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| Letter Reference | Rhodes Papers, MSS. Afr. s. 228, C27 (142) 12 |
| Archive | Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies, Rhodes House, University of Oxford |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | August 1891 |
| Address From | International Hotel, Gardens, Cape Town, Western Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Cecil John Rhodes |
| Other Versions | Rive 1987: 192 |
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 Cecil John Rhodes, August 1891, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies, Rhodes House, University of Oxford, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
Legend
The ‘three articles’ which Schreiner refers to in an excision are likely to be her ‘Returned South African’ ones, indicating a probable date of 1891 for this letter. She stayed in O’Callaghan’s International Hotel for part of August 1891, thus the dating of the letter.
1: Dear Mr Rhodes
2:
3: I shall be leaving Cape Town in about a fortnight. I want to have a
4: talk with you before I go, as I may not have a chance of meeting you
5: again before I leave Africa. Will you, if ever you have an hour to
6: spare, come & see me? I tell you frankly, it will be a favour to me &
7: help me in my work; but you must not allow this to influence you, if
8: you are not inclined to come, or feel the conventionalities of Cape
9: Town life make it fe difficult for a man to visit a woman as he would
10: another man. I have lived so long in a larger atmosphere that they
11: have almost lost this hold on me, & I am no judge in such matters.
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13: I should like to show you three articles I have I am often at the
14: library & Botanical Gardens in the morning; if it would be more
15: convenient for you to call there than to come up here. Don’t think I
16: have anything interesting or important to tell you, because I want to
17: have your opinion on some points rather than to give you mine.
18:
19: This note is for yourself; alone, not even for your secretary. You are
20: the only man in South Africa I would ask to come & see me, because I
21: think you are large enough to take me impersonally. If you don’t want
22: to come, simply don’t write. It will be all right.
23:
24: Yours faithfully,
25: Olive Schreiner
26:
Notation
Rive’s (1987) version of this letter is incorrect in minor ways.
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