"Hounding of Mashona, evil keeps begetting itself, mills of God" Read the full letter
Letter Reference | HRC/CAT/OS/5a-vii |
Archive | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin |
Epistolary Type | Letter |
Letter Date | Saturday 11 September 1915 |
Address From | Llandrindod Wells, Wales |
Address To | |
Who To | Havelock Ellis |
Other Versions | Draznin 1992: 492 |
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. In the absence of other information, dating this letter has followed Draznin (1992), who has done so by reference to a version in the Lafitte Letters typescript in the British Library. Schreiner first stayed in Llandrindod Wells from late July to late October 1915, and then again from mid June to mid September 1916.
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1Saturday
2
3Dear Havelock
4
5Can you give me any news of the Zeppelin Raid on London? Such
6wonderful stories are going about here, all Broad Street destroyed!
7Many bombs on Hampstead & Golder’s Green! Many people killed. Of
8course no one believes the Government accounts. How much better it
9would be if once they could bring themselves to speaking the truth
10about anything! People’s imaginations run so much further than the
11most terrible facts.
12
13Good bye. Love to Edith
14Olive
15
2
3Dear Havelock
4
5Can you give me any news of the Zeppelin Raid on London? Such
6wonderful stories are going about here, all Broad Street destroyed!
7Many bombs on Hampstead & Golder’s Green! Many people killed. Of
8course no one believes the Government accounts. How much better it
9would be if once they could bring themselves to speaking the truth
10about anything! People’s imaginations run so much further than the
11most terrible facts.
12
13Good bye. Love to Edith
14Olive
15
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.