"Writing process, 'Prelude', 'Peter Halket', you can't alter the pictures as they come to you" Read the full letter
Letter Reference | Letters/269 |
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Epistolary Type | |
Letter Date | 9 February 1888 |
Address From | Alassio, Italy |
Address To | |
Who To | Havelock Ellis |
Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 131-2; Rive 1987: 136 |
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.
2Alassio, 9th Feb.
3
4You are quite wrong about my working a few hours every day. The way in
5which my brain must work (at imaginative work) is altogether or not at
6all. My great mistake is that I read the things as soon as I have done
7them and then burn them instead of not looking at them again for a few
8months, when they would seem quite nice.
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2Alassio, 9th Feb.
3
4You are quite wrong about my working a few hours every day. The way in
5which my brain must work (at imaginative work) is altogether or not at
6all. My great mistake is that I read the things as soon as I have done
7them and then burn them instead of not looking at them again for a few
8months, when they would seem quite nice.
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