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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/379 |
Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Extract |
Letter Date | 25 April 1907 |
Address From | Hanover, Northern Cape |
Address To | De Aar, Northern Cape |
Who To | S.C. (‘Cron’) Cronwright-Schreiner |
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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, and also that Olive Schreiner had enclosed ‘a group poho photo, one of whom is Mrs Cobb with her daughter Nora Olive Cobb.’.
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…I’ve been sorting all my old letters. Nearly all my friends begin
2‘My dear beautiful Olive,’ or ‘My beautiful Olive’, or ‘My
3Sweet beautiful Olive’… I wonder if they would think I was
4beautiful still. Don’t you think I am beautiful?...
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2‘My dear beautiful Olive,’ or ‘My beautiful Olive’, or ‘My
3Sweet beautiful Olive’… I wonder if they would think I was
4beautiful still. Don’t you think I am beautiful?...
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