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| Letter Reference | HRC/CAT/OS/5b-i |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Thursday 20 April 1916 |
| Address From | Alexi, 31 The Park, Hampstead, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Havelock Ellis |
| Other Versions | Draznin 1992: 508 |
| 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. In the absence of other information, dating this letter has followed Draznin (1992), who has done so by reference to a version in the Lafitte Letters typescript in the British Library.
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1Alexi
2Thursday
3
4Dear Havelock
5
6I had a letter from Edith by this post. It’s beautifully written &
7quite clear, but not quite herself. I wish I could see you to talk
8about some things I can’t write about I could meet you nearly any
9time in London if you let me know in time. I have to go to Crowborough
10on Tuesday & shall not be back till Wednesday or Thursday.
11
12If Sunday Saturday suited you I could meet you in the entrance hall at
13Lyone’s big new pal place just below Charing Cross Station, (more
14towards Trafalgar Sq where all the buses stop at 10 clock If I don’t
15hear you I shall know you will not be there.
16
17If Saturday won’t do could you meet me there Sunday at 1. I
18wouldn’t trouble you but I want to talk about some things to you
19
20Olive
21
22I am quite close to the ^Museum^ station at Golder’s Green
23
2Thursday
3
4Dear Havelock
5
6I had a letter from Edith by this post. It’s beautifully written &
7quite clear, but not quite herself. I wish I could see you to talk
8about some things I can’t write about I could meet you nearly any
9time in London if you let me know in time. I have to go to Crowborough
10on Tuesday & shall not be back till Wednesday or Thursday.
11
12If Sunday Saturday suited you I could meet you in the entrance hall at
13Lyone’s big new pal place just below Charing Cross Station, (more
14towards Trafalgar Sq where all the buses stop at 10 clock If I don’t
15hear you I shall know you will not be there.
16
17If Saturday won’t do could you meet me there Sunday at 1. I
18wouldn’t trouble you but I want to talk about some things to you
19
20Olive
21
22I am quite close to the ^Museum^ station at Golder’s Green
23
Notation
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.
Draznin's (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.