BRACERS Record Detail for 107302

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
596
Document no.
200895C
Box no.
6.68
Source if not BR
Malleson, Constance
Recipient(s)
Fish, Phyllis
Urch, Phyllis (aka)
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1949/12/02
Form of letter
ALS
Pieces
1E
BR's address code (if sender)
LBH
Notes, topics or text

"Your letter and Colette's cause me very intense grief." BR is astonished that Malleson's letter should be one of farewell.

BR is at Baldwin's Hotel until Wednesday.

Transcription

BR TO PHYLLIS FISH, 2 DEC. 1949
BRACERS 107302. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell


Baldwin’s Hotel,
Dover Str.,
W.1
2 Dec. 1949

Dear Miss Fish1

Your letter and Colette’s cause me very intense grief. I am, as you advise, not writing to her, but I shall be infinitely grateful if you can give me some more information. I heard indirectly that she had gone to Russia, but I heard nothing about it from her. In the letter you forward she says “It is a crowning irony that you should have made Russia seem a paradise for me compared with England”. I cannot make head or tail of this. She seems to feel I have treated her badly. I thought she realized that while my affairs are in a ticklish state it is necessary; for her sake as much as for mine, to be very circumspect. Her letter is one of farewell, and is completely astonishing to me. When she is sufficiently recovered, I should like her to know that she must have quite misunderstood what I was feeling about her.

Do tell me more about her nervous break-down. I am here till Wednesday; then, FESTINIOG, N. Wales.

Yours sincerely
Russell

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    envelope: Miss Phyllis Fish | 134 Westbourne Grove | W.2.

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
107302
Record created
Jun 18, 2014
Record last modified
Oct 03, 2023
Created/last modified by
duncana