BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [10 JULY 1911]
BRACERS 17223. ALS. Morrell papers #143, Texas
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Upper Wyche.1^, 2
Monday midday

My Dearest Love (or shall I say Respected Madam?)

Your letter of yesterday has just come — I was glad of it. First: I will come Friday as before, reaching you about 12 (Reading 11.40). Will you order a taxi at Reading or shall I? I will sleep in London Friday. I can stay as long as you can let me the following week. July 31 (Monday) I dine with my brother. Monday August 7 I lecture at Girton. Those are all my engagements so far.

I don’t think the distance to Ipsden will matter. It will only take half an hour on my bicycle, and sometimes we can meet in the woods between.

I am so glad about your serpent ring. You wouldn’t believe how I love the locket with your hair or what joy it gives me to have it. You didn’t write nonsense in the train. I am very sorry you were so tired.

I think I could share a cottage with a man friend if I could tell him about you — not otherwise. — The moving about doesn’t matter in the least for the present, because it is positively desirable I shouldn’t get absorbed in another book for some time. But after a year or two I shall have to get more settled.

My writing on my S. S. goes very well, and I am getting well into it. I shall easily finish it in time I think.

I enjoy thinking about work to do, and I see that as soon as our affairs get into a settled state I shall be able to get a great deal done with very little effort of will. I have grown so much younger lately in energy and hope that a new big task is quite pleasant to contemplate, whereas before it was a nightmare. O how delicious it will be being at Ipsden and seeing you constantly. It will be divine. Darling I have no time for a proper letter. This must go. I do love you, Dearest, so much. There is the luncheon bell so goodbye.

Your loving
B

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