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Arthur Symons
Arthur William Symons (1865-1945) was a British writer and literary scholar. At the age of seventeen he published an article about Robert Browning which launched his career as a writer. Symons wrote and published prolifically and by the 1890s was a key member of London literary circles. He was also a close friend of Havelock Ellis’s, which appears to be how Schreiner came to know him. There is one extant letter from Schreiner to Symons, dating from 1898. In it Schreiner comments on a photograph of Symons, and also discusses the translation of The Story of an African Farm into French, asking whether in the past it was Symons who had perhaps said he would undertake this.
For further information see:
Karl Beckson (2004) ‘Symons, Arthur William (1865-1945)’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36400
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HRC/OliveSchreinerLetters/OS-ArthurSymons/1:Dear Arthur Symons,, Your photo is without any exception the best thing in the way of photographs I have ever seen, it has mo...
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- HRC/HavelockEllis/Misc/OS-HavelockEllisMisc/1:I am going down to , Knap-Hill, Nr Woking , Surrey, on Saturday Alice will be there on till Monday afternoon. Can you come on...
- HRC/UNCAT/OS-14:4 Rob. Ter. , Tuesday Eve. , I am sending you our article. It is exceedingly interesting (I am speaking critically now) one w...
- HRC/UNCAT/OS-130:Friday, Havelock I think I felt nearer to you yesterday than ever in my life before. I felt as if we understood one another. ...
- HRC/CAT/OS/4b-xii:Matjesfontein , May 13 / 90 , I got your journal letter & liked it. Did Symons have to pay on the post card I sent him?, ...
- HRC/CAT/OS/4b-ix:Matjesfontein , May 23 / 90 , My journal hasn’t got on this week. I’m expecting English letters. It is snowing &...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerUncatLetters/OS-TFisherUnwin/40:19 Russell Road,, Kensington W., 14.2.97, Dear Mr Unwin,, Thanks for your note, for the 24 copies, & for sending Mr Lutz ...
- HRC/OliveSchreinerLetters/OS-ArthurSymons/1:Dear Arthur Symons,, Your photo is without any exception the best thing in the way of photographs I have ever seen, it has mo...
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- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold1/1891/11:Matjesfontein, Sunday , Dear Boy,, I haven’t a new tale you can have but if you like to reprint little story from New C...
- Olive Schreiner BC16/Box1/Fold4/1897/5:Address: Poste Restante, Amalfi, ------------------------------, Rome, March 15 / 97, Dear Laddie, Ellis was in town staying ...