"Writing, retouching, ambition" Read the full letter
| Letter Reference | HRC/CAT/OS/FRAG/SofLp |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Monday 22 December 1884 |
| Address From | Alexandra House, Denmark Place, Hastings, East Sussex |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Havelock Ellis |
| Other Versions | Draznin 1992: 273 |
| 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. In the absence of other information, dating this letter has followed Draznin (1992), who has done so by reference to a version in the Lafitte Letters typescript in the British Library. Schreiner was resident at two addresses in Hastings from the end of November 1884 to the end of April 1885.
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1Monday
2
3Please post the enclosed to Mrs Cobb at once. My sweet darling, I like
4you to see every thing I write & know every thing I do. The idea I
5express in Mrs Cobbs letter would be the key note of my article if I
6wrote it.
7
8Olive
9
10^I am better today than I have been for the last week.^
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3Please post the enclosed to Mrs Cobb at once. My sweet darling, I like
4you to see every thing I write & know every thing I do. The idea I
5express in Mrs Cobbs letter would be the key note of my article if I
6wrote it.
7
8Olive
9
10^I am better today than I have been for the last week.^
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Notation
Schreiner's 'my article if I wrote it' refers to a paper she was to have presented to the Men and Women?s Club but never completed. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.
Schreiner's 'my article if I wrote it' refers to a paper she was to have presented to the Men and Women?s Club but never completed. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.