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Letter Reference | Letters/386 |
Archive | |
Epistolary Type | |
Letter Date | 21 January 1890 |
Address From | Cape Town, Western Cape |
Address To | |
Who To | Havelock Ellis |
Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 176 |
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.
2Cape Town, 21st Jan.
3
4There's a little verandah here before the drawing-room with a vine
5growing over it where I often go and I play Chopin on the piano a
6great deal. .... I am sending my Prelude to you by this post. Please
7give it to Eleanor Marx to typewrite, paying her the full rate.
8
2Cape Town, 21st Jan.
3
4There's a little verandah here before the drawing-room with a vine
5growing over it where I often go and I play Chopin on the piano a
6great deal. .... I am sending my Prelude to you by this post. Please
7give it to Eleanor Marx to typewrite, paying her the full rate.
8
Notation
The 'Prelude' is to From Man to Man.
The 'Prelude' is to From Man to Man.