"Work, isolation, getting away from people" Read the full letter
| Letter Reference | Mary Gladstone (Mrs Drew) Add. 46244, ff.166-167 |
| Archive | British Library, Department of Manuscripts, London |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Thursday May 1888 |
| Address From | 6 Great Ormond Street, Bloomsbury, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Mary Drew nee Gladstone (m. 1886) |
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| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| Legend |
The Project is grateful to the British Library for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Special Collections. The date of the letter as 'end of May' has been written on in an unknown hand.
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6 Gt Ormond St
2 London WC
3 Thursday
4
5 Dear Mrs Drew
6
7 I returned to England two weeks ago. I have not quite arranged my
8plans, but do not ^hope^ to be here more than a few weeks before I
9return to the Cape or Riviera.
10
11 If there were any possibility of it I should like a great deal to see
12you but I never go out, & can hardly hope you will find yourself in
13this unknown part of London.
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15 I've not yet read the New Antigone; am going to this week. I am busy
16with Kenricks Ancient Egypt just now, a delightful book to read in
17London because it takes me so entirely out of it.
18
19 Believe me,
20 Yours faithfully
21 Olive Schreiner
22
2 London WC
3 Thursday
4
5 Dear Mrs Drew
6
7 I returned to England two weeks ago. I have not quite arranged my
8plans, but do not ^hope^ to be here more than a few weeks before I
9return to the Cape or Riviera.
10
11 If there were any possibility of it I should like a great deal to see
12you but I never go out, & can hardly hope you will find yourself in
13this unknown part of London.
14
15 I've not yet read the New Antigone; am going to this week. I am busy
16with Kenricks Ancient Egypt just now, a delightful book to read in
17London because it takes me so entirely out of it.
18
19 Believe me,
20 Yours faithfully
21 Olive Schreiner
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Notation
The books referred to are: William Barry (1887) The New Antigone London: Macmillian & Co; John Kendrick (1850) Ancient Egypt Under the Pharaohs London: Fellowes.
The books referred to are: William Barry (1887) The New Antigone London: Macmillian & Co; John Kendrick (1850) Ancient Egypt Under the Pharaohs London: Fellowes.