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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/18 |
Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Extract |
Letter Date | 8 October 1896 |
Address From | The Homestead, Kimberley, Northern Cape |
Address To | Hopetown, Northern Cape |
Who To | S.C. (‘Cron’) Cronwright-Schreiner |
Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 222 |
Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
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. There are some differences between this transcription and the version that appears in The Letters....
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…The little monkey is so sweet. This evening when he got cold &
2sleepy, he called & called to me, & when I took him he just cuddled up
3& wanted to go to sleep in my arms!... Perhaps, your
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2sleepy, he called & called to me, & when I took him he just cuddled up
3& wanted to go to sleep in my arms!... Perhaps, your
4?strop-soet-sager-peckle-sackje ie Olive …
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