14th May., ... The week after next Parliament ends, and we return to Hanover. It has been ...
Letters/460: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Hanover, South Africa, 12th July., ... I suppose there is no man in England who understands anything ...
Letters/461: To Miss Dora Cawood., Cape Town, 20th April., I have just seen the notice in the paper that my dearly loved old friend has go...
Letters/462: To Mrs. E. J. Stanley (Clifford Cawood)., Isn't it sad at Ganna Hoek now the dear wonderful spirit that seemed its life has g...
Letters/463: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Hanover, 10th Sept., ... Many people have been surprised that I said Heine's grave was the most sacre...
Letters/464: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, 11th Sept., ... I am now at De Aar in a strange sort of place they call an Hotel. It was buil...
Letters/465: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Hanover, 1st Feb., ... My friend Havelock Ellis, between whom and myself exists an absolutely unbroke...
Letters/466: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Hanover, 19th April., ... I hope next month to get away for a few days and go to see a Mission Statio...
Letters/467: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Hanover, 6th June., ... Yes, you are wonderfully right about my brother Will. He is the most generous...
Letters/468: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Sea Point, 25th Aug., ... Rather a beautiful little thing has happened since I was down here. One of ...
Letters/469: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, 22nd Oct., ... The most important event of my childhood was the birth of a little sister, and...
Letters/470: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Matjesfontein, 9th April., ... It's funny to me to think of your having the little son christened. It...
Letters/471: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Matjesfontein, 7th May., ... The Cape girl is so bound to think that all persons who are not quite yo...
Letters/472: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, 2nd June., ... It often has seemed to me that there is a form of danger for delicate women. I...
Letters/473: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Tamboer's Kloof, Cape Town, 27th June., ... I seem to have so strangely little connection with South ...
Letters/474: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, Sept., ... I have been re-reading that Elizabeth and her German Garden you sent me. It's very...
Letters/475: To Miss E. Hobhouse., (Undated.? De Aar, 1908.), ... When my husband comes down for the long session I shall try to find some...
Letters/476: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, 6th Nov., ... Long ago when I was a girl of 15, a girl whom I had known very slightly all my ...
Letters/477: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, 25th July., ... Before I was born my mother lost two children, a little son of five about six...
Letters/478: To Mrs. C. A. F. Rhys Davids., De Aar, 20th Aug., Thank you for the pamphlet; and thank you much more for your wish to dedica...
Letters/479: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, Oct., ... Isn’t it lovely we should both feel so much for our Winged Victories? Mine is...
Letters/480: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, 16th Oct., Yes, I know a great deal about Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy is I believe the great...
Letters/481: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Cape Town, Sunday Night, Oct., My darling, you’ve seemed so with me in thought all day. I've se...
Letters/482: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Cape Town, 5th Nov., ... Dear one, don't you see it's not the vote they are fighting for? It's freedo...
Letters/483: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Muizenberg, 14th Dec., ... Did you get my little Prelude? Please return it, darling. In the novel, wh...
Letters/484: To Mrs. Rhys Davids., De Aar, 12th April., I have been so ill for a long time I have not been able to write a real letter as ...
Letters/485: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, 19th April., ... A friend of mine in England has sent me a book called The Diary of a Lost On...
Letters/486: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, 5th May., ... Every woman who is thirty or over ought certainly to have her own "little foot ...
Letters/487: To Mrs. Anna Purcell., De Aar, 6th Aug., How strange it is that, after two thousand years, one should be able to lie on one's...
Letters/488: To Mrs. Anna Purcell., (Undated.), A superb translation in verse., Euripides is to me much greater than Shakespeare. If one o...
Letters/489: To Miss Louie Ellis., De Aar, 12th Oct., ... I wish often it were possible for me just once to visit England again so that I ...
Letters/490: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, 22nd Oct., ... We went to a Boer farm where there was a wedding (oh, such a quaint, grim wedd...
Letters/491: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Portlock, Near Graaff Reinet, 15th Nov., ... This is a beautiful wild solitary place on the very tops...
Letters/492: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Portlock, Graaff Reinet, 20th Nov., ... Have you read Gilbert Murray's translations of Euripides' pla...
Letters/493: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Portlock, Graaff Reinet, 12th Dec., ... If ever anyone were to try and write my life the thing they w...
Letters/494: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Portlock, Graaff Reinet, 9th Jan., ... I've had a letter that's made me so glad. A man who lives on a...
Letters/495: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Portlock, Graaff Reinet, 10th Jan., ... I've just got all the proofs of my Woman and Labour book and ...
Letters/496: To Mrs. Haldane Murray., De Aar, 2nd April., Just fancy, I got a long most sympathetic letter from old John X. Merriman about...
Letters/497: To Mrs. Pethick Lawrence., De Aar, 29th April., I am a very mild woman, but I would scalp my dearest friend if they tried to ...
Letters/498: To Havelock Ellis., De Aar (? June)., No, dear, I don't think it's because Ibsen wrote in a small country, or amid a simple l...
Letters/499: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, 8th May., The only things that still seem great to me are injustice and love. They are great,...
Letters/500: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, 13th May., ... Something interesting happened to me in Cape Town bearing on the question of t...
Letters/501: To Havelock Ellis., De Aar, May., ... My father was infinitely tenderer to us as children and had a much greater heart than m...
Letters/502: To Mrs. Francis Smith., Newlands, Cape Town, 11th June., Darling, I am here at Will's; I came down last Wednesday. On Thursda...
Letters/503: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar (? July)., ... I feel that the woman's movement is so vast that we all have quite distinct wor...
Letters/504: To Miss E. Hobhouse., De Aar, 22nd July., It is with such distress that I have just heard from Mrs. Murray that you are in En...
Letters/505: To Miss Emily Hobhouse., De Aar, 29th July., … I have never been able to add a line to any of my books since I saw you....
Letters/506: To Havelock Ellis., De Aar, 7th Aug., Dear old Havelock, I hope you will have a nice little time in France. Somehow I think o...
Letters/507: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, 12th Aug., ... I hope so much the Liberals are going to be defeated. Then I hope there will b...
Letters/508: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, Aug., ... Oh Adela, I have had such a lovely time. Will and his son Oliver came on Friday mor...
Letters/509: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, 27th Aug., ... I'll write about the suffragettes another day. I can understand your position ...
Letters/510: To Havelock Ellis., De Aar, Sept., Dear Havelock boy, you are unjust to me about sitting on a hill and seeing the worms crawl...
Letters/511: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, 5th Nov., ... I wonder what you would think of it if you could see this strange world of sand...
Letters/512: To Mrs. Stanley (Clifford Cawood)., ?Muizenberg, March., Have they finished the old house at Ganna Hoek, I wonder? Perhaps it...
Letters/513: To Miss E. Hobhouse., Muizenberg, Mar., ... It isn't the pain and weakness one minds, it's the not being able to work. My one...
Letters/514: To Havelock Ellis., Muizenberg, 23rd Mar., I’ll soon be going to De Aar. I'm so ill here that I look forward joyfully t...
Letters/515: To Mrs. Rhys Davids., De Aar, 13th April., Your P.S. about Trojan Women is most strange to me. If it is a sign of great minds...
Letters/516: To Havelock Ellis., De Aar, 12th May., I think I shall try to come to England if Cron goes. I shall try to borrow some money ...
Letters/517: To Havelock Ellis., De Aar, 20th May., Do you who know all about everything know of a good history of France, not too expensi...
Letters/518: To Mrs. Francis Smith., De Aar, 30th May., ... When I was a tiny child I too was always making stories and poems and I feel a...
Letters/519: To Miss E. Hobhouse., De Aar, 4th June., ... I don't know, dear, what I said to make you think I was opposed to the suffraget...
Letters/520: To Havelock Ellis., De Aar, 5th July., Adela Smith, to whom I wrote saying I shrank from seeing my friends again, being so ch...
Letters/521: To Mrs. Stanley (Clifford Cawood)., De Aar, 18th Oct., I am wondering how it is going with you all. Write and give me all the...
Letters/522: To Havelock Ellis., St. Mary Abbott's Terrace, Kensington, 5th Jan., We are just starting off. It was good to see you. Addres...
Letters/523: To Havelock Ellis., Grand Hotel, Alassio, 15th Jan., I haven't written because I've been six days in bed. Those terrible inte...
Letters/524: To Havelock Ellis., Alassio, 25th Jan., I'm well and happy here; the only thing is the time passes so quickly. I love Alassio...
Letters/525: To Havelock Ellis., Florence, 6th Mar., I've been as sick as a dog since I came here. The doctor says I'm too near the river ...
Letters/526: To Havelock Ellis., Florence, 10th Mar., I am now at the Palace Hotel, Lungarno Guicciadimi. I've got a little room on the ve...
Letters/527: To Havelock Ellis., Palace Hotel, Florence, 14th Mar., Write and tell me when you are coming and if you want me to take a roo...
Letters/528: To Havelock Ellis., Florence, 16th Mar., Dear Havelock Boy, don't come for my sake, I'm so sick and faint all the time it wil...
Letters/529: To Havelock Ellis., Florence, 7th April., I wish I'd been better when you were here but it was so beautiful to see you. I'll ...
Letters/530: To Havelock Ellis., St. Mary Abbott's Terrace, Kensington, 22nd April., I've just got here. I'm quite a different person from...
Letters/531: To Havelock Ellis., St. Mary Abbott's Terrace, Kensington, 28th April., Friday would suit me well, dear. I'll meet you at Cha...
Letters/532: To Havelock Ellis., London, 8th May., It's so bad that you are so far away. If you were near and could just run in we could s...
Letters/533: To Havelock Ellis., London, 1st June., I dread the journey. Nauheim is my last hope. I can't come to picture galleries or any...
Letters/534: To Havelock Ellis., Nauheim, 5th June., Arrived here yesterday. Wonderfully better for journey. This is a lovely place.,
Letters/535: To Havelock Ellis., Nauheim, 7th June., I am very well here. It seems to me the baths will do me great good. I'm so happy to ...
Letters/536: To Havelock Ellis., Nauheim, 30th June., Have you read Sudermann's book of short stories, Im Zweilicht? They are wonderful. I...
Letters/537: To Havelock Ellis., Oberhof, Thuringia, 12th July., We've been here two days. It's a little place on the top of the hills, wi...
Letters/538: To Havelock Ellis., Oberhof, 21st July., I am leaving Oberhof. Address care of the Countess von Moltke, Creisan, Schlesien. I...
Letters/539: To Havelock Ellis., Creisan, 26th July., I have the English Review. The tone seems to me to get lower and lower from a litera...
Letters/540: To Havelock Ellis., Berlin, 29th July., Am just leaving Berlin for Holland. Address care of Dr. Aletta Jacobs, Amsterdam., ...
Letters/541: To Havelock Ellis., Amsterdam, 1st Aug., I am, I think, leaving for London to-morrow, Sunday, if I can get through; perhaps M...
Letters/542: To Havelock Ellis., Kensington, 21st Aug., I'm still here as I've not been able to find a quiet place. I am troubled with the...
Letters/543: To Havelock Ellis., Kensington, 29th Sept., I am just starting for Hythe. I've taken rooms facing the sea, Bay View, West Par...
Letters/544: To Havelock Ellis., Hythe, 5th Oct., I don't know how long I shall be able to stand this mist and fog. ... Just now the landl...
Letters/545: To Havelock Ellis., London, 8th Oct., I am ill. But I think London is best. ... Goodbye, dear. The world has never seemed so ...
Letters/546: To Havelock Ellis., London, 13th Oct., I am going to-morrow to Durrants Hotel, Manchester Square. I hope I shall get better t...
Letters/547: To Havelock Ellis., Kensington Palace Mansions, 16th Oct., Yesterday at Durrants Hotel a boy brought a note. It ran: "Madam, ...
Letters/548: To Miss E. Hobhouse., Maver Lake, Bude., ... Again and again when I tried to get rooms they wouldn't let me have them on acco...
Letters/549: To Havelock Ellis., London, 2nd Nov., I wonder how you found your father. We are all in pretty deep waters! Affairs in South ...
Letters/550: To Havelock Ellis., London, 9th Nov., I could come on Thursday. I wish you didn't live so far. We might, if you lived near he...
Letters/551: To Havelock Ellis., London, 16th Nov., Dear, I found your letter here last night when I came home from Knebworth. It's beauti...
Letters/552: To Havelock Ellis., London, 7th Dec., Please thank Edith for her book. I'm ill in bed, not able to write. I've seen a special...
Letters/553: To Mrs. Pethick Lawrence., London, Friday (? 1914)., Oh, dear Friend, life is so grim now one cannot weep for our beloved dea...
Letters/554: To Havelock Ellis., London, 26th Jan., Did I tell you I went to the National Gallery, but found most of the pictures buried a...
Letters/555: To Havelock Ellis., London, 8th Mar., At last I really am better. What I've had was measles for the third time! After some da...
Letters/556: To Miss E. Hobhouse., London (? 1915)., ... Yes, there is a change of tone - it is principally caused by the rise of prices. ...
Letters/557: To Miss E. Hobhouse,, Kensington Palace Mansions (? Mar.)., I can imagine a "peace," quite as hideous and unjust, taking plac...
Letters/558: To Miss E. Hobhouse., London (? Mar.)., ... I would not go to that meeting even if I were well. I am so sick of English jingo...
Letters/559: To Mrs. Francis Smith., London (? 1915)., ... No, the only feeling I have about my life is that I have thrown it all away, do...
Letters/560: To Havelock Ellis., London, 9th Mar., Could you lend me your copy of Gibbon, if you have one? I need something to read so, an...
Letters/561: To Havelock Ellis., London, 31st Mar., I went to Dr. - , whom I was strongly advised to go to; he's a cad, not a gentleman. I...
Letters/562: To Mrs. Francis Smith., London, April., ... I must tell you about two such sweet little things that have happened. One is tha...
Letters/563: To Havelock Ellis., London, 16th April., I did not send my application for a passport to Alice Corthorn to sign (she's away i...
Letters/564: To Havelock Ellis., London, 23rd April., Could I come on Monday to lunch? Yes, over one hundred of us were on the list to go....
Letters/565: To Havelock Ellis., London, 30th April., Things are getting just unbearable here, and yet I can't leave lest I find myself in...
Letters/566: To Havelock Ellis., London, 2nd June., I wonder if you saw anything of the Zeppelins. I was so sorry I didn't. I was at the t...
Letters/567: To Mrs. Francis Smith., London, 18th June., ... It's the thought of all these beautiful young lives cut down before they have...
Letters/568: To Havelock Ellis., London, 2nd July., If I could get and work I should be so glad to live; but if I can't do anything, would...
Letters/569: To Miss E. Hobhouse., Llandrindod Wells (? 1915)., ... I am getting so mixed up. Sometimes I think this is England we are liv...
Letters/570: To Havelock Ellis., Llandrindod Wells, August., I'm so glad Mrs. Montefiore is coming. I hear she always stays at the hotel j...
Letters/571: To Havelock Ellis., Llandrindod Wells, 27th Aug., I'm glad to hear you are working. One's always happy when one can work. One...
Letters/572: To Mrs. Francis Smith., London, 2nd Jan., ... I'm very interested in a cat at the greengrocer's shop over the way, which talk...
Letters/573: To Mrs. Francis Smith., London, 21st Jan., ... I have heard from three people, belonging to very different sections of societ...
Letters/574: To Mrs. Francis Smith., London, late 1916., ... I'm determined whatever this war does it shall never divide between me and an...
Letters/575: To Havelock Ellis., 9, Porchester Place, 26th Mar., Dear old Havelock, I am sending to you a letter from my friend Dr. Green,...
Letters/576: To Mrs. Francis Smith., 9, Porchester Place., ... Would you, some time, tell me something: when you read that little "Prelude...
Letters/577: To Havelock Ellis., London, Oct., My dear old Havelock, I've been so unfit, dear, writing hasn't been possible. I can't breat...
Letters/578: To Havelock Ellis., London., I've been so ill, writing has been quite impossible. I've hardly been out. I hope you are having...
Letters/579: To Havelock Ellis., London, late 1919., I've been reading a new book they say is like Jane Austen. It's no more like Jane Aus...
Letters/580: To Mrs. Francis Smith., London, late 1919., ... I really like the Morning Post better than any of the other papers because it...
Letters/581: To Mrs. Francis Smith., London, late 1919., ... I've been reading such a beautiful book, Karl Liebknecht's speeches during th...
Letters/582: To Mrs. Francis Smith., 9, Porchester Place, London, late 1919., All day I have sat here in this room, sometimes looking out ...
Letters/583: To Havelock Ellis., London, Dec., It's just 12 o'clock. The middle of the night is the only time I can write because then the...
Letters/584: To Mrs. Francis Smith., 9, Porchester Place, London, Jan., ... No, people don't tire me. Unless they are personally very rude...
Letters/585: To Havelock Ellis., London, Jan., I'm afraid I was very stupid and uninteresting when we met. I'm sorry; I ought not to have ...
Letters/586: To Mrs. Francis Smith., 9, Porchester Place, London, 2nd Mar., ... I don't think I shall get better in Africa, as I might hav...
Letters/587: To Havelock Ellis., 9, Porchester Place, July., We must arrange to meet somewhere for lunch. Cron would so much like you to c...
SCCSLettersWTSteadLetters: NLSA Cape Town, Special Collections
SCCSTheLetters/Stead/1: Pine Grove, Hof Street, Cape Town (no date)., To W. T. Stead., The Roman Catholic is the best and greatest dead form of Chris...
SCCSTheLetters/Stead/2: (No date, no place. ?Cape Town.), To W. T. Stead., I shall never forget the stand you made for women eight years ago when my ...
SCCSTheLetters/Stead/3: Matjesfontein, 24th Sept., To W. T. Stead., The only thing I didn't like was your putting me on a par with Rhodes. He's much ...
SCCSTheLetters/Stead/4: (Undated.), To W. T. Stead., To me you will always be a personality of the most absorbing interest, never to be forgotten, ne...
SCCSTheLetters/Stead/5: Middelburg (Cape), Feb., To W. T. Stead., Neither on the subject of Christianity nor of sex have I gone from the standpoint o...
SCCSTheLetters/Stead/6: The Homestead, Kimberley, 25th Mar., To W. T. Stead., My married life satisfies even the high ideal of what marriage might be...
SCCSTheLetters/Stead/7: Grave Street, Cape Town. (No date. ?1896.), To W T. Stead., Each man's and woman's sex relations seem to me something holy, s...
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