BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [11 MAY 1911]
BRACERS 17133. ALS. Morrell papers #63, Texas
Proofread by K. Blackwell et al.

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Trinity College,
Cambridge.1^, 2
Thursday night

Darling

Your dear dear letter has just come, and I have only a moment to write. I met Oliver Strachey and he asked how early he might come, so my evening will begin sooner than usual. Yes I know how worry tightens up love inside — I felt it when I worried. — Our love is part of nature, and that is so wonderful — it rises so high, and yet is so wholly natural. It is very amazing. Generally the greatest heights seem only to be reached by going away from nature, but it is not so with us — and that makes the heights so secure.

I hope you will have good weather tomorrow for your crossing, and enjoy seeing your Russian friends. I met a French disciple of mine this afternoon, who I thought was in Paris; he said he had seen me yesterday “mais vous étiez avec Madame”; fortunately he had never seen Madame. — Mrs Webb was very nice. I don’t think she sniffed your scent or thought me a gay dog. I asked her what she had to object to in Lloyd George’s Insurance scheme, and the answer took roughly half an hour. Then Karin stayed on and was taught — she had done me an excellent paper on Berkeley. — You won’t find the day of argumenta at all terrible really when it comes. — I long for long days away from servants. I think we must manage some day to get off by ourselves not in a house of yours but quite away where no one knows who we are — it would be such a joy. I don’t mean that Peppard would not be delightful, only you would be so much gayer away from your household.

No, Darling, I don’t think you need be afraid about my finding out your intellect — in fact, you know you needn’t — that is all nonsense. I am thankful I have never jarred you or hurt you. And I really think I never shall jar you — I am less certain of not hurting you, but I earnestly hope I never shall. Now I must stop. Goodnight my Darling, my love, my Ottoline. Your love turns all my life to sunshine.

Your
B.

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  [document] Document 000063. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

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  [envelope] A circled “63”. The Lady Ottoline Morrell | 44 Bedford Square | London W.C. Pmk: ??.

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