"Getting in Dutch vice president of Women's Enfranchisement League, Mrs MacFadyen, we have to educate women in South Africa slowly" Read the full letter
| Letter Reference | HRC/UNCAT/OS-97 |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 14 May 1886 |
| Address From | St Dominic?s Convent, Mutrix Road, Kilburn, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Havelock Ellis |
| Other Versions | Draznin 1992: 415 |
| 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 lived at St Dominic?s Convent in Kilburn from early April to mid May 1886.
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1The eggs were so nice. I boiled some in my little pot. You & I must go
2to the ?Colonie’s some day my Havelock
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4Your letter is so precious to me. I’m not worth loving so much. I
5hope you liked M Field. What is she like.
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7Olive
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2to the ?Colonie’s some day my Havelock
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4Your letter is so precious to me. I’m not worth loving so much. I
5hope you liked M Field. What is she like.
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7Olive
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Notation
A version of this letter is in Draznin (1992).
A version of this letter is in Draznin (1992).