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| Letter Reference | HRC/CAT/OS/3a-xix |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Saturday 29 November 1884 |
| Address From | Alexandra House, Denmark Place, Hastings, East Sussex |
| Address To | 24 Thornsett Road, South Penge Park, London |
| Who To | Havelock Ellis |
| Other Versions | Draznin 1992: 234 |
| 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 an associated envelope and its postmark, which also provides the address it was sent to. Schreiner was resident at two addresses in Hastings from the end of November 1884 to the end of April 1885.
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1Sat. Morn.
212.30
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4I haven’t got a letter from my boy yet. I will get it this evening.
5
6I wish I had stayed at Marina. I am worse today. But perhaps I will
7get better by & by.
8
9I am writing with your pencil Olive
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11Sometimes the expectoration is streaked with blood, generally it is
12white with black streaks in it. The pain under the shoulder get more &
13more. I can’t sit upright & I can’t lie down. I wonder if it is
14
15^asthma or what.^
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17^Tell me little things that I may forget.^
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212.30
3
4I haven’t got a letter from my boy yet. I will get it this evening.
5
6I wish I had stayed at Marina. I am worse today. But perhaps I will
7get better by & by.
8
9I am writing with your pencil Olive
10
11Sometimes the expectoration is streaked with blood, generally it is
12white with black streaks in it. The pain under the shoulder get more &
13more. I can’t sit upright & I can’t lie down. I wonder if it is
14
15^asthma or what.^
16
17^Tell me little things that I may forget.^
18
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.