1 Grand Hotel
2 Alassio
3 Italy
4 Jan 16 / 88
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6 Dear Mrs Drew
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8 //Thank you very much for your letter. Thank you also for the card.
9The writer must be very interesting from what you tell me.
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11 Thank you for the little poem also I think it is very beautiful. I
12should like much to see the stories. Have they been printed? If you
13sent them me here I should take great care of them & return them, as
14I'm not going to London this summer. I am going for a long walking
15tour, by myself, in Austrian Tyrol.
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17 I don't think the little dream had a moral! It's just, you know, an
18expression of certain feelings that come to me: not very j clearly put
19together. I don't know why I sent it to Mr MacColl. There are some
20things one can feel, but never very clearly express to another, or to
21oneself in words. The great joy one feels at the sense of unity in
22things, & how that consciousness helps one to rise above the little
23selfish griefs & passions of life when nothing else can. I think the
24only place were it is expressed is in the Confessions of St. Augustine,
25 where he & his mother stand at the open window. Isn't all the
26relation between those two beautiful the most beautiful relation that
27ever existed between a man & a woman. I sometimes dream that perhaps
28one day such relations will not be as un-common among men & women as
29they are now. that men will often feel that their mother's have born
30them "once with the body & again with the spirit." Have you any
31children? I think it must be such a beautiful thing to have a child,
32more beautiful than writing a book. Thankyou very much for your letter.
33 I liked it very much.
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35 Yours very sincerely
36 Olive Schreiner
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