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Letter ReferenceKarl Pearson 840/4/1/54-55
ArchiveUniversity College London Library, Special Collections, UCL, London
Epistolary TypeLetter
Letter DateSaturday 17 October 1885
Address From16 Portsea Place, Westminster, London
Address To
Who ToKarl Pearson
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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 has been written on in an unknown hand. Schreiner was resident in Portsea Place from early August to late October 1885.
1 Saturday
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3 Dear Mr Pearson
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5 Thank you for your letter. I am not able to answer it because I have
6to fight against everything that makes me think or feel. If my
7friendship is of any value to you please know you have it. We are
8always wanting to make life bright & beautiful to others, & yet we
9unreadable who want it so can’t help paining each other. Please know
10when you come on Monday evening you are coming to a friend. I do not
11believe that story of about Miss Müller, she would not have been so
12unloyal to another woman. I will not be there on Sunday, she has not
13asked me. I hope I did not make you feel unhappy the other night.
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15 Olive Schreiner
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17 ^I think I would like to see Mrs Wilson very much. Could you give me
18her address I often go up to Hampstead Heath to rest ^^& might go to see her^^
19Or you & she might come, to see me if you liked.^
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