BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [22 MAY 1913]
BRACERS 17917. ALS. Morrell papers #783, Texas
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Trinity College,
Cambridge.1^, 2
Thursday aftn.

My Darling Love

I was very glad of your letter of Tuesday — for some reason your letters have taken to arriving by 2nd post — I don’t know why. Your French teacher sounds most fascinating — I am quite in love with her already! — Mrs W. gave me news of Alys and Logan — she had been staying at Ford Place. She thinks Alys very happy on the whole now, and no longer in the least vindictive. She says Logan waylays her, when Alys is not by, to say nice things about you — it is rather pathetic. The mere lapse of time has reconciled them to things I suppose. Certainly now there is not the remotest chance of her doing anything vindictive. As far as that goes, we needn’t give it another thought.

I have thought about nothing but work since I last wrote. I am past 160 pages now, and still going on at the same rate. It means being very busy, as of course everything else goes on as usual. But I don’t encourage people to come and see me — sometimes I sport my oak3 — and I avoid everything that isn’t quite unavoidable. The part I am at now doesn’t interest me much, as I have not much that is new to say about it. I shall come to more interesting things soon, when I get on to judgment.

I am sorry to write such a stupid letter — work has absorbed all my faculties for the moment. You have not told me yet as much as I want to know of what Combe says about you. PLEASE do.

The time is long till we meet again. I long for it. Goodbye my Darling.

Your
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  [document] Document 000783. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

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  [envelope] The Lady Ottoline Morrell | Hôtel Riche-Mont | Lausanne | Switzerland. Pmk: CAMBRIDGE | 3.15 PM | 22 MAY 13

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  sport my oak Close the outer door to his college rooms.