BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, [12 JULY 1913]
BRACERS 17967. ALS. Morrell papers #827, Texas
Proofread by A.G. Bone et al.

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Trinity College,
Cambridge.1^, 2
Lockeridge
Marlborough
Sat. evg.

My Darling Darling

I was very glad to get your letter at Penzance this morning — I had been longing to hear from you. But I felt you were sad and not at all well. — Dear Love do let us meet whenever you can spare the time. I am so longing to be with you. I have just kissed your locket and your writing in the Leopardi — but they are only a cold substitute for you. I can come up any day. I do love you Dearest with all my soul — and my life is bound up with you, whether in happiness or without it.

We left the Scilly Islands yesterday evening. I have never known any place so absolutely satisfy my soul — I came to love it almost in the way I love you. It has a sort of unearthly enchanted beauty — quiet seas and skies, long low coast-lines, and the wild Atlantic just beyond.

I feel I could live and die there and forget the world — I never hated leaving a place so much — every mile of the journey today was like the miles travelled from those one loves.

My nerves are quite rested and I am very well, but I find a great shrinking from the thought of work — I don’t think I shall do much until September. If you are in Burnley then there will be nothing else to do! I should like if possible to see you somehow at least once when I come home from walking with Sanger — but if it is impossible I must make the best of it.

My Dearest Dearest Love I do love you my Soul — Life is very difficult and very tragic and I often wonder why we all go on enduring it — but except when my courage fails I know my love for you is unalterable. If I could hold you in my arms now and kiss youra dear dear eyes all sorrow would be forgotten and the moment would be worth a lifetime. Goodnight my Star.

Your
B

Sunday

Enclosed came this morning. It is the long-lost Paris letter. I am glad to have it but it was not so nice as a fresh one would have been, which I thought it was at first.

All well. Post going.

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  [document] Document 000827. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

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  [envelope] A circled “827”. The Lady Ottoline Morrell | 44 Bedford Square | W.C. Pmk: ? | 8 30 M | JY 15 | 13

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  If I … kiss your lightly scored out in pencil