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| Letter Reference | HRC/UNCAT/OS-101 |
| Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | 27 June 1886 |
| Address From | The Convent, Harrow, London |
| Address To | |
| Who To | Havelock Ellis |
| Other Versions | Draznin 1992: 418 |
| 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 lived at the Convent in Harrow from late May to late September 1886.
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1My own boy. I haven’t been nice to him today; & my heart was so
2loving to him; it’s that hay fever, makes me such a horrid girl. You
3will come again to our nice little room soon? I will want so till I
4see you again, to look at your face.
5
6One day you will marry a sweet gentle woman like Arrabella, but you &
7I will ever be one in heart. My Havelock I keep seeing your face like
8it looked when we sat on the stone We won’t go into the country at
9all next time, we’ll stop in the Church yard & our little room.
10
11Olive
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2loving to him; it’s that hay fever, makes me such a horrid girl. You
3will come again to our nice little room soon? I will want so till I
4see you again, to look at your face.
5
6One day you will marry a sweet gentle woman like Arrabella, but you &
7I will ever be one in heart. My Havelock I keep seeing your face like
8it looked when we sat on the stone We won’t go into the country at
9all next time, we’ll stop in the Church yard & our little room.
10
11Olive
12
Notation
Arabella is the protagonist in Ellis's sonnet of the same name; see Havelock Ellis (1925) Sonnets With Folk Songs From the Spanish Waltham St Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press. A version of this letter is in Draznin (1992).
Arabella is the protagonist in Ellis's sonnet of the same name; see Havelock Ellis (1925) Sonnets With Folk Songs From the Spanish Waltham St Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press. A version of this letter is in Draznin (1992).