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Letter Date8 March 1915
Address FromLondon
Address To
Who ToHavelock Ellis
Other VersionsCronwright-Schreiner 1924: 346-7
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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 Havelock Ellis.
2London, 8th Mar.
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4At last I really am better. What I've had was measles for the third
5time! After some days of terrible headache I came out the most
6extraordinary rash all over my face and chest, etc. For a couple of
7days I lay nearly insensible, not eating or drinking or moving, and in
8a dazed sort of way I kept thinking: "It's just like I felt when I had
9I measles" - but of course I thought it couldn't be. Now I find that
10the little boy in the room next mine, and whose mother and sister
11(who’ve been nursing him) I sit next to, has had a most terrible
12attack of measles! He was in bed a week before me. I've certainly had
13it three times now, when I was a child, again at Matjesfontein, when I
14nearly died with it, and now. I'm now quite well, only my head still
15feels tired. I'm going out on the top of the bus to Hampton Court
16to-morrow. It would be so nice if you were near, perhaps you could go too.
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