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| Letter Reference | HRC/OliveSchreinerLetters/OS-JohnHodgson/47 |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Monday September 1918 |
| Address From | 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, Westminster, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | John Hodgson |
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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 John Hodgson, September 1918, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
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The Project is grateful to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. This letter can be dated by reference to Schreiner’s weekend visit to the Pethick-Lawrence’s country house in September 1918. Schreiner was resident at Porchester Place from early April 1917 until August 1920, when she left Britain for South Africa.
1: Monday.
2:
3: Dear John
4:
5: Thanks for letter & books. I’ve sent the parcel on to Ursie.
6:
7: I’ve just this moment come back from three blissful days with my
8: friends in the country. They have a delightful stage manager staying
9: with them & his wife a delightful intellectual little actress who acts
10: under the name of Muriel Pratt. We spent all out time under the apple
11: trees in the garden & had all our meals out of doors. They live in a
12: lovely old farmhouse a mile away from any other house. We were all of
13: one mind & one spirit about nearly every thing - & its seldom you can
14: find five human beings together in such perfect harmony. They were
15: great suffragettes. When I asked my friend if if she knew Joan she
16: burst out in her praise. She said she was quite the most beautiful &
17: most charming woman they had ever had among the suffragettes so I was
18: quite delighted. I feel so low spirited I could sit & howl coming back
19: to my lonely little room out of that warm atmosphere of love &
20: fellowship.
21:
22: I’m going to rush out & get on the top of an omnibus.
23:
24: Give my love to Joan
25: Your small aunt
26: Olive
27:
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