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| Letter Reference | HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/15 |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Postcard |
| Letter Date | March 1891 |
| Address From | Matjesfontein, Western Cape |
| Address To | Paternoster Square, City, London |
| Who To | T. Fisher Unwin |
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| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
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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 postcard, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. The month and year has been derived from the postmark on this postcard and the address it was sent to is on its front.
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1Please write & say that I know nothing whatever of that allegory. It
2is evidently a forgery; several such have been circulated here lately.
3Have no idea who the write is. Please send me the review in the
4unreadable if you should have it! It is so nice to have a publisher in
5whom I have as much confidence as I have in you.
6
7Olive Schreiner
8Matjesfontein
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10^Will you kindly send Roberts Brothers, at once, a copy of the portrait
11in the latest Edition of Dreams.^
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2is evidently a forgery; several such have been circulated here lately.
3Have no idea who the write is. Please send me the review in the
4unreadable if you should have it! It is so nice to have a publisher in
5whom I have as much confidence as I have in you.
6
7Olive Schreiner
8Matjesfontein
9
10^Will you kindly send Roberts Brothers, at once, a copy of the portrait
11in the latest Edition of Dreams.^
12
Notation
The 'forgery' Schreiner refers to concerns a parody of her allegorical style. See "God's Light On the Mountain" Pall Mall Gazette 6 February 1891 p.3, with the added comment that "If not by Miss Schreiner, it is certainly a very happy attempt in the same style.".
The 'forgery' Schreiner refers to concerns a parody of her allegorical style. See "God's Light On the Mountain" Pall Mall Gazette 6 February 1891 p.3, with the added comment that "If not by Miss Schreiner, it is certainly a very happy attempt in the same style.".