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| Letter Reference | HRC/UNCAT/OS-84 |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Sunday 14 February 1886 |
| Address From | 5 Sea View Terrace, West Hill Road, Bournemouth, Dorset |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Havelock Ellis |
| Other Versions | Draznin 1992: 401-2 |
| 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 a number of addresses in Bournemouth from mid February to mid March 1886.
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1Sunday Eve
2
3I have been reading your religion paper. It has been sweet & restful
4to me, quite a help. Other people wouldn’t understand it thought, it’s
5just note thrown together, the connection not always clear, but it
6seems such an expression of your sweet self to me tonight. All day I
7had^sat^ here shivering in this great room while the rain poured outside.
8 This evening I went out. I got past the houses & walked through the
9mud & sand among the gorse & pines, & there was a strange lurid wet
10sunset I came home cold & weary
11
12^but now I have read your paper I feel warmer. Your other self.^
13Olive
14
15^Please write to me when you feel in the mood Your letters are so much
16to to me.^
17
18O.S.
19
2
3I have been reading your religion paper. It has been sweet & restful
4to me, quite a help. Other people wouldn’t understand it thought, it’s
5just note thrown together, the connection not always clear, but it
6seems such an expression of your sweet self to me tonight. All day I
7had^sat^ here shivering in this great room while the rain poured outside.
8 This evening I went out. I got past the houses & walked through the
9mud & sand among the gorse & pines, & there was a strange lurid wet
10sunset I came home cold & weary
11
12^but now I have read your paper I feel warmer. Your other self.^
13Olive
14
15^Please write to me when you feel in the mood Your letters are so much
16to to me.^
17
18O.S.
19
Notation
An Ellis religion paper cannot be traced although he had earlier published a relevant one on Hinton: Havelock Ellis (1881) 'James Hinton As a Religious Thinker' Modern Review July 1881, 2: 661-87. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.
An Ellis religion paper cannot be traced although he had earlier published a relevant one on Hinton: Havelock Ellis (1881) 'James Hinton As a Religious Thinker' Modern Review July 1881, 2: 661-87. Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.