BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [13 SEPT. 1911]
BRACERS 17259. ALS. Morrell papers #178, Texas
Proofread by K. Blackwell et al.

Würzburg.1^, 2
Wed. 10.50 p.m.3

My Dearest Love

I have no German stamps, so this will probably have to go without a stamp. I left the budding Rufus without any regret at Nuremberg, after dining with him and treating him with the utmost politeness. I have had no adventures so far, beyond being told by a German that my feet smelt, to which I replied that if he put his nose further off he might suffer less. I had already come to the conclusion that he was mad before this incident. Now I have only one fellow passenger, and may hope for a comfortable night.

I do hope you will really be the better for your mud baths and waters — I quite think you will. And the rest of your time abroad ought to do you good too — I shall expect to find you tremendously well when you come home. Then I shall set you tasks in philosophy and make you write answers to questions — Such as “Explain Spinoza’s doctrine of modes. How does an infinite and eternal mode differ from an attribute?” Then you will need another cure at Xmas.

Dearest I can’t write properly in this very shaky train. The whole summer has been so wonderful that I can’t find words.

I have a very deep inward happiness — altho’ I owe it all to you I believe something of it would survive if I lost you — a faith and a knowledge of how it is possible to live, which I did not have before. Now good night my Darling, my Ottoline — My heart and soul and mind are yours utterly.

B.

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  [document] Document 000178. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

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  [envelope] A circled “178”.

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  [date] BR’s previous letter to Ottoline was on 28 August. He was due to arrive in Marienbad (Marianské Lázně) in what is now the Czech Republic) on 31 August. No letters from him to anyone are extant in RA until the present letter.