"Destroying letters, letters as sacred as a promise" Read the full letter
Collection Summary | View All |  Arrange By:
< Prev |
Viewing Item
of 586 | Next >
Letter ReferenceHRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/69
ArchiveHarry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter Date2 April 1903
Address FromHanover, Northern Cape
Address To
Who ToT. Fisher Unwin
Other Versions
PermissionsPlease 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.
1Hanover
2Cape Colony,
3April 2 / 03
4
5Dear Mr Unwin
6
7I quite accept your apology with regard to the letter. I am quite sure
8no one in your emply would knowingly tamper with a letter addressed to
9myself, & that it was a mishap.
10
11I have received all your letters, but please in future always address to me
12at Hanover
13Cape Colony
14South Africa,
15as letters sent to Newlands take 2 days longer to come. My permanent
16address is Hanover.
17
18Thank you for what you mention re – my American business in your two
19last. I am sure you mean it unselfishly, but pray do not trouble
20yourself in any way with my American concerns.
21
22All business letters are perfectly safe; I have never found one
23mis-carry. The only letters ever stopped are those from politicians &c
24dealing with politics. Any letter enclosing money ^or concerning
25business^ was quite safe even under marshal law.
26
27Yours faithfully
28Olive Schreiner