BRACERS Record Detail for 17903

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
69
Document no.
000772
Box no.
2.61
Source if not BR
Texas, U. of, HRC
Recipient(s)
Morrell, Ottoline
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1913/05/11*
Form of letter
ALS(DX)
Pieces
1E
BR's address code (if sender)
TC
Transcription

BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [11 MAY 1913]
BRACERS 17903. ALS. Morrell papers #772, Texas
Proofread by K. Blackwell et al.


<letterhead>
Trinity College,
Cambridge.1, 2
Sunday evg.

My Darling Love

Your 1st letter from Lausanne, which arrived this morning, was a very great relief — your letter from Paris seemed so very unhappy. Do tell me more about your visit to Anrep — I mean what you felt and whether you minded it. It is a comfort to think you have done with travelling for the present, and also that now your letters will come regularly. It makes me almost ill with longing to think of all those places in Lausanne where we have been so happy. How is the woman at the corner who sells flowers? Has Combe cured you of filling your room with them or does he still have to “lutter contre elle-même”? Have you been back to the woods behind the hospital? They must be lovely now. The spring makes one melancholy — one can’t help being alive, which is painful. It is very beautiful here. I am sitting out in the Roundabout — the lilaac is out and the place is full of narcissus and crocuses and all kinds of flowers. — I am keeping well ahead of my 10 pages a day — I have reached p. 55 and am only due at p. 50. I have finished refuting James’s view that there is no such thing as consciousness, and now I have to give my own account of it. It all goes wonderfully easily, but I see I must make it follow a simple account of my logic, which I will do in the winter — I have to assume points in logic constantly. I enjoy writing it immensely, and I love having no doubt in the morning as to what I shall do with the day.

I lunched at the Wards today to meet Prof. J.A. Smith, whom I hate. He is pompous and pretentious and ignorant. I have a special hatred for philosophers — I wonder if I shall ever learn to include them in universal love.

He and Ward are coming to me tonight after Hall — so are Norton and Bevan and Moore, and Hugh Meredith who is dining with me. So I shall have a regular scrimmage.

Yesterday I went to a tea-party to meet Harold Spender who is the candidate for Cambridge. He has offended the suffragettes by making jokes about suffrage — they are a very ferocious set of people, and I doubt if he will conciliate them. But they don’t represent many votes. He doesn’t seem up to much.

Thanks for telling me of that novel — if it is in the Union I will read it. I read a novel by Anne Sedgwick which I thought good, called the Shadow of life — do read it some time.

Darling I am so full of love to you — every moment the thought of you is with me, filling me with joy, in spite of the pain of absence. If by any chance you are alone on the journey home, I can come to you after June 8. I do hope you are not feeling unhappy. Dear Heart, I love you, love you love you.

Your
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  • 1

    [document] Document 000772. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

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    [envelope] A circled “772”. The Lady Ottoline Morrell | Hôtel Riche-Mont | Lausanne | Switzerland. Pmk: CAMBRIDGE | 10.15 PM | 11 MAY 13

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Transcription Public Access
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Record no.
17903
Record created
May 20, 2014
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
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