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| Letter Reference | HRC/CAT/OS/5a-xi |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 23 June 1914 |
| Address From | Hotel August Victoria, Bad Nauheim, Germany |
| Address To | 14 Dover Mansions, Canterbury Road, Brixton, London |
| Who To | Havelock Ellis |
| Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 334-5; 335; Draznin 1992: 487 |
| 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. The letter is on printed headed hotel notepaper with the emblem of a crown on it.
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1Hotel August Victoria
2Bad Nauheim
3
4My dear Havelock
5
6Two women who say they are great friends of Ediths are coming to see
7me this afternoon a Miss Deane and a Mrs Sawyer. It’s been a bad day
8pouring rain & thunder. Wonderfull lightning. I have been reading a
9rather original German book called ^“Vier Geschichten aus Kinderland by
10“Stefan Zweig”^ It ought to be translated into English. Its not first
11rate of course – but quite as good as most new English books. I am
12stronger but how much better I can’t say till the cure is over.
13
14Wednesday I went to Frankfurt today and saw Goethe’s ^?Fralhin^ – quite
15unchanged. The old books, Goethe’s old desk at which he wrote as a
16youth. It touched me infinitely more than I had ever expected – & it
17brought me back all my own youth when I loved him so intensely & read
18him so much. There is a wonderful picture pained of him just before he
19died – the real Goethe!
20
21Good by dear
22Olive
23
24Mrs. Sawyer seemed a very nice pretty woman. Miss Deane is I should
25say good hearted but not very much my
26
27^style.^
28
2Bad Nauheim
3
4My dear Havelock
5
6Two women who say they are great friends of Ediths are coming to see
7me this afternoon a Miss Deane and a Mrs Sawyer. It’s been a bad day
8pouring rain & thunder. Wonderfull lightning. I have been reading a
9rather original German book called ^“Vier Geschichten aus Kinderland by
10“Stefan Zweig”^ It ought to be translated into English. Its not first
11rate of course – but quite as good as most new English books. I am
12stronger but how much better I can’t say till the cure is over.
13
14Wednesday I went to Frankfurt today and saw Goethe’s ^?Fralhin^ – quite
15unchanged. The old books, Goethe’s old desk at which he wrote as a
16youth. It touched me infinitely more than I had ever expected – & it
17brought me back all my own youth when I loved him so intensely & read
18him so much. There is a wonderful picture pained of him just before he
19died – the real Goethe!
20
21Good by dear
22Olive
23
24Mrs. Sawyer seemed a very nice pretty woman. Miss Deane is I should
25say good hearted but not very much my
26
27^style.^
28
Notation
The book referred to is: Stefan Zweig (1911) Vier Geschichten aus Kinderland Leipzig: Insel. 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.
The book referred to is: Stefan Zweig (1911) Vier Geschichten aus Kinderland Leipzig: Insel. 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.