"OS reply to B, who had responded to her earlier letter about harassment by a policeman" Read the full letter
| Letter Reference | Karl Pearson 840/4/2/37 |
| Archive | University College London Library, Special Collections, UCL, London |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Tuesday 10 March 1886 |
| Address From | Bournemouth, Dorset |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Karl Pearson |
| Other Versions | |
| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| Legend |
The Project is grateful to University College London (UCL) and its Library Services for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Special Collections. The date has been written on this letter in an unknown hand. Schreiner was resident at two addresses in Bournemouth from mid February to mid March 1886. The name of the addressee is indicated by content and archival location.
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Tuesday evening
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3 You must feel as if a great weight had rolled off you. You will
4perhaps feel better in health now that is done. I am glad you are
5going soon. I hope you will have no one with you. Abroad with the
6warmth, & the sunshine you will not be lonely. Please tell me exactly
7the name of the book, & how soon it will be ready.
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9 I always feel with Ray Lankester that he is a vast engine without a
10driver. He needs to be saved from his own unreasoning power, & made
11conscious as it were. You could help him if you got near him. I might
12– but I’m not going to help men anymore – I want a place where
13its warm & to lie down in the sun on the ground. I can’t write
14letters any more. I haven’t finished my allegory.
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16 Olive Schreiner
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18 I don’t care ^so^ much whether I ever see you again, but I want you to
19attain your full height unreadable Absence from London is necessary
20for that; better for years than for months. I wish I could take you
21out of all your present life & put you in a new one.
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23 I am living in one room at the top of a house. It is beyond the Bath
24Hotel among the pines. I can’t go out, so I make the kettle boil all
25day. I want the tea, but it’s such an
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27 ^interesting occupation. My kettle isn’t a yellow one like yours
28it’s a little cold black one. Are you going to move from your rooms
29as you thought?^
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3 You must feel as if a great weight had rolled off you. You will
4perhaps feel better in health now that is done. I am glad you are
5going soon. I hope you will have no one with you. Abroad with the
6warmth, & the sunshine you will not be lonely. Please tell me exactly
7the name of the book, & how soon it will be ready.
8
9 I always feel with Ray Lankester that he is a vast engine without a
10driver. He needs to be saved from his own unreasoning power, & made
11conscious as it were. You could help him if you got near him. I might
12– but I’m not going to help men anymore – I want a place where
13its warm & to lie down in the sun on the ground. I can’t write
14letters any more. I haven’t finished my allegory.
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16 Olive Schreiner
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18 I don’t care ^so^ much whether I ever see you again, but I want you to
19attain your full height unreadable Absence from London is necessary
20for that; better for years than for months. I wish I could take you
21out of all your present life & put you in a new one.
22
23 I am living in one room at the top of a house. It is beyond the Bath
24Hotel among the pines. I can’t go out, so I make the kettle boil all
25day. I want the tea, but it’s such an
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27 ^interesting occupation. My kettle isn’t a yellow one like yours
28it’s a little cold black one. Are you going to move from your rooms
29as you thought?^
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Notation
The allegory Schreiner had not finished cannot be established, as she was writing a number at this time. The book she asks the title of is perhaps Pearson's (1886) Matter and Soul London: Sunday Lecture Series.
The allegory Schreiner had not finished cannot be established, as she was writing a number at this time. The book she asks the title of is perhaps Pearson's (1886) Matter and Soul London: Sunday Lecture Series.