BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [14 JUNE 1913]
BRACERS 17945. ALS. Morrell papers #807, Texas
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My Darling Love

Your dear letter of Thursday reached me in London last night. I am so thankful you are feeling better — I suppose getting up early must be wholesome. I am glad too about Julian. Yes, I was quite wrong in thinking it wouldn’t be any real good — I am thankful I was — No, you didn’t tell me the philosophic mademoiselle was coming to teach J. — I think one feels Lane Poole himself to be dull in his book, and he doesn’t make the most of his material. But there are so many facts in his booka that are interesting and otherwise hard to get at, that one gets a great deal in spite of him. — I hear the Whiteheads are coming here on the 17th to see North take his degree, so I shall be at a loose end. If by any chance you are not utterly exhausted and have one spare moment, perhaps I might get a glimpse of you then? Wed. I am free except from 1 to 4. — I don’t remember Santayana on Platonic love. I should immensely like to read Michelangelo’s sonnets, which I have only seen in Symonds’s translation — and have not read carefully even there. — Mildred yesterday was uninteresting — how a touch of insincerity takes all the colour out of people! Karin was much nicer. K. still has her Russian Countess, though she has struggled to get rid of her. K. has grown interested in mysticism. She evidently wants a religion and is feeling after it. I encouraged her, and said how great and important mysticism is, if it kept under sufficiently.

I bought the Yellow Book — you will find it waiting when you arrive.

North has just been talking to me. He plans going out to East Africa as administrator. I think it will suit him, if the climate doesn’t kill him. He will go out in a year if all goes well. The prospect pleases him, and has made him no longer mind his 3rd.

I have a cold, which makes me stupid. I hope it will be gone by the time you come home — I think so, as it is not very bad.

Darling I long to be with you again. It has been a sort of twilight existence all this time — I feel such a longing for the life in spiritual things which seems impossible when you are away — Dearest I do love you and yearn for you.

Your
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  [document] Document 000807. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

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  [envelope] A circled “807”. The Lady Ottoline Morrell | Hôtel des Saints Pères | Rue des Saints Pères | Paris | France.  Pmk: CAMBRIDGE | 3.15 PM | 14 JUN 13

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