"I know by experience I can make a woman perfectly happy" Read the full letter
| Letter Reference | Lytton 01229/11 |
| Archive | Lytton Family Papers, Knebworth |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | After Start: 1888 ; Before End: 1893 |
| Address From | na |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Constance Lytton |
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| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| Legend |
The Project is grateful to the Knebworth House Archive (www.knebworthhouse.com) for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner note to Lady Constance Lytton, which is part of the Knebworth collections. The letter has been dated according to the years in which the South African College Union Annual was published.
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1^It’s one of the first stories I made for myself when I was a child. OS.^
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Notation
This note has been written onto a copy of Schreiner’s allegory ‘Dream Life and Real Life: A Little African Story’ as published in the South African College Union Annual. See: "Dream Life and Real Life; A Little African Story" South African College Union Annual vol 3, 16 December 1890, pp.11-14.
This note has been written onto a copy of Schreiner’s allegory ‘Dream Life and Real Life: A Little African Story’ as published in the South African College Union Annual. See: "Dream Life and Real Life; A Little African Story" South African College Union Annual vol 3, 16 December 1890, pp.11-14.