BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [6 JULY 1911]
BRACERS 17222. ALS. Morrell papers #142, Texas
Proofread by K. Blackwell et al.

Thursday morning.1 The latest of your trains will do for me. I needn’t be in London till 7. My dinner probably won’t last for ever ... I will write to Reading for a taxi, 11.38 I arrive there. I am in haste now as breakfast has come and North will be coming (I have just roused him from a pleasant sleep he had fallen into after being called.). You must have bullied poor Lamb frightfully to make him admit I have improved you. I am very glad he is improved. But you needn’t think that if you bully me I shall admit that he has improved you! (I don’t mean I think the opposite.)

I haven’t time now for what you say about honour and new ties. New ties can’t be formed in that way — it is as bad as marrying for money. Anything except following love is intrinsically bad. You know this, and you know anything else would be degrading. We can speak of it when we meet, can’t we?

Darling I must stop. I shall be with you about twelve, or a few minutes after. I long for you.

Your utterly devoted
B

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  [document] Document 000142. Proofread against a colour scan of the original. Although it is numbered letter #142, it appears to be a continuation of #137 (17217).