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Letter ReferenceLetters/89
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Epistolary Type
Letter Date29 May 1885
Address From41 Upper Baker Street, Westminster, London
Address To
Who ToHavelock Ellis
Other VersionsCronwright-Schreiner 1924: 74
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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.
2Upper Baker St., 29th May.
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4If your mind is like mine you won't be able to write much while you
5are reading; the taking in and the giving out state are opposed. I am
6in the giving out state now. I can’t read anything. I only want to
7write, to write.
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