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George Adams
George Adams was an important figure in the life of Schreiner’s close friend Edward Carpenter. Adams was working class and orphaned at a young age; he “worked as a gardener for a philanthropic family, who encouraged his interest in art.” He joined the Sheffield Socialists in the mid-1880s and “would later move to Millthorpe with his family, where he gardened, painted and made sandals.” (Rowbotham 2008: 86). George’s wife was Lucy Adams with whom he had two children, although he also had an ongoing relationship with Carpenter from the late 1880s too. He and Carpenter became estranged in 1897. Adams died in December 1910. Schreiner met up with Carpenter and Adams at Whitby in August 1887 and thereafter often asked after Adams in her letters to Carpenter, at one point referring to him as “my dear friend Adams”, and frequently asked Carpenter to send him her love. According to Sheila Rowbotham, “George Adams and Alf Mattison both carried a flame for Olive Schreiner” (Rowbotham 2008: 234) during the 1890s.
For further information see:
Sheila Rowbotham (2008) Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love London: Verso

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Olive Schreiner: Edward Carpenter SMD 30/32/h:Portlock, nr Graaff Reinet, Cape of Good Hope, Jan 7 / 11, Dear old Edward, It's born in on me I must write to you, though wh...
Olive Schreiner: Edward Carpenter SMD 30/32/m:De Aar, April 29 / 13, /13, My dear old Edward, I wonder how the world goes with you. I often wonder just what your feeling a...
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Edward Carpenter 359/12:50 Gore Rd, Victoria Park , Saturday, Dear Edward Carpenter , I send your St. Augustine. It has been sweet to me to think you...
Edward Carpenter 359/13:Xmas morning, I’ve just got your letter & photo. The sun is shining on the terrace out side my door. It is very col...
Edward Carpenter 359/15:Sante Croci , Alassio, Sunday morning , I’ve come up here. It’s a little ruined chapel on a point sticking out in...
Edward Carpenter 359/17:Hotel Oxford et Cambridge, Rue d’Alger, Paris , No, dear old man, it’s not men that trouble me its middle class w...
Edward Carpenter 359/21:Alassio, Monday, I got your letter from Paris. It’s very unkind of you always to remember that I drove in a cab with lu...
Edward Carpenter 359/24:My dear old Brother, I’ve not written to you because I’ve had nothing to say. , It joys me to know that things go...
Edward Carpenter 359/27:Thou ?wert right & not right about the article. I should not have mentioned a friend’s name. I’ve tried thre...
Edward Carpenter 359/28:The Doctor has ordered me to Mentone. Address Poste Restante there if you need to write. I’ve had low fever: Oh Edward,...
Edward Carpenter 359/29:Hotel du Pavillon, Mentone, Dear Edward Carpenter,, Will you please send me back Mrs Bland’s letter. You will forgive m...
Edward Carpenter 359/33:Sunday night, My dear Edward, I was glad to get your letter. You must get away to the sunshine if you can. We’ve had ra...
Edward Carpenter 359/37:Dear Edward, If you get to know Mr Pearson well you’ll never say any thing of anything I’ve told you of other peo...
Edward Carpenter 359/41:Ladies Chambers, Chenies Street , Saturday , My dear Edward , If you don’t find the savage book what you like send it b...
Edward Carpenter 359/46:Cape Town , Jan 31 / 90 , My Ed’rd, I send you a note I’ve just got from Ettie. It was a great disappointment to ...
Edward Carpenter 359/47:Sunday morning , Beautiful blue sky. Mountains twirling up into it. , Feb 15 / 90 , Dear Edward, I have just come back from t...
Edward Carpenter 359/48:Cape Town, Dear Ed,, I expect you are all at Abbottsholm. Just a word because I want to communicate with you but I’m to...
Edward Carpenter 359/50:Matjesfontein, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa , July 20 / 90, It was such a surprise & pleasure to get your letter last ...
Edward Carpenter 359/52:Matjesfontein, April 22 / 91, My dear old Edward , Why comes it in my heart tonight to write to you. I am sitting here in my ...
Edward Carpenter 359/53:My dear Edward, I’m some how wanting to hear from you & I don’t! Bob wrote to me the other day, but didn’...
Edward Carpenter 359/54:Sunday night, Cape Town , 1892, Dear Edward , It is lateish & I am sitting upstairs in my little room in a boarding house...
Edward Carpenter 359/55:Cape Town , May 23 / 92, Dear Ed , It’s nice to think of you being in the world somewhere. It’s nice to think of ...
Edward Carpenter 359/59:Xmas day, 1892, Dear Ed , I want to write to you this day. It’s so nice here. I’m staying at the old farm where I...
Edward Carpenter 359/60:Dear Old Ned, I’m coming home in April next. It will be beautiful to see you all. Old Bob & George & all of you...
Edward Carpenter 359/64:Millthorpe, Sunday, Dear EC., This place does suit me better than any place I’ve ever been in in England. I shall stay ...
Edward Carpenter 359/66:Middelburg , Nov 9 / 93 , My dear old Ed , I want so to write to you tonight though I have not much to say that is interestin...
Edward Carpenter 359/78:The Grand Hotel , Alassio, Riviera, Italy, April 3 / 97 , Dear old Ed, It was a good thing seeing your face in London. We’...
Edward Carpenter 359/79:31 Lower Belgrave St, S.W., Sunday , Dear E.C. , I didn’t get another sight of your face. We are staying on & on in...
Edward Carpenter 359/80:The Homestead, Kimberley , Dec 14 / 97, Dear old Ed, I am sending you a paper concerning our last fight with Rhodes & the...
Edward Carpenter 359/81:The Homestead, Jan 18 / 98 , Dear EC, , I’m not at all surprised that George & Lucy & the young ones are going...
Edward Carpenter 359/90:Hanover, CC Cape Colony , South Africa, Oct 26 / 05 , Dear Edward , It was nice to see your handwriting again. The Lawrence s...
Edward Carpenter 359/95:Oudeberg, nr. Graaff Reinet , Jan 31st 1911 , Dear Ed , I was glad to get your letter. I don’t know why I’ve had ...