BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [9 JUNE 1911]
BRACERS 17181. ALS. Morrell papers #106, Texas
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More’s Garden1^, 2
Friday night
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Trinity College,
Cambridge.

My Darling

This must be only a line as the post goes soon. I enclose 3 letters which please returna — the one from my brother is a bit odd, the other two very nice. Miss Harrison’s letter has a history behind it, which I have just learnt from Mrs Whitehead. Miss H. had heard, on very reliable authority, that the real cause was a married woman in Cambridge, name unknown. Mrs Whitehead was able to deny this with emphasis. But Miss H. evidently wants reassuring. I have said in reply “I hope and believe I shall always continue to deserve your confidence in my doing the straight thing — I know I have many faults, but I should not easily fail to be straight, I think.” This is an attempt to deceive, and therefore a lie, though it does state a fact. I don’t know how the report grew, but my theory is Ray — Oliver — Purnell Strachey. I shall go to see Miss H. some day soon, and if she mentions anything I can easily squash it.

Whitehead is very friendly this time, and we had a good talk on work. His shilling shocker (on Mathcs.) in the same series as mine is to appear in a few days.

How different things are now from what they were when I was last here. I sat writing in black misery then — now I am so filled with happiness that nothing would touch it. Your wood is lovely — and how beautiful the night was. Every moment was divine — Dearest, Dearest, you are most infinitely precious to me. You fill my soul with beauty and with all that is noble and great. Goodnight my heart.

Yours utterly
B.

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  [document] Document 000106. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

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  [envelope] ??.

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