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Letter ReferenceLetters/191
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Epistolary Type
Letter Date20 August 1886
Address FromHarrow, London
Address To
Who ToHavelock Ellis
Other VersionsCronwright-Schreiner 1924: 103
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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.
1To Havelock Ellis.
2Harrow, 20th Aug.
3
4My sensation story is lovely. "Olive Schreiner can't write a sensation
5story!" Ach!
6
Notation
The ‘sensation story’ referred to ‘New Rush’ seems to have existed as a complete manuscript. However, only a short early section now called 'Diamond Fields' is extant; see English in Africa? 1974, 1, 1, pp.1-28.