BRACERS Record Detail for 17371

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
69
Document no.
000283
Box no.
2.56
Source if not BR
Texas, U. of, HRC
Recipient(s)
Morrell, Ottoline
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1911/12/12*
Form of letter
ALS(M)
Pieces
1E
BR's address code (if sender)
LRC
Notes and topics

"Tuesday 6:30 My Darling—Your dear little letter was waiting for me here just now when it got back from Cambridge."

Transcription

BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [12 DEC. 1911]
BRACERS 17371. ALS. Morrell papers #283, Texas
Proofread by K. Blackwell et al.


Russell Chambers.1, 2
Tuesday 6.30.

My Darling

Your dear little letter was waiting for me here just now when I got back from Cambridge. My love you are so dear — I can’t tell you how utterly I love you. Yes it ­was heavenly yesterday. I meant to have written to you in the train, but it was such a squash that it was quite impossible. I finished a sheet of proofs over the journey so I wasted no time. I went on account of a meeting of the Moral Science Board to decide on recommending a psychological laboratory and an assistant for Myers — When I got to my rooms I found a letter which I was just going to open when I saw it was addressed to the Very Reverend the Dean of Ely — immediately afterwards the Very Reverend gentleman himself appeared in his hat and all his glory. He has been put in my room for the night — it is Commemoration Feast, which clerics love. My bedmaker looked terrified when I appeared but I didn’t know why. I got tea out of Ogden who has been asked to edit a new Cambridge paper — very complicated pros and cons, which we went into. All day I had thought I was dining with the Trevys but my book tells me it is the Sangers so it is lucky I looked. I haven’t much time as they dine at 7.15. I will write again for you to get it later tomorrow. Darling you really must let me see the paper with the account of your doings. Now I really must stop. Goodbye my Dearest Heart. I long for you to be back and to get long times together. Let me know how you are.

Your loving
B.

  • 1

    [document] Document 000283. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

  • 2

    [envelope] A circled “283”. The Lady Ottoline Morrell | Towneley Villa | Burnley | Lancashire. Pmk: LONDON.W.C. | 2. AM | DEC 12 11A

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
17371
Record created
Aug 12, 1996
Record last modified
Sep 11, 2025
Created/last modified by
duncana