Fonds BC16 - Olive Schreiner Collection

Reference code

ZA UCT BC16

Title

Olive Schreiner Collection

Date(s)

  • 1863-1963 (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

ca.1700 items

Name of creator

(1855-1920)

Biographical history

Olive Schreiner was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual.

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Donors: Mrs May Murray-Parker and Mrs Ursula Scott; Miss Nancy Dick in memory of her mother, Mrs RE Dick; a friend of Olive Schreiner's; Mr and Mrs WW Wendland; Prof. BA Mackenzie; Miss DD Solomon; Miss W de Villiers; Dr Vera Buchanan-Gould (bequest); ca.1700 items.

Scope and content

Donated by Mrs Murray-Parker and Mrs Ursula Scott:
171 letters and 10 postcards from OS to Mrs Frances Hester Schreiner (nee Reitz), wife of WP Schreiner, written between 1890 and 1920; 269 letters from OS to Miss Betty Molteno and to Miss Alice Greene, dating from 1891-1920; 373 letters from OS to her brother WP Schreiner, written between 1884 and 1919; 35 letters from OS to Mrs M Murray-Parker, 1913-1920; 35 letters from and to OS; other correspondence of the Schreiner family and items connected with the Women's Enfranchisement League.

Donated by Mrs M Murray-Parker:
Six reviews of "The land of free speech; record of a campaign of peace in England and Scotland, 1900" by SC Cronwright-Schreiner (1863-1936); "London, New Age, 1904"; 30 OS letters written to Alice Greene between 1900 and 1918.

TSS copies of many of letters listed above, i.a. letters to Mr and Mrs Pethick-Lawrence (1905-1920).

Donated by Mrs Ursula Scott:
44 OS letters to Mrs WP Schreiner between 1892 and 1920; a few miscellaneous letters and items.

Donated by Miss Nancy Dick in memory of her mother, Mrs RE Dick, a friend of OS:

Proof copy of "Sunlight lay across my bed" with comments by W Croumbie Brown; extracts from OS letters to Mrs Mary Brown; TS memoirs of OS by Mrs RE Dick; seven photographs of OS.

Donated by Mr and Mrs WW Wendland:
OS letters and postcards to Lady Rose Innes.

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No restrictions apply

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  • English

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Transcriptions of the letters in this collection are available at https://www.oliveschreiner.org/

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2013

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  • English

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