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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/297
ArchiveNational Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeExtract
Letter Date27 November 1906
Address FromMatjesfontein, Western Cape
Address ToHanover, Northern Cape
Who ToS.C. (‘Cron’) Cronwright-Schreiner
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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.
1 …Yes, my dear one I can understand what ‘balm’ the quiet is to
2you with your dear sensitive brain, that feels noise quite as much as
3mine does. I always say my brain ‘sweats bloody sweat’ if I try to
4work it when there’s noise. I’m sure yours does… How is little
5Ollie-pollie? How is our spider nest? Is there fruit in Hanover or did
6the frost destroy it?...
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