"Writing, retouching, ambition" Read the full letter
| Letter Reference | Edward Carpenter 359/10 |
| Archive | Sheffield Archives, Archives & Local Studies, Sheffield |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 29 August 1887 |
| Address From | na |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Edward Carpenter |
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| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| Legend |
The Project is grateful to the Sheffield Archives, Sheffield Libraries, Archives and Information Services, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Archive Collections. The date has been written on this letter in an unknown hand.
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[page/s missing] I would take your face close up to mine & make it
2warm.
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4 I am well going to make my book splendid if I live. You will I work
5hard bye & bye & do better works than ever. I thought you weren’t
6going to Whitby till next week. Perhaps I’ll come along with Chubb &
7Dirks if you can put me up for a night at Millthorp.
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9 I’m so perfectly muddle headed I don’t know what I’m going to do. I
10must think it out. Oh my darling you mustn’t have pain, you must get
11nice, & hard, & strong.
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13 Olive Schreiner
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2warm.
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4 I am well going to make my book splendid if I live. You will I work
5hard bye & bye & do better works than ever. I thought you weren’t
6going to Whitby till next week. Perhaps I’ll come along with Chubb &
7Dirks if you can put me up for a night at Millthorp.
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9 I’m so perfectly muddle headed I don’t know what I’m going to do. I
10must think it out. Oh my darling you mustn’t have pain, you must get
11nice, & hard, & strong.
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13 Olive Schreiner
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Notation
The start of the letter may be missing. 'My book' is likely to refer to From Man to Man.
The start of the letter may be missing. 'My book' is likely to refer to From Man to Man.