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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/326 |
Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Extract |
Letter Date | 14 January 1907 |
Address From | Hanover, Northern Cape |
Address To | De Aar, Northern 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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…Did you see me waving the big towel on the back stoep after you? I
2watched the cart till it was a little speck going round Spitz Kop…
3The old woman says the little girl can only come by the day & I must
4give her a shilling & food. That’s monstrous, fall women working the
5whole day get 9d here. But they know I can’t help myself…
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2watched the cart till it was a little speck going round Spitz Kop…
3The old woman says the little girl can only come by the day & I must
4give her a shilling & food. That’s monstrous, fall women working the
5whole day get 9d here. But they know I can’t help myself…
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