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Letter Reference | Letters/33 |
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Letter Date | 4 January 1885 |
Address From | 4 Robertson Terrace, Hastings, East Sussex |
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Who To | Havelock Ellis |
Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 54 |
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.
24, Robertson Terrace, 4th Jan.
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4I have read some of Myers' essays. He writes well and I like his mind,
5it is a fine broad mind, but he does not step out quite fearlessly
6after the truth, anywhere, anywhere. I like his essay on Victor Hugo.
7He and Swinburne are all sound and form, no truth and no thought.
8After Ibsen how small all writers and thinkers seem!
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24, Robertson Terrace, 4th Jan.
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4I have read some of Myers' essays. He writes well and I like his mind,
5it is a fine broad mind, but he does not step out quite fearlessly
6after the truth, anywhere, anywhere. I like his essay on Victor Hugo.
7He and Swinburne are all sound and form, no truth and no thought.
8After Ibsen how small all writers and thinkers seem!
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