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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/265
ArchiveNational Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeExtract
Letter Date After Start: 13 October 1906 ; Before End: 15 October 1906
Address FromMatjesfontein, Western Cape
Address To
Who ToS.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 and where it was sent from onto this extract.
1 …There was a glorious sunset as I came back, all the white masses of
2cloud on the mountains lighted up pink & gold with bits of green-blue
3sky
between. The sunsets here beat anything I have seen anywhere in
4the world…
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6 I have just got the photo of Ollie & Naude. Isn’t it splendid? If
7only we had one like it of Neta…
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9 Haven’t seen Katie & Theo yet, only their house…
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