Olive Schreiner Letters Online

Letter Reference	Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold1/1892/4
Archive	University of Cape Town, Manuscripts & Archives, Cape Town
Epistolary Type	Letter
Letter Date	23 September 1892
Address From	Matjesfontein, Western Cape
Address To
Who To	William Philip ('Will') Schreiner
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1:  Matjesfontein
2:  Sep 23 / 92
3: 
4:  Dear Boy
5: 
6:  I send you Forts letters. I hope you’ve got the key of his box with
7:  you. I shouldn’t like to think anyone else could get at it. I am
8:  longing to hear of your time in Old England. It’s curious how I long
9:  to be back there now, though I shall long sorely for African summers &
10:  African skies.
11: 
12:  I sent our little ones off a box of Karroo flowers this morning. I
13:  wish Dot belonged to me. God might have given her to me. I’m going
14:  down to see them next month.
15: 
16:  Tell a body about what you do & see a little. There’s no news here.
17: 
18:  Good bye old man
19:  Olive
20: 
21:  P.S. I wish if you see Ellis you would do me a great favour. Ask him
22:  to show you the agreement with Unwin about Dreams, & just write me ^no
23:  you can tell me when you can^ your opinion whether legally it gives
24:  Unwin
25: 
26:  1st, Any claim to continue publishing the book if I wish to put it
27:  into the hands of another man; it seems to me that it gives him the
28:  right to publish it only as long as I wish it?
29: 
30:  2nd, Whether from the wording of the agreement it gives gives Unwin
31:  the right to determine at what price it shall be brought out. I want
32:  it brought out still at 6/- He says he has a right to bring it out at
33:  what each price he likes & if he chooses will bring it out in a paper
34:  cover at 1/- which will be an immense loss to me.
35: 
36:  I see nothing in the agreement determining that he & not I am to
37:  direct the price. Don’t see Ellis about it if h you have no time, but
38:  I should like your opinion. In case Ellis hasn’t a copy of the
39:  agreement I enclose the spare which can be sent to
40: 
41:  ^Unwin. I’m so sorry about it, but after what he wrote to me I let the
42:  matter pass it will imply I think he has the right.^
43: 
44:  ^See Ellis before you send note to Unwin.^
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