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| Letter Reference | Edward Carpenter 359/75 |
| Archive | Sheffield Archives, Archives & Local Studies, Sheffield |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 31 August 1895 |
| Address From | The Homestead, Kimberley, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Edward Carpenter |
| Other Versions | Rive 1987: 258 |
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, 31 August 1895, Sheffield Libraries, Archives & Information, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
Legend
The Project is grateful to the Sheffield Archives, Sheffield Libraries, Archives and Information Services, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Archive Collections. The end of this letter may be missing.
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The Homestead
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Aug 31 / 95
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Dear Ed
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I sent you by last mail the paper on the Political Situation here. I
7: shall send you a few copies in pamphlet form soon. Do you think you
8: could get them noticed any where
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It’s really too bad that you English should send out your bloated
11: millionaires to eat us up! And the English people backing them &
12: calling it "extending the Empire"!
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14: ^Do you know there’s hope of my getting a first class post for Bob
15: out here? I think I shall get a nice situation for Mrs Walters eldest
16: son too.
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Edmund Garrett wrote a splendid leader on the woman’s question in
19: the paper ^^last week^^, of which he is the editor out here. Will you if
20: not too much trouble, send the papers I sent you on to Isabelle Ford,
21: I can’t get any more copies.
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Notation
The paper Schreiner refers to is her The Political Situation, which Cronwright-Schreiner read out as a public address in Kimberley Town Hall in August 1895. Edmund Garrett's 'splendid leader on the woman?s question' has not been established. Rive's (1987) version omits part of this letter and is also in a number of respects incorrect.
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