BRACERS Record Detail for 17072

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
69
Document no.
000016
Box no.
2.53
Filed
OM scans 18_4_1: 70
Source if not BR
Texas, U. of, HRC
Recipient(s)
Morrell, Ottoline
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1911/04/03*
Form of letter
ALS(DX)
Pieces
1E
BR's address code (if sender)
TRN
Notes and topics

"Monday aftn. My Dearest I am in a full carriage which makes it almost impossible to write."

Transcription

BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [3 APR. 1911]
BRACERS 17072. ALS. Morrell papers #16, Texas
Proofread by K. Blackwell and A.G. Bone


In the train <to London>
Monday aftn.1, 2

My Dearest

I am in a full carriage which makes it almost impossible to write. I begin to breathe when I get away from the atmosphere at Fernhurst. What makes Alys so difficult is the mixture of genuine suffering with insincerity and heroics, so that she rouses sympathy and antagonism at the same moment. Dickinson I found myself quite out of touch with. I had nothing to say to him.

The Ponsonbys on the contrary were very soothing — I went to tea there yesterday. The atmosphere was delightful — full of beauty, and giving one the sense of a good inner life.

I cannot write more in this crowd. Dearest I am hungry for you, and I count the hours till Wednesday. Your picture is a great joy to me — it has enough of you to shew your beauty and much of your character, but it looks sad. Goodbye my dearest love, my heart, my joy.

B.

  • 1

    [document] Document 000016. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

  • 2

    [envelope] A circled “16”. The Lady Ottoline Morrell | 44 Bedford Square | W.C. Pmk: LONDON.S.E. | 6. PM | APL 3 | ?B

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
17072
Record created
Sep 13, 1990
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
blackwk