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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/30 |
Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Extract |
Letter Date | After Start: 19 September 1900 ; Before End: 20 September 1900 |
Address From | Hanover, Northern Cape |
Address To | |
Who To | S.C. (‘Cron’) Cronwright-Schreiner |
Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 230 |
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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…You know it’s very curious my curious horror of uncertainty that
2makes me hate all games of chance, all thing things in which there is
3suspense and doubt, just as some people love it. It seems to hold the
4working power of the particles of my brain in suspense such suspense
5that it becomes acute pain...
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7 I like the little place better and better…
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2makes me hate all games of chance, all thing things in which there is
3suspense and doubt, just as some people love it. It seems to hold the
4working power of the particles of my brain in suspense such suspense
5that it becomes acute pain...
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7 I like the little place better and better…
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