BRACERS Record Detail for 17258

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
69
Document no.
000177
Box no.
2.55
Filed
OM scans 19_5: 04
Source if not BR
Texas, U. of, HRC
Recipient(s)
Morrell, Ottoline
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1911/09/17*
Form of letter
ALS(M)
Pieces
1E
BR's address code (if sender)
IPO
Notes and topics

"Sunday aftn."

"I shall hope to get a good deal of my Arist. address finished before I leave here."

Transcription

BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [17 SEPT. 1911]
BRACERS 17258. ALS. Morrell papers #177, Texas
Proofread by K. Blackwell et al.


Ipsden1, 2
Sunday aftn.

My Dearest Love

I was punished for getting two letters yesterday by getting none this morning, and I am afraid you will get none tomorrow, owing to Sunday. It seemed very blank without a letter, but I dare say I shall get two tomorrow. I am sitting on a hill between Ipsden and Wallingford, stubble with clumps of beach, and a view all round. Everything is very autumnal and rather melancholy. —

Yesterday I finished my proofs and Sandra, now I have read nearly half of Broad. He is about 2½ times as long as my shilling shocker, almost all of it dull; and I shall have to read him again probably. Fortunately he doesn’t refer to other authors much, so I shan’t have to look up other people. I shall hope to get a good deal of my Aristn. address finished before I leave here, unless I have an avalanche of proofs. — Miss Silcox didn’t come — I haven’t yet heard from her. I answered Mrs Tennyson (enclosed) that I would call some time when I am in London for the day. I have just begun Les Frères Karamazoff — the 6 radical thinkers,3 as you expected, I didn’t much like, so I only read bits. The author seemed to me rhetorical and not very much in earnest. Now you will think me like the Lambkin, and stamp your foot and say I am too annoying.

I have a great deal of time for work and reading here. But I shall be glad to get to Cambridge — seeing people makes the time pass quicker. It already seems an eternity since that last moment at the station — I could almost believe it was in a previous life. Having settled into a routine here makes it seem so long. I have not yet been in the Peppard direction at all — not even as far as the near woods. The country is quite as beautiful as it was, but I get no intoxication because of the busy feeling of things to do; also I should want you too much if I did.

Goodbye my Beloved, I wish the time would pass quickly.

Your utterly devoted
B.

  • 1

    [document] Document 000177. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

  • 2

    [envelope] ??.

  • 3

    6 radical thinkersSix Radical Thinkers by John MacCunn (1907).

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
17258
Record created
May 20, 2014
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
duncana