"I was bleeding to death, you saved my life" Read the full letter
| Letter Reference | HRC/UNCAT/OS-85 |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 8 March 1886 |
| Address From | Bournemouth, Dorset |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Havelock Ellis |
| Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 94; Draznin 1992: 406-7 |
| 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 a number of addresses in Bournemouth from mid February to mid March 1886.
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1Sweet boy, I have bad asthma. I am going to write a book “For those in
2physical suffering,” you are to have it after I am dead, & publish it
3without my name. I will tell my brother to give it you. You are to
4have all my papers when I die except any he wants. I am going to
5
6^make a will. I^
7
8^may live for thirty years but I may also not^
9
10Olive
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2physical suffering,” you are to have it after I am dead, & publish it
3without my name. I will tell my brother to give it you. You are to
4have all my papers when I die except any he wants. I am going to
5
6^make a will. I^
7
8^may live for thirty years but I may also not^
9
10Olive
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Notation
Schreiner did write something ‘for those in physical suffering’, but it remained a short letter-like statement rather than a book. Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. A version also appears in Cronwright-Schreiner (1924).
Schreiner did write something ‘for those in physical suffering’, but it remained a short letter-like statement rather than a book. Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription. A version also appears in Cronwright-Schreiner (1924).