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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/520 |
Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Extract |
Letter Date | 30 September 1919 |
Address From | na |
Address To | |
Who To | S.C. (‘Cron’) Cronwright-Schreiner |
Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 361-2 |
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 onto this extract.
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…There was a little deal box among the luggage Oliver brought to the
2station at Waterloo, a little larger than a soap box. I touched it
3with my hand for the last time: it is all that is left of the Will who
4came to England five years ago - a little handful of dust going back
5to his native land…
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2station at Waterloo, a little larger than a soap box. I touched it
3with my hand for the last time: it is all that is left of the Will who
4came to England five years ago - a little handful of dust going back
5to his native land…
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