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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/160 |
Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Extract |
Letter Date | 20 June 1904 |
Address From | Hanover, Northern Cape |
Address To | Pretoria, Transvaal |
Who To | S.C. (‘Cron’) Cronwright-Schreiner |
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Legend |
The Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner were produced by Cronwright-Schreiner in preparing The Life and The Letters of Olive Schreiner. They appear on slips of paper in his writing, taken from letters that were then destroyed; many of these extracts have also been edited by him. They are artefacts of his editorial practices and their relationship to original Schreiner letters cannot now be gauged. They should be read with considerable caution for the reasons given. Cronwright-Schreiner has written the date, where it was sent from and the place it was sent to onto this extract, and also that Mrs Pullinger was their neighbour in Johannesburg and Robert was Olive Schreiner’s brother-in-law Robert Hemming.
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…I sent you a note to Hudson’s care, asking you to get the books
2from Robert that Mrs Pullinger had… & had picked up some of our
3books outside after the looting by the military… This morning
4‘Arriet, Tommie & In-bred, all three, walked into my bedroom bed,
5climbed up & crept in by my neck!...
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2from Robert that Mrs Pullinger had… & had picked up some of our
3books outside after the looting by the military… This morning
4‘Arriet, Tommie & In-bred, all three, walked into my bedroom bed,
5climbed up & crept in by my neck!...
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