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Letter Reference | Letters/215 |
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Epistolary Type | |
Letter Date | 3 March 1887 |
Address From | Clarens, Montreux, Switzerland |
Address To | |
Who To | Havelock Ellis |
Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 110 |
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.
2Clarens, 3rd March.
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4Writing sex paper still. Getting to think it’s worth-less, but going
5to finish it. Don’t really think so, but feel so.
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2Clarens, 3rd March.
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4Writing sex paper still. Getting to think it’s worth-less, but going
5to finish it. Don’t really think so, but feel so.
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Notation
The ‘sex paper’ referred to is likely to be Schreiner’s planned ‘Introduction’ to a new edition of Mary Wollstoncraft’s (1792) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman London: J. Johnson. A very early draft fragment of it appears in Carolyn Burdett (1994) History Workshop Journal 37: 189-93.
The ‘sex paper’ referred to is likely to be Schreiner’s planned ‘Introduction’ to a new edition of Mary Wollstoncraft’s (1792) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman London: J. Johnson. A very early draft fragment of it appears in Carolyn Burdett (1994) History Workshop Journal 37: 189-93.