"Trying to help Will Schreiner politically; I want 'She wrote Peter Halket' on my grave; it's what it cost me" Read the full letter
| Letter Reference | HRC/UNCAT/OS-65 |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Saturday 22 August 1885 |
| Address From | 16 Portsea Place, Westminster, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Havelock Ellis |
| Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 80; Draznin 1992: 376-7 |
| 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. Schreiner was resident at Portsea Place from mid August to late October 1885.
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1Saturday Morning
2
3My Havelock, I thought about you so much in bed last night. Sweet
4comrade, you mustn’t feel life blank like I do.
5
6I wish I had asked to come here today to see Mrs. Walters Perhaps you
7will think of it yourself. I took cold again & don’t know if I will
8be able to go to the Dem. I won’t if it doesn’t get fine. Doctor
9Donkin came yesterday afternoon for a few minutes. I think he is going
10out in the country to day.
11
12Your little comrade.
13Olive
14
15If you are made unhappy by the thought of my marrying that needn’t
16be, because I shall never marry anyone, all such
17
18^love is never for me.^
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2
3My Havelock, I thought about you so much in bed last night. Sweet
4comrade, you mustn’t feel life blank like I do.
5
6I wish I had asked to come here today to see Mrs. Walters Perhaps you
7will think of it yourself. I took cold again & don’t know if I will
8be able to go to the Dem. I won’t if it doesn’t get fine. Doctor
9Donkin came yesterday afternoon for a few minutes. I think he is going
10out in the country to day.
11
12Your little comrade.
13Olive
14
15If you are made unhappy by the thought of my marrying that needn’t
16be, because I shall never marry anyone, all such
17
18^love is never for me.^
19
Notation
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) extract is incorrect in various ways.