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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/422
ArchiveNational Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeExtract
Letter Date4 October 1907
Address FromHanover, Northern Cape
Address To
Who ToS.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 and where it was sent from onto this extract, and that ‘She encloses an invitation & her acceptance to distribute the Sports Association prizes at De Aar on the ?31st.’.
1 …It is such a glorious day, when ‘the genius of god doth show’.
2It seems almost wicked to be working in the house. I am feeling so
3well the last days: perhaps it’s the weather, perhaps it’s the
4thought of ‘going in a puff-puff to see the old man!’…
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6 I should like to be there at the Sports… I suppose none of the other
7women will mind my being asked to give the prizes out…
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