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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/408 |
Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Extract |
Letter Date | 12 June 1907 |
Address From | Hanover, Northern 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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…If I shouldn’t come back, you will know our baby’s little
2coffin is in the box at the foot of my bed. Don’t forget to put my
3darling Neta with me. All my letters are in the two boxes behind my
4desk. The upper flat box is all private letters from mother, Will &c
5all to be burnt. In the lower box are your letters, some bits of MS.
6, journals &c, which you may look through of you have time & keep any
7you want…
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2coffin is in the box at the foot of my bed. Don’t forget to put my
3darling Neta with me. All my letters are in the two boxes behind my
4desk. The upper flat box is all private letters from mother, Will &c
5all to be burnt. In the lower box are your letters, some bits of MS.
6, journals &c, which you may look through of you have time & keep any
7you want…
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