BRACERS Record Detail for 17148
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"Evening. My Dearest Love—I have just time for a line before the post goes—to thank you for your dear little letter."
BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, 19 MAY [1911]
BRACERS 17148. ALS. Morrell papers #75, Texas
Proofread by K. Blackwell et al.
Trinity College,
Cambridge.1, 2
May 19. evening.
My Dearest love
I have just time for a line before the post goes — to thank you for your dear little letter. Yes, I find the longing for you too coming over me — and sometimes I lose the thread of other people’s talk for ever so long, thinking of you — and then I see them looking hurt, and wake up. I have just come in from dinner with the Mirrlees’s, who live in the house the Whiteheads used to have. Arthur Dakyns is staying there — for the sake of the daughter. It is odd seeing other people there. They are a relief because they are not academic — he was a farmer in Natal, fought in the war, and now has come to Cambridge to watch over the clever daughter. The mother is charming, tho’ a Xtian Scientist — I wonder whether your 13 people are still with you. My Grandmother Stanley always used purposely to have 13 on her birthday, and if anybody confessed to superstition, she would attack them without any mercy.
Darling I hope you are not too tired now — My room has been fragrant and delicious with the roses and narcissus all day — I hate to leave them — except that the Source of them is on my journey. Dearest it will be a joy to see you again tomorrow. I have been very very happy these two days — more completely and utterly happy than ever before — Goodbye my heart, my life. I love you I love you.
Your loving
B.
