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| Letter Reference | Letters/56 |
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| Epistolary Type | |
| Letter Date | 3 March 1885 |
| Address From | Hastings, East Sussex |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Havelock Ellis |
| Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 61-2 |
| 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.
2Hastings, 3rd Mar.
3
4My Aunt Rolland is my mother’s sister, married a French missionary,
5and went out to the Cape. I am exactly like her in face, except the
6nose. A painted portrait of her, before she was married, has often
7been taken for me. She is the mother of Mrs. Orpen and Mrs. Hope. She
8is still alive, very old, over ninety I think, but still writes and
9walks about like a young woman.
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2Hastings, 3rd Mar.
3
4My Aunt Rolland is my mother’s sister, married a French missionary,
5and went out to the Cape. I am exactly like her in face, except the
6nose. A painted portrait of her, before she was married, has often
7been taken for me. She is the mother of Mrs. Orpen and Mrs. Hope. She
8is still alive, very old, over ninety I think, but still writes and
9walks about like a young woman.
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