BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [3 JUNE 1913]
BRACERS 17931. ALS. Morrell papers #795, Texas
Proofread by K. Blackwell et al.

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Trinity College,
Cambridge.1^, 2
17 Carlyle Square
Tuesday aftn.

My Darling Love

This is just a line as it will be too late for the post if I write in the train tonight. Nothing much has happened since I wrote last night. Mrs W. is very tired and ill. I read my screed about Science3 to her and Jessie and they liked it. In odd moments yesterday and today I have read The Third Miss Symons by Mayor’s sister4 — quite good. It is about Miss Sheepshanks, though Miss Mayor indignantly denies that it is. It would make you see why everyone pities Miss Sheepshanks.

I am very tired and headachy today, but I only want a long sleep, which I shall get tonight. I suppose the writing had tired me more than I realized. It is not being here that tires me. The sort of difficulty I used to feel here a year ago has absolutely ceased — there is not a trace of it left. — I have talked to Whitehead about the work I have been doing — it is not much in his line but he seems pleased with it.

Dearest I long for you so much.

I shall be in London Sat. night, Sunday and Monday nights, so please write to Russell Chambers Friday Sat. and Sunday. I shall be busy with Aristn. Soc. and fusses of various kinds.

Goodbye Darling. How heavenly it will be to be happy together again — but I must go back into my tunnel tomorrow. All my love is with you Dearest.

Your
B

• 1

  [document] Document 000795. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

• 2

  [envelope] A circled “795”. The Lady Ottoline Morrell | chez Madame Chartier | 3 Avenue Agassiz | Lausanne | Switzerland. Pmk: CHELSE. S.W. | 3.30 PM | 3 JUN 13

• 3

  Science “Science as an Element in Culture”, The New Statesman 1 (24 and 31 May 1913): 202–4, 234–6 (38 in Papers 12).

• 4

  Mayor’s sister Flora MacDonald Mayor (1872–1932), also author of The Rector’s Daughter and A Wasted Life.