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Erilda Cawood (nee Buckley)
Erilda Louisa Elizabeth Cawood nee Buckley (1842 - 1903) was born near Fort Beaufort and married Richard Cawood (1839 - 1919), a pioneering Eastern Cape farmer, in 1862. The Cawoods lived at the farm Ganna Hoek in the Cradock district. Schreiner frequently visited them when she was employed as a governess on an adjacent farm in the later 1870s, and she became a fascinating teller of stories to the Cawood children. Erilda Cawood and Schreiner became very close. However, Cawood suddenly sent her an impassioned letter rejecting her friendship because she was irreligious, with Schreiner's reply as quoted by Cronwright-Schreiner a model of good sense and restraint in the face of this. There was a later reconciliation, and it was Erilda Cawood who introduced Schreiner to the then Samuel 'Cron' Cronwright. A flavour of their friendship is gained from Schreiner's letters to Erilda Cawood, although as these now exist only in versions produced by Cronwright-Schreiner, they are likely to contain inaccuracies as well as major omissions.
For more information see
Karel Schoeman (1991) Olive Schreiner: A Woman in South Africa 1855-1881 Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball
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- National English Literary Museum, Grahamstown: The National English Literary Museum is the leading location for collections pertaining to the imaginative and creative writi... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- Olive Schreiner: S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner-Extra SMD 30/33/b:Mount Vernon, Cape Town, Darling,, You must not wait for my visit. All I can say is that if at allpossible before I leave Sou...
- SCCS Edited Extracts: Four groups of edited extracts from Olive Schreiner's letters can be accessed from here, made by her estranged husband Cronwr... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- Life/1:My dear Mrs Cawood,, I have got your letter with the stamps. I wanted you never, never to pay for the books; but, as you woul...
- Letters/1:To Mrs. R. Cawood. , Victoria Hotel, Cradock, 5th May., I don't know when I felt more lonely in my life. I wish you were here...
- Letters/2:To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 8th Sept., I have thought so much of you, and you would hardly believe how I wish to see you. Yo...
- Letters/4:To Mrs. Cawood. , Ratel Hoek, 8th Sept., ... I don't know how it is, I seem to have met more likeable people in the course of...
- Letters/5:To Mrs. Cawood., Kat Kop, 4th Nov., Mother Fouche says that Stoffel is determined that, when Annie has been a year in Cradock...
- Letters/6:To Mrs. Cawood. , Tarkastad, 9th Dec., I wish you were here to talk matters over with me. I know you always make my affairs ...
- Letters/7:To Mrs. Cawood. , Seymour, 17th Jan., ... My year at Ratel Hoek is up on the 10th May, and if I wished I could leave, and I h...
- Letters/9:To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 24th April., Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid! You say you wish it had been my own eng...
- Letters/10:To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 4th Aug., And now I'm going to quarrel with you. What do you mean by going to Cradock and stayin...
- Letters/11:To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 10th Sept., I am beginning to understand for the first time your wish to live to be an old woman...
- Letters/12:To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 27th Dec., I am going to leave this in May, and if I haven't got a situation by that time perhap...
- Letters/13:To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 9th Jan., I wish I could see you. Perhaps it would give you a little happiness, and it would do ...
- Letters/14:To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 24th Jan., Now as to my coming to you. It is as though someone held out a very nice ripe apple t...
- Letters/15:To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 4th Feb., Who do you think was here to-day, Mr. Stoffel Fouche! He came to get me he said, and h...
- Letters/16:To Mrs. Cawood. , Ratel Hoek, 24th Feb., From seven years to eleven or twelve they should not study too hard, but after that ...
- Letters/17:To Mrs. Cawood. , Ratel Hoek, 26th Feb., ... Now that the time for leaving begins to come near I begin to feel a great pain a...
- Letters/19:To Mrs. Cawood., Eastbourne, 15th Aug., I don’t think when we human beings really love one another we can ever leave of...
- Letters/20:To Mrs. Cawood., Eastbourne, 3rd Oct., I leave on Saturday for London to enter the Endell Street Hospital for three months to...
- Letters/21:To Mrs. Cawood. , 81, Guilford Street, Russell Square, London, 14th May., Dear old friend, so you won't write to me, won'...
- Letters/22:To Mrs. Cawood., 11, Porchester Gardens, London, 11th July, Will came to say goodbye to me on Thursday. We had a very happy t...
- Letters/23:To Mrs. Cawood., St. Leonards-On-Sea, 19th Oct., You see I have left my dear old London, ordered away by the doctors, and hav...
- Letters/24:To Mrs. Cawood. , Rose Cottage, Bexhill, 15th Nov., I am having to go back to St. Leonard's on account of my chest. ..., I ho...
- Letters/25:To Mrs. Cawood., Edinburgh House, St. Leonards, 20th March., ... The great pleasure to me however has been the meeting of som...
- Letters/30:To Mrs. Cawood. , 39, Belgrade Road, London, 13th Sept., I haven't changed a bit in the way you fancy, though I have changed...
- Letters/122:To Mrs. Cawood. , 16, Portsea Place, 5th Oct., I've a great many friends who are very loving to me, but sometimes I feel ve...
- Letters/123:To Mrs. Cawood. , London, 5th Oct., Ach, I would like to see old Africa a bit, I would like to smell the mimosa trees. I oft...
- Letters/168:To Mrs. Cawood., Bournemouth, 19th March., Ach, dear friend, I do long so for a little Cape sunshine sometimes. Everything el...
- Letters/275:To Mrs. Cawood., Alassio, ? March., I am getting on well; another person in health while I stop out of English cold. ... Who ...
- Letters/276:To Mrs. Cawood., Alassio, 16th March., Yes, I will leave you something, my little brown box with all my relics in it, the las...
- Letters/400:To Mrs. R. Cawood., Matjesfontein, 16th June., You are very wicked not to like my allegories. I only wish I was half as good ...
- Letters/408:To Mrs. R. Cawood., Matjesfontein, Friday (? In 1890)., I have very bad asthma here; if it doesn't get better shall have to t...
- Letters/409:To Mrs. R. Cawood., Matjesfontein (? In 1890)., Does Mr. Cawood know Lelie Kloof, and if he does how much is it worth?,
- Letters/419:To Mrs. R. Cawood., Matjesfontein, 1891., My darling friend, it is very sad to think I shall never see Elsie. I am so glad sh...
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- National English Literary Museum, Grahamstown: The National English Literary Museum is the leading location for collections pertaining to the imaginative and creative writi... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- Olive Schreiner: Mimmie Murray 2001.24/37:Matjiesfontein, Dec Jan 3rd 1909, Dear Mrs Murray, All good wishes for the new year to you all., I have been here about a wee...
- Olive Schreiner: Will Schreiner 97.12.3.6.24:Ganna Hoek, Oct 20th 1875, My dear old Will!, The Fouches are going into Cradock to have their baby baptised & I must tak...
- SCCS Edited Extracts: Four groups of edited extracts from Olive Schreiner's letters can be accessed from here, made by her estranged husband Cronwr... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- Life/1:My dear Mrs Cawood,, I have got your letter with the stamps. I wanted you never, never to pay for the books; but, as you woul...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/3:…I must go to Mrs Cawood’s this afternoon because I fancy my being here gives old John trouble though he doesn’...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/5:…As I remember Dordrecht it was a nice little town but I was only there a couple of months… I slept the whole of ...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/145:…You vary strangely as to your appearance & age. When I first saw you, at the Cawoods if Mrs Cawood had not told m...
- Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/212:…Pouring rain… Anna Purcell was here this morning here for a little while this afternoon. She says the mierkats a...
- Letters/1:To Mrs. R. Cawood. , Victoria Hotel, Cradock, 5th May., I don't know when I felt more lonely in my life. I wish you were here...
- Letters/2:To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 8th Sept., I have thought so much of you, and you would hardly believe how I wish to see you. Yo...
- Letters/4:To Mrs. Cawood. , Ratel Hoek, 8th Sept., ... I don't know how it is, I seem to have met more likeable people in the course of...
- Letters/5:To Mrs. Cawood., Kat Kop, 4th Nov., Mother Fouche says that Stoffel is determined that, when Annie has been a year in Cradock...
- Letters/6:To Mrs. Cawood. , Tarkastad, 9th Dec., I wish you were here to talk matters over with me. I know you always make my affairs ...
- Letters/7:To Mrs. Cawood. , Seymour, 17th Jan., ... My year at Ratel Hoek is up on the 10th May, and if I wished I could leave, and I h...
- Letters/9:To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 24th April., Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid! You say you wish it had been my own eng...
- Letters/10:To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 4th Aug., And now I'm going to quarrel with you. What do you mean by going to Cradock and stayin...
- Letters/11:To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 10th Sept., I am beginning to understand for the first time your wish to live to be an old woman...
- Letters/12:To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 27th Dec., I am going to leave this in May, and if I haven't got a situation by that time perhap...
- Letters/13:To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 9th Jan., I wish I could see you. Perhaps it would give you a little happiness, and it would do ...
- Letters/14:To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 24th Jan., Now as to my coming to you. It is as though someone held out a very nice ripe apple t...
- Letters/15:To Mrs. Cawood., Ratel Hoek, 4th Feb., Who do you think was here to-day, Mr. Stoffel Fouche! He came to get me he said, and h...
- Letters/16:To Mrs. Cawood. , Ratel Hoek, 24th Feb., From seven years to eleven or twelve they should not study too hard, but after that ...
- Letters/17:To Mrs. Cawood. , Ratel Hoek, 26th Feb., ... Now that the time for leaving begins to come near I begin to feel a great pain a...
- Letters/19:To Mrs. Cawood., Eastbourne, 15th Aug., I don’t think when we human beings really love one another we can ever leave of...
- Letters/20:To Mrs. Cawood., Eastbourne, 3rd Oct., I leave on Saturday for London to enter the Endell Street Hospital for three months to...
- Letters/21:To Mrs. Cawood. , 81, Guilford Street, Russell Square, London, 14th May., Dear old friend, so you won't write to me, won'...
- Letters/22:To Mrs. Cawood., 11, Porchester Gardens, London, 11th July, Will came to say goodbye to me on Thursday. We had a very happy t...
- Letters/23:To Mrs. Cawood., St. Leonards-On-Sea, 19th Oct., You see I have left my dear old London, ordered away by the doctors, and hav...
- Letters/24:To Mrs. Cawood. , Rose Cottage, Bexhill, 15th Nov., I am having to go back to St. Leonard's on account of my chest. ..., I ho...
- Letters/25:To Mrs. Cawood., Edinburgh House, St. Leonards, 20th March., ... The great pleasure to me however has been the meeting of som...
- Letters/30:To Mrs. Cawood. , 39, Belgrade Road, London, 13th Sept., I haven't changed a bit in the way you fancy, though I have changed...
- Letters/122:To Mrs. Cawood. , 16, Portsea Place, 5th Oct., I've a great many friends who are very loving to me, but sometimes I feel ve...
- Letters/123:To Mrs. Cawood. , London, 5th Oct., Ach, I would like to see old Africa a bit, I would like to smell the mimosa trees. I oft...
- Letters/168:To Mrs. Cawood., Bournemouth, 19th March., Ach, dear friend, I do long so for a little Cape sunshine sometimes. Everything el...
- Letters/275:To Mrs. Cawood., Alassio, ? March., I am getting on well; another person in health while I stop out of English cold. ... Who ...
- Letters/276:To Mrs. Cawood., Alassio, 16th March., Yes, I will leave you something, my little brown box with all my relics in it, the las...
- National Library of South Africa, Cape Town: Special Collections at the NLSA provide one of the leading locations for archival papers across many periods, organisations a... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.2:Colesberg, Feb 19th 1875, My dearest Katie!, I must write to thank you for the money you have so kindly lent me. It was very ...
- Olive Schreiner: Katie Findlay MSC 26/2.14.7:Ganna Hoek , April 5th 1876, My dear Katie!, You owe me ever so many letters, but then I should have written long ago to than...
- Olive Schreiner: Mary Sauer MSC 26/2.11.99:Middelburg, Ja Feb 6 / 96, Darling Mary , I don't know why I've been thinking so much of you the last days. Last night in the...
- University of Cape Town, Historical Manuscripts: Manuscripts & Archives at the University of Cape Town is a leading location for accessing archival papers across many per... Show/Hide Collection Letters
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold1/1891/7:Darling Fan, Write & tell me a little about "Bilfor" & what you are doing all the time., The Innes are here, delightf...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1893/5:Friday, Dear Laddie, I’m much better. It seems too good to be true that perhaps I shall see you here. If I could go on ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1894/8:Krantz Plaats, PO Halesowen, April 26 / 94, My dear Laddie, Thou art ever in the thoughts of this person. It’s the one ...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold2/1894/12:The Homestead , Nr Kimberley, Nov 29 / 94, Thank you so much for your letter. I’ll tell Mrs Cawood to whom I’ve l...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/7:I’ll have to leave this on the 9th to go to Webbers farm to see about a young lad the son of a friend of mine who is st...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold3/1896/8:Middelburg, Thursday, Feb 6 / 96, Dear Fan, I was so glad to get your letter. I would have answered it at once but I have not...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box3/Fold2/1903/6:Hanover, April 2nd 1903, Dear Fan, I was so glad of a word from you again. I am so often thinking of you., Our old landlady h...