BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [5 OCT. 1916?]
BRACERS 19053. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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57 Gordon Square
W.C.1
Thursday evg.2

My Darling Loved One —

I shall never never forget the wonder and beauty of last night with the moon and the wind and the silence — it was quite enchanted and magical. Today I have been rushed from pillar to post all day — speaking in the morning,3 my pupils4 (whom I put off) in the afternoon, then a tiresome cousin5 who announced at the start “I am a pacifist but I want to beat the Germans thoroughly first” — now I have to spend the evening with Miss M. and Fenner.6 I long for time to let the joy of you soak through and through and fill me — but business and fuss keeps intervening. Oh dear — I shall be glad of the long train journeys, when I can think of you my dear one. You were divine last night — your love is great like the sea — I feel so unworthy — I don’t deserve it — but I will try to. Goodnight my Beloved

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200018. There is also a typed copy, document 200112, numbered “11”, which has been crossed out with “12” written above it.

• 2

  [date] Colette wrote “5 Oct. 1916” on the letter.

• 3

  speaking in the morning The occasion is unknown.

• 4

  my pupils During the autumn of 1916, four students met weekly with BR at Gordon Square to study Principia Mathematica. They were Dorothy Wrinch, Jean Nicod, Victor Lenzen, and Wallace Edwin Armstrong, according to Victor Lenzen, “Bertrand Russell at Harvard, 1914” (1971). An annotation to Letter no. 41 (document 104579AO, BRACERS 112973) in the typescript “Letters to Bertrand Russell from Constance Malleson, 1916–1969”, in RA, indicates that Raphael Demos was also part of the group.

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  tiresome cousin This cousin has not been identified — BR had numerous cousins.

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  Miss M. and Fenner For information on Marshall, see BRACERS 19043, n.5. Archibald Fenner Brockway (1888–1988), peace activist, cofounder with Clifford Allen of the No-Conscription Fellowship.