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Letter Reference | Letters/75 |
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Epistolary Type | |
Letter Date | 10 April 1885 |
Address From | Hastings, East Sussex |
Address To | |
Who To | Havelock Ellis |
Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 69 |
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.
2Hastings, 10th April.
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4If you're a good boy when you come I’ve got a lovely little story to
5tell you that came to me this morning when I was in bed, quite a new
6one I never had before. It's about a man and a little girl on a desert
7island. It's lovely.
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2Hastings, 10th April.
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4If you're a good boy when you come I’ve got a lovely little story to
5tell you that came to me this morning when I was in bed, quite a new
6one I never had before. It's about a man and a little girl on a desert
7island. It's lovely.
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Notation
The ‘little story’ referred to cannot be established and was most likely never written.
The ‘little story’ referred to cannot be established and was most likely never written.