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| Letter Reference | Karl Pearson 840/4/3/147-148 |
| Archive | University College London Library, Special Collections, UCL, London |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Saturday 11 December 1886 |
| Address From | 9 Blandford Square, Paddington, London |
| Address To | 2 Harcourt Buildings, Temple, London |
| Who To | Karl Pearson |
| Other Versions | Rive 1987: 115 |
| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| Legend |
The Project is grateful to University College London (UCL) and its Library Services for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Special Collections. The date of this letter is provided by the postmark on an attached envelope, while the address it was sent to is on its front. Schreiner was resident in Blandford Square from early October to late December 1886, when she left England for Europe.
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Sat morning
2
3 Dear Mr Pearson
4
5 I did not tell you in yesterday’s note that I wrote on Thursday to
6^asking^ Mrs Cobb no more to write to me or to come & see me. Perhaps I
7ought to have done so, but I knew you would hear it from herself.
8
9 //I am unable to understand Mrs Cobb.
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11 If you feel that this step relations makes a change in our relations
12necessary or necessitates my leaving the club, speak frankly.
13
14 Yours
15 O.S.
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3 Dear Mr Pearson
4
5 I did not tell you in yesterday’s note that I wrote on Thursday to
6^asking^ Mrs Cobb no more to write to me or to come & see me. Perhaps I
7ought to have done so, but I knew you would hear it from herself.
8
9 //I am unable to understand Mrs Cobb.
10
11 If you feel that this step relations makes a change in our relations
12necessary or necessitates my leaving the club, speak frankly.
13
14 Yours
15 O.S.
16
17
18
Notation
Rive?s (1987) version of this letter is in a number of respects incorrect.
Rive?s (1987) version of this letter is in a number of respects incorrect.