"Would put up two monuments, Doornkop & Slachter's Nek, pacifism" Read the full letter
| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Edward Carpenter SMD 30/32/a |
| Archive | National English Literary Museum, Grahamstown |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 5 August 1886 |
| Address From | The Convent, Harrow, London |
| Address To | Millthorpe, Holmesfield, Sheffield |
| Who To | Edward Carpenter |
| Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 103 |
| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| Legend |
The Project is grateful to the National English Literary Museum (NELM) for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. The address this letter was sent to is provided by an attached envelope.
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The Convent
2 Harrow
3 Aug 5 / 86
4
5 My dear E.C.
6
7 So many people are wanting copies of of your paper on Simplification
8of Life. Couldn't you publish it in separate pamphlet form. I think it
9would be rather a good thing if at some time soon you could gather
10your papers together & publish them in news a small vol=
11including the 'Interest" paper. I hope whenever you publish anything
12fresh you will at once let me know.
13
14 I have been reading Whitman of late with much more enjoyment than ever
15before. I find he's not so good as you are when one is ill & wants
16help & strength, one needs to be strong & in overflowing health really
17to enjoy him. I wonder whether you find it so.
18
19 I'm so glad to hear you saw Mrs Walters, but its only after knowing
20her for years that the beauty of her character becomes clear.
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22 O. Schreiner
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2 Harrow
3 Aug 5 / 86
4
5 My dear E.C.
6
7 So many people are wanting copies of of your paper on Simplification
8of Life. Couldn't you publish it in separate pamphlet form. I think it
9would be rather a good thing if at some time soon you could gather
10your papers together & publish them in news a small vol=
11including the 'Interest" paper. I hope whenever you publish anything
12fresh you will at once let me know.
13
14 I have been reading Whitman of late with much more enjoyment than ever
15before. I find he's not so good as you are when one is ill & wants
16help & strength, one needs to be strong & in overflowing health really
17to enjoy him. I wonder whether you find it so.
18
19 I'm so glad to hear you saw Mrs Walters, but its only after knowing
20her for years that the beauty of her character becomes clear.
21
22 O. Schreiner
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Notation
For Carpenter's 'simplification of life' ideas, see Edward Carpenter (1905) The Simplification of Life: From the Writings of Edward Carpenter London: A. Treherne & Co. The Whitman which Schreiner was reading is: Walt Whitman (1855) Leaves of Grass New York: Brooklyn. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) version of this letter is incorrect in various respects.
For Carpenter's 'simplification of life' ideas, see Edward Carpenter (1905) The Simplification of Life: From the Writings of Edward Carpenter London: A. Treherne & Co. The Whitman which Schreiner was reading is: Walt Whitman (1855) Leaves of Grass New York: Brooklyn. Cronwright-Schreiner's (1924) version of this letter is incorrect in various respects.