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| Letter Reference | HRC/OliveSchreinerLetters/OS-JohnHodgson/81 |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 16 March 1914 |
| Address From | Palace Hotel and New-York, Lungarno, Florence, Italy |
| Address To | |
| Who To | John Hodgson |
| Other Versions | |
| 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 is written on printed headed notepaper with an image of the hotel crest.
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1Palace Hotel
2& New-York
3Lung’arno
4Florence
5March 16th 1914
6
7Dear Mr Hodgson
8
9Thanks for your letter. I wonder if this will find you as you are ever
10a bird of passage. What is your permanent Sunday address?
11
12Mine, as I think I told you, is 30 St Mary Abbotts’ Terrace
13Kensington London
14
15The music & coffee sounds delightful. I have not heard any ^real^ music
16for 19 years. I was only 10 days in London & had so many beloved old
17friends to see I could not spare even one evening for that greatest of
18all joys – real music.
19
20Florence is a lovely place. I haven’t been out or seen any thing
21much since I came as Im here quite alone, but th on the 2nd of April
22my friend Mrs Pethick Lawrence & two other strong suffragettes are
23coming to see me for a couple of weeks, & then we shall have a fine
24time. Im not quite strong enough yet to tramp about alone.
25
26I would say a great deal on the South African question but I’m
27afraid this letter may never reach you.
28
29I am glad that in to-days paper’s I see my brother Will made a
30powerful speech demanding the 9 men should be tried. Of course they
31wont be – but its good some one should speak.
32
33Have you seen my friend Lady Constance Lytton’s book, “Prisons &
34Prisoners”? She is to my mind perhaps the most beautiful soul I know
35on earth. You feel her spiritual beauty all through the book.
36
37Let me have your address please
38
39Yours ever
40Olive Schreiner
41
42Do read “Prisons & Prisioners.”
43
2& New-York
3Lung’arno
4Florence
5March 16th 1914
6
7Dear Mr Hodgson
8
9Thanks for your letter. I wonder if this will find you as you are ever
10a bird of passage. What is your permanent Sunday address?
11
12Mine, as I think I told you, is 30 St Mary Abbotts’ Terrace
13Kensington London
14
15The music & coffee sounds delightful. I have not heard any ^real^ music
16for 19 years. I was only 10 days in London & had so many beloved old
17friends to see I could not spare even one evening for that greatest of
18all joys – real music.
19
20Florence is a lovely place. I haven’t been out or seen any thing
21much since I came as Im here quite alone, but th on the 2nd of April
22my friend Mrs Pethick Lawrence & two other strong suffragettes are
23coming to see me for a couple of weeks, & then we shall have a fine
24time. Im not quite strong enough yet to tramp about alone.
25
26I would say a great deal on the South African question but I’m
27afraid this letter may never reach you.
28
29I am glad that in to-days paper’s I see my brother Will made a
30powerful speech demanding the 9 men should be tried. Of course they
31wont be – but its good some one should speak.
32
33Have you seen my friend Lady Constance Lytton’s book, “Prisons &
34Prisoners”? She is to my mind perhaps the most beautiful soul I know
35on earth. You feel her spiritual beauty all through the book.
36
37Let me have your address please
38
39Yours ever
40Olive Schreiner
41
42Do read “Prisons & Prisioners.”
43
Notation
The book referred to is: Constance Lytton (1914) Prisons and Prisoners. Some Personal Experiences London: Heinemann.
The book referred to is: Constance Lytton (1914) Prisons and Prisoners. Some Personal Experiences London: Heinemann.