BRACERS Record Detail for 107302
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"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.
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.