"City of dreadful night; cut throats, don't mention political news" Read the full letter
Letter Reference | Letters/113 |
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Epistolary Type | |
Letter Date | 2 September 1885 |
Address From | 16 Portsea Place, Westminster, London |
Address To | |
Who To | Havelock Ellis |
Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 80 |
Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
Legend |
When Cronwright-Schreiner prepared The Letters of Olive Schreiner, with few exceptions he then destroyed her originals. However, some people gave him copies and kept the originals or demanded the return of these; and when actual Schreiner letters can be compared with his versions, his have omissions, distortions and bowdlerisations. Where Schreiner originals have survived, these will be found in the relevant collections across the OSLO website. There is however a residue of some 587 items in The Letters for which no originals are extant. They are included here for sake of completeness. However, their relationship to Schreiners actual letters cannot now be gauged, and so they should be read with caution for the reasons given.
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1To Havelock Ellis.
216, Portsea Place, 2nd Sept.
3
4I am starting off to Ventnor on Friday, I don't know where I shall go,
5I shall only take my little black case, so I can wander anywhere. I
6can't sit still here. ... The Doctor was pained with my note, didn't
7come to see me, only wrote a note.
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216, Portsea Place, 2nd Sept.
3
4I am starting off to Ventnor on Friday, I don't know where I shall go,
5I shall only take my little black case, so I can wander anywhere. I
6can't sit still here. ... The Doctor was pained with my note, didn't
7come to see me, only wrote a note.
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