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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/273 |
Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Extract |
Letter Date | 26 October 1906 |
Address From | Matjesfontein, Western Cape |
Address To | |
Who To | S.C. (‘Cron’) Cronwright-Schreiner |
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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. Cronwright-Schreiner has written the date and where it was sent from onto this extract.
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…I wanted it to heat things in the night, but I’m better now…
2I’m not bad dear, but my heart is very weak. My eyes seem to make
3everything faint before me sometimes. Perhaps I wrote too much of my
4book: it is exacting work. I do so want to finish that book, dear. Can
5you understand?...
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2I’m not bad dear, but my heart is very weak. My eyes seem to make
3everything faint before me sometimes. Perhaps I wrote too much of my
4book: it is exacting work. I do so want to finish that book, dear. Can
5you understand?...
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Notation
The book that Schreiner wants to finish is From Man to Man.
The book that Schreiner wants to finish is From Man to Man.