"Trying to help Will Schreiner politically; I want 'She wrote Peter Halket' on my grave; it's what it cost me" Read the full letter
Letter Reference | Letters/162 |
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Epistolary Type | |
Letter Date | 27 February 1886 |
Address From | Bournemouth, Dorset |
Address To | |
Who To | Havelock Ellis |
Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 94 |
Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
Legend |
When Cronwright-Schreiner prepared The Letters of Olive Schreiner, with few exceptions he then destroyed her originals. However, some people gave him copies and kept the originals or demanded the return of these; and when actual Schreiner letters can be compared with his versions, his have omissions, distortions and bowdlerisations. Where Schreiner originals have survived, these will be found in the relevant collections across the OSLO website. There is however a residue of some 587 items in The Letters for which no originals are extant. They are included here for sake of completeness. However, their relationship to Schreiners actual letters cannot now be gauged, and so they should be read with caution for the reasons given.
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1To Havelock Ellis.
2Bournemouth, 27th Feb.
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4Your letter was so sweet this morning. If you go to Australia I'd like
5to go as far as the Cape with you. Only perhaps it wouldn't rest you
6then. I'm feeling much better; better mentally than I have for months.
7It’s the laying perfectly still.
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2Bournemouth, 27th Feb.
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4Your letter was so sweet this morning. If you go to Australia I'd like
5to go as far as the Cape with you. Only perhaps it wouldn't rest you
6then. I'm feeling much better; better mentally than I have for months.
7It’s the laying perfectly still.
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