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Letter ReferenceLetters/271
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Epistolary Type
Letter Date20 February 1888
Address FromAlassio, Italy
Address To
Who ToHavelock Ellis
Other VersionsCronwright-Schreiner 1924: 132
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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.
2Alassio, 20th Feb.
3
4Working night and day at Introduction to Mary W; love it better than
5anything I've written for a long time. But I want to publish it first
6in Fortnightly. Do you think the editor will let me. I'm putting the
7result of all my work on Woman Question into it. It will be a disgrace
8to get only £10.
9
Notation
‘Mary W’ refers to Schreiner having agreed to write an ‘Introduction’ to a new edition of Mary Wollstonecraft’s (1792) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, but which was never completed. A very early draft fragment of it appears in Carolyn Burdett (1994) History Workshop Journal 37: 189-93.