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| Letter Reference | Karl Pearson 840/4/1/91 |
| Archive | University College London Library, Special Collections, UCL, London |
| Epistolary Type | Postcard |
| Letter Date | 8 December 1885 |
| Address From | 9 Blandford Square, Paddington, London |
| Address To | 2 Harcourt Buildings, Temple, London |
| Who To | Karl Pearson |
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| Legend |
The Project is grateful to University College London (UCL) and its Library Services for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner postcard, which is part of its Special Collections. The date has been derived from the postmark on this postcard, while the name of the addressee and the address it was sent to are on its front. Schreiner was resident in Blandford Square from the end of November to mid January 1886, when she left London for the Isle of Wight.
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Thursday at 5 will suit me. If I should not come don’t wait.
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3 Thank you for the lecture. I sympathize more with the underlying idea
4expressed in it than with anything I have yet seen of yours. I think
5your words completely veil your meaning from those who have not
6already the idea. Some who were there completely misunderstood you.
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3 Thank you for the lecture. I sympathize more with the underlying idea
4expressed in it than with anything I have yet seen of yours. I think
5your words completely veil your meaning from those who have not
6already the idea. Some who were there completely misunderstood you.
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Notation
The lecture Schreiner refers to is most likely: Karl Pearson (1885) 'Enthusiasm of the Market-Place and of the Study. A Discourse delivered at South Place Chapel, Finsbury, E.C. on Sunday 29 November 1885', later published in his The Ethic of Freethought: A Selection of Essays and Lectures London: T. Fisher Unwin.
The lecture Schreiner refers to is most likely: Karl Pearson (1885) 'Enthusiasm of the Market-Place and of the Study. A Discourse delivered at South Place Chapel, Finsbury, E.C. on Sunday 29 November 1885', later published in his The Ethic of Freethought: A Selection of Essays and Lectures London: T. Fisher Unwin.