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, that Olive Schreiner had sent on to him a letter about this, and that ‘The correspondent says “Shortly before Mr Herbert Spencer’s death, I had the opportunity of having The Hunter read out to him.’. There are some differences between this transcription and the version that appears in The Letters....