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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/123 |
Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Extract |
Letter Date | 23 December 1903 |
Address From | Cape Town, Western Cape |
Address To | Beaufort West, Western Cape |
Who To | S.C. (‘Cron’) Cronwright-Schreiner |
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Legend |
The Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner were produced by Cronwright-Schreiner in preparing The Life and The Letters of Olive Schreiner. They appear on slips of paper in his writing, taken from letters that were then destroyed; many of these extracts have also been edited by him. They are artefacts of his editorial practices and their relationship to original Schreiner letters cannot now be gauged. They should be read with considerable caution for the reasons given. Cronwright-Schreiner has written the date, where it was sent from and the place it was sent to onto this extract.
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…My Dear Heart… This will reach you on Xmas Day, my darling.
2Surely some one will ask my Husband to go & have dinner with them… I
3stopped all day & have not done yet. Yesterday a woman in a shop said,
4“you look so happy Madame, I suppose you always have wonderful
5health?” I laughed & said “not quite so.” Miss Molteno & Miss
6Greene have come up from Caledon to be near me while I am here…
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2Surely some one will ask my Husband to go & have dinner with them… I
3stopped all day & have not done yet. Yesterday a woman in a shop said,
4“you look so happy Madame, I suppose you always have wonderful
5health?” I laughed & said “not quite so.” Miss Molteno & Miss
6Greene have come up from Caledon to be near me while I am here…
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