BRACERS Record Detail for 17087

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
69
Document no.
000027
Box no.
2.53
Filed
OM scans 18_4_2: 41
Source if not BR
Texas, U. of, HRC
Recipient(s)
Morrell, Ottoline
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1911/04/11*
Form of letter
ALS(DX)
Pieces
1
Notes and topics

"Tuesday morning [letter number not written on letter] My very dearest—your two letters have reached me and I have just read them—it is very good of you to tell me so much about your life, and it all interests me profoundly."

Transcription

BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [11 APR. 1911]
BRACERS 17087. ALS. Morrell papers #27, Texas
Proofread by K. Blackwell and A.G. Bone


<Fernhurst>
Tuesday morning1 , 2

My very Dearest

Your two letters have reached me and I have just read them — it is very good of you to tell me so much about your life, and it all interests me profoundly. Youa had much sorrow and little happiness. You are wrong in thinking I feel a prejudice against Sister Julian. I have a prejudice about priests and parsons, but that is different. I understand so well the feeling that leads people into sisterhoods or brotherhoods — if there had been any for atheists I should have gone into one long ago, I believe. But I should not have had a sufficiently constant faith to succeed in the life.

I thought from your letters yesterday that this week was incompatible with next week, or I should have chosen both, like the naughty child with the puddings. But I dare say it is as well not to be there two successive weeks, from the point of view of talk and gossip.

There is no time for a proper letter now before the post goes. You will see I had an absurd fit of melancholy last night — I am not burning the letter I wrote, tho’ perhaps I ought to. This morning everything seems full of joy again. I like to think of you and Julian running by the sea and being gay. I am glad you have come to feel the sea. I have spent a good deal of time with the sea, and I care for it a great deal, tho’ in an undemonstrative way — I like to know it is there — shining beneath the moon or black beneath the thunder —

I am sorry now I didn’t come this week, particularly if it turns out that we should have had as much time as next week. However, I hope you will be rested next week, and the weather ought to be warmer. It would be nice if we could sit out of doors. Studland neighbourhood is full of nice heathy places. — No, I haven’t read Acton, but I mean to. The French Revolution is much the most interesting time in history, I think.

Now Dearest I must get up. They have rung the breakfast bell twice in hopes of producing some effect. I am full of happiness and love. Dearest, I long to kiss you and feel your arms — words are so inadequate and so hard to find. I am hungry for you and longing to be with you. Goodbye my Dearest, my heart, my Ottoline.

B.

  • 1

    [document] Document 000027. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

  • 2[envelope] No envelope accompanies this letter in the scans or on the microfilm, and no number is written on the letter. It is given “27” to fit the sequence.

Textual Notes

  • a

    You written over obliterated word

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
17087
Record created
Oct 10, 1990
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
blackwk