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Letter ReferenceEdward Carpenter 359/71
ArchiveSheffield Archives, Archives & Local Studies, Sheffield
Epistolary TypePostcard
Letter Date2 March 1894
Address FromHalesowen, Eastern Cape
Address ToMillthorpe, Holmesfield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Who ToEdward Carpenter
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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 Edward Carpenter, 2 March 1894, Sheffield Libraries, Archives & Information, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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The Project is grateful to the Sheffield Archives, Sheffield Libraries, Archives and Information Services, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner postcard, which is part of its Archive Collections. The date of this postcard is provided by the postmark, while the address it was sent to is on its front.

1:  Dear E.C.
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3:  I was married last Saturday. I am turning into an old farmers wife. I
4:  got your sex pamphlet: it’s splendid. Cron sends his love to you. We
5:  have your picture on our bedroom mantelpiece. Address Mrs Olive
6:  Schreiner, PO Halesowen, ^South Africa^
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Notation
The pamphlet referred to is: Edward Carpenter (1894) Sex-Love, and its place in a free society Manchester: Labour Press Society.


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