"Thrown away 10 years of my life to prevent inevitable" Read the full letter
Letter Reference | HRC/UNCAT/OS-42 |
Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
Epistolary Type | Letter |
Letter Date | Monday 1 June 1885 |
Address From | 41 Upper Baker Street, Marylebone, London |
Address To | |
Who To | Havelock Ellis |
Other Versions | Draznin 1992: 357 |
Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
Legend |
The Project is grateful to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections. This letter has been dated by reference to information written onto it by Ellis. Schreiner was resident in Upper Baker Street for the last part of May and June 1885.
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1Monday afternoon
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3My Havelock.
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5I want just to say a word because I feel so tender to. Oh it is so
6sweet that you are coming again tomorrow it would be so sad if you
7weren’t. I will scribble hard that my mind may know it is right to be
8happy with you. We might go by train & come back by river. I feel so
9right close up to you, & I want to kiss you my old comrade. Good bye
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11Olive
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13Moore couldn’t come he had gone to Brighton but Marston came & Eleanor.
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15Give my love to dear old Louie, I want to see her very much.
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3My Havelock.
4
5I want just to say a word because I feel so tender to. Oh it is so
6sweet that you are coming again tomorrow it would be so sad if you
7weren’t. I will scribble hard that my mind may know it is right to be
8happy with you. We might go by train & come back by river. I feel so
9right close up to you, & I want to kiss you my old comrade. Good bye
10
11Olive
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13Moore couldn’t come he had gone to Brighton but Marston came & Eleanor.
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15Give my love to dear old Louie, I want to see her very much.
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Notation
Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.
Draznin’s (1992) version of this letter is in some respects different from our transcription.