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| Letter Reference | Karl Pearson 840/4/2/88-89 |
| Archive | University College London Library, Special Collections, UCL, London |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Friday 18 June 1886 |
| Address From | The Convent, Harrow, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Karl Pearson |
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| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
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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. The name of the addressee is indicated by content and archival location.
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The Convent
2 Friday morning
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4 My criticisms of your paper have been nasty & carping, but it has been
5because I feel your work is my own. I don’t try to find every hole &
6flaw, I can in anyone else but in you.
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8 If you find it troublesome to come & see me I will come to see you, if
9you will let me.
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11 Sometimes we think people must understand us & so we never try to
12explain ourselves to them.
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14 Olive Schreiner
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16 Don’t tell other people that I ask you to come to me because you
17know they don’t understand, & there are some things I am sensitive
18about.
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20 OS
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2 Friday morning
3
4 My criticisms of your paper have been nasty & carping, but it has been
5because I feel your work is my own. I don’t try to find every hole &
6flaw, I can in anyone else but in you.
7
8 If you find it troublesome to come & see me I will come to see you, if
9you will let me.
10
11 Sometimes we think people must understand us & so we never try to
12explain ourselves to them.
13
14 Olive Schreiner
15
16 Don’t tell other people that I ask you to come to me because you
17know they don’t understand, & there are some things I am sensitive
18about.
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20 OS
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Notation
The paper Schreiner had criticisms of is probably Pearson's 'A Sketch of the History of Sexual Relations in Germany', read at the Men and Women's Club in June 1886.
The paper Schreiner had criticisms of is probably Pearson's 'A Sketch of the History of Sexual Relations in Germany', read at the Men and Women's Club in June 1886.