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Letter ReferenceEdward Carpenter 359/22
ArchiveSheffield Archives, Archives & Local Studies, Sheffield
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date After Start: 1887 ; Before End: 1888
Address FromAlassio, Italy
Address To
Who ToEdward Carpenter
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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 Edward Carpenter, 1887, Sheffield Libraries, Archives & Information, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.

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The Project is grateful to the Sheffield Archives, Sheffield Libraries, Archives and Information Services, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Archive Collections. Schreiner stayed in Alassio from late October 1887 to February 1888 and from early April to May 1888. This letter has been dated accordingly, as content indicates Schreiner was in Italy or perhaps France.

1:  Is there no possibility of your coming to see me for a time in the
2:  summer or autumn. I should of course tell you if I didn’t want you
3:  when you wrote to say you were coming. You are helpful & pleasant to
4:  me. ^And I’m unpleasant but not unhealthful for you!!!^ It would be
5:  something to look forward to. I had it sorely in my heart to ask you
6:  to meet me at Geneva, & go on to Venice with me. But just now you have
7:  too many problems to work out & need to be left alone. You wouldn’t
8:  have come.
9: 
10:  Good bye, Edward.
11:  Send me your socialist group
12: 


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