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| Letter Reference | HRC/UNCAT/OS-80 |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Wednesday 9 December 1885 |
| Address From | 9 Blandford Square, Paddington, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Havelock Ellis |
| Other Versions | Draznin 1992: 392 |
| 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 in Blandford Square from the end of November 1885 to mid January 1886, when she left London for the Isle of Wight.
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1Wednesday
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3I’ve got a bad cold. Can’t write. I do like your article. Your style
4is beautiful, but your strength lies not in criticism, you are best
5when you are least critical & most sympathetic I can’t keep my eyes open
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7Send back.
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9OS
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3I’ve got a bad cold. Can’t write. I do like your article. Your style
4is beautiful, but your strength lies not in criticism, you are best
5when you are least critical & most sympathetic I can’t keep my eyes open
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7Send back.
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9OS
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Notation
What Ellis was to 'Send back' cannot be established. Schreiner’s comment is about Ellis’s criticism article: Havelock Ellis (1885) ‘The Present Position of English Criticism’ Time December 1885. Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.
What Ellis was to 'Send back' cannot be established. Schreiner’s comment is about Ellis’s criticism article: Havelock Ellis (1885) ‘The Present Position of English Criticism’ Time December 1885. Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.