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Letter Reference | Letters/209 |
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Epistolary Type | |
Letter Date | 15 January 1887 |
Address From | Clarens, Montreux, Switzerland |
Address To | |
Who To | Havelock Ellis |
Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 108 |
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.
2Clarens, 15th Jan.
3
4Darling boy, tell me all about what you are doing, please. I am not so
5well again. ... You know I've got a funny nature. I don't need other
6people should love me if I love them. I love more impersonally than
7anyone I know. I suppose it's because my imagination's strong. I
8become that person.
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2Clarens, 15th Jan.
3
4Darling boy, tell me all about what you are doing, please. I am not so
5well again. ... You know I've got a funny nature. I don't need other
6people should love me if I love them. I love more impersonally than
7anyone I know. I suppose it's because my imagination's strong. I
8become that person.
9