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, that ‘Olive sends me up some MS. to be typed & asks me if possible to bring back a typewriting machine.’ and that her letter reported on the efforts that Oom Jan Cilliers of Hanover and others were making for him to administer the estate of Oom Piet du Toit.