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Letter ReferenceLetters/224
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Epistolary Type
Letter Date2 April 1887
Address FromAlassio, Italy
Address To
Who ToHavelock Ellis
Other VersionsCronwright-Schreiner 1924: 113
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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. Cronwright-Schreiner comments that an allegory was originally enclosed with this letter.
1To Havelock Ellis.
2Alassio, 2nd April.
3
4What do you think of the enclosed? I wrote it since I came up from
5dinner. The dry air here makes me able to work like I could at the
6Cape, I mean the ideas pour, however ill and weak I am. Take care of
7it because I've no copy, and I can't write such little things twice.
8I’m going to write another now.
9