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Letter ReferenceLetters/434
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Epistolary Type
Letter Date10 July 1894
Address FromKrantz Plaats, Halesowen, Eastern Cape
Address To
Who ToIsaline Philpot
Other VersionsCronwright-Schreiner 1924: 215
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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.
1To Mrs. J. H. Philpot.
2Krantz Plaats, 10th July.
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4There's a great fuss among the servants to-night. Kroon, the Hottentot
5herd (who figures in the group with the ostriches), has had his white
6cat killed by two of the little Kaffir boys, and Cron will have to act
7to-morrow as “Magistrate” to decide the rights and wrongs.
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