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Letter Reference | HRC/UNCAT/OS-4 |
Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
Epistolary Type | Letter |
Letter Date | Wednesday 12 November 1884 |
Address From | 144 Marina, St Leonards, East Sussex |
Address To | 24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London |
Who To | Havelock Ellis |
Other Versions | Draznin 1992: 210 |
Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
Legend |
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 has been dated by reference to information written onto it by Ellis. An associated envelope provides the address the letter was sent to. Schreiner was resident in St Leonards at different addresses from mid October 1884 to the end of April 1885.
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1Wednesday Night
26.40
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4Wilfred came this evening now he is gone. You are just getting to
5Anerly now I think. I feel somehow so happy.
6
7I will be able to work very much. I wish I had made my man happier.
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9But he was a little happy & he made me so happy.
10
11Olive
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13Later
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15I feel so quiet & happy. I am going to bed. Only just now when I
16passed the window & looked out at the lamps I wanted you so.
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18I didn’t pay him for the pens, but never mind.
19
26.40
3
4Wilfred came this evening now he is gone. You are just getting to
5Anerly now I think. I feel somehow so happy.
6
7I will be able to work very much. I wish I had made my man happier.
8
9But he was a little happy & he made me so happy.
10
11Olive
12
13Later
14
15I feel so quiet & happy. I am going to bed. Only just now when I
16passed the window & looked out at the lamps I wanted you so.
17
18I didn’t pay him for the pens, but never mind.
19
Notation
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.