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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/268 |
Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Extract |
Letter Date | 19 October 1906 |
Address From | Matjesfontein, Western Cape |
Address To | |
Who To | S.C. (‘Cron’) Cronwright-Schreiner |
Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 255 |
Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
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. There are some differences between this transcription and the version that appears in The Letters….
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…You know I’ve got the feeling here that I used to have that I’d
2like to live hundreds & hundreds of years in this world, & yet also
3the feeling it would be a beautiful peaceful thing to die. The two
4feelings seem contrary, but they really are not…
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2like to live hundreds & hundreds of years in this world, & yet also
3the feeling it would be a beautiful peaceful thing to die. The two
4feelings seem contrary, but they really are not…
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