BRACERS Record Detail for 17200
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"Tuesday night. My Dearest Dearest—What a heavenly day we had."
BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [20 JUNE 1911]
BRACERS 17200. ALS. Morrell papers #122, Texas
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Trinity College,
Cambridge.1, 2
In the train
Tuesday night
My Dearest Dearest
What a heavenly day we had. It was very nice getting so much talk, altho’ I am afraid you thought me less improving than you might reasonably have hoped. However I will improve you in due course — if I were you I would not be in a hurry for the moment. I think the first thing is to learn to think logically and for that purpose you should learn the figures of the syllogism. I will get you a little book and get you questions such as “How do you convert Baroko to the first figure?” When you are quite perfect in this, I will explain obversion, inversion, reversion, introversion, extroversion, etc. etc. Perhaps by the time you are 60 I shall think the moment come for applying logic to some of the simpler problems of life, such as the proof that business is business or that boys will be boys.
Darling I don’t know what induces me to write such nonsense to you — I am utterly filled with happiness and with the delight of you. There is no limit to the joy you give me. It was so odd while your brother was with you. I kept telling myself you were someone I really knew quite well — otherwise I felt inclined to look at myself as a queer fish turned up unexpectedly and almost as unknown to you as to your brother.
I knew how it would be as soon as he was gone, yet I hadn’t the feeling of it. I saw him looking at me with slight curiosity — It is so funny having so little ordinary social knowledge of you. — I hope Desmond was entertaining — he can be, very.
Goodbye Darling. I love you with all my heart and soul, absolutely, utterly, more and more. You give me the most absolute contentment, my Life, my Ottoline.
Your
B.
