"Wonderful Dot Schreiner, tall thin woman who caused me no end of trouble" Read the full letter
Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/327 |
Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Extract |
Letter Date | 14 January 1907 |
Address From | Hanover, Northern Cape |
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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, and that the last sentence concerned Olive Schreiner finishing her novel From Man to Man and having enough money to buy a farm.
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…I keep seeing your old face wherever I go...
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3 I would like some one to sleep here, not because I’m nervous, but
4because I don’t think it’s quite healthy for the brain to be
5always alone… I wish I could see Truter… done in a year & a half &
6buying a little farm…
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3 I would like some one to sleep here, not because I’m nervous, but
4because I don’t think it’s quite healthy for the brain to be
5always alone… I wish I could see Truter… done in a year & a half &
6buying a little farm…
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