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Letter ReferenceOlive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/420
ArchiveNational Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town
Epistolary TypeExtract
Letter Date2 October 1907
Address FromHanover, Northern 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. He also comments, about the meerkats, that his dog Ollie ‘used to be so fond of them, used to let the little ones lie on her & suck her teats. But one day one of the big ones, Tommie, I think, bit her, & she never trusted one of them again!’.
1 …I have just got your beautiful long letter from Prieska & De Aar.
2No one writes such interesting letters as you… The last three days
3here have been quite cool & I have recovered like a bit of dried up
4old seaweed put back into salt water. It’s curious how deadly heat
5is to me now. I didn’t like to say anything to you, but there were
6some days last week when I really thought I was dying… The mierries
7are so well & so fat. Sancho is too sweet. He dances round & round
8after his tail, & runs to me whenever I call him. They have never been
9so tame. If only Ollie would be friends with them….
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11 I am really wonderfully lively the last three days…
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