BRACERS Record Detail for 17098

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
69
Document no.
000033
Box no.
2.53
Filed
OM scans 18_5: 31
Source if not BR
Texas, U. of, HRC
Recipient(s)
Morrell, Ottoline
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1911/04/16*
Form of letter
ALS(DX)
Pieces
1E
BR's address code (if sender)
VBC
Notes and topics

"Easter morning My Darling—your two letters have just come."

Transcription

BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [16 APR. 1911]
BRACERS 17098. ALS. Morrell papers #33, Texas
Proofread by K. Blackwell and A.G. Bone


Fernhurst1 , 2
Easter morning

My Darling

Your two letters have just come. It is tiresome having such a bad head. Yes Dearest, do come to the wood to meet me as I come. It would be very delightful to be there or on the moor before tea. Unless you write or telegraph to the contrary to Southampton, I shall arrive 1.49. There is nothing earlier after 12.

Spring Rice couldn’t come after all.

I will try to get to know Julian, but I am very shy with children, and it sometimes takes a long time. And there is of course no more certainty of success than with grown-up people.

Dearest, as the time grows nearer, words seem more and more pale and useless. The day after tomorrow — and we shall have no need of words. (No, you are not at all like Mrs Graham Wallas! Do you think you are? You are one of those who put colour into things, like the Sun, not one of those who take away the colour, like a fog.)

Dearest, I must get up — nine o’clock is striking, and that is nominally when we breakfast. I can’t realize or believe the happiness of three days with you. I feel as if after that the world might come to an end for all I should care — I know there will still be time after it, but the time after seems so remote and unimportant that I can’t think of it.

Goodbye, Goodbye my Ottoline. I do hope you are getting over your bad head and troubles. I love you, I love you, I love you —

B.

  • 1

    [document] Document 000033. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

  • 2

    [envelope] A circled “33”. The Lady Ottoline Morrell | Cliff End | Studland | Dorset. Pmk: FERNHURST | AP 16 | 11. On the verso: WAREHAM | ? AM | 230 AM | AP 17 | 11

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
17098
Record created
Feb 27, 1991
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
blackwk