"Olive died peacefully" Read the full letter
Letter Reference | Letters/505 |
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Epistolary Type | |
Letter Date | 29 July 1912 |
Address From | De Aar, Northern Cape |
Address To | |
Who To | Emily Hobhouse |
Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 312 |
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 Miss Emily Hobhouse.
2De Aar, 29th July.
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4… I have never been able to add a line to any of my books since I saw
5you. You see as soon as one writes and feels one gets excited, and as
6soon as one gets excited one gets faint.
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2De Aar, 29th July.
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4… I have never been able to add a line to any of my books since I saw
5you. You see as soon as one writes and feels one gets excited, and as
6soon as one gets excited one gets faint.
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