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 and where it was sent from onto this extract. He also comments, about the meerkats, that his dog Ollie ‘used to be so fond of them, used to let the little ones lie on her & suck her teats. But one day one of the big ones, Tommie, I think, bit her, & she never trusted one of them again!’.