BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [2 MAR. 1917]
BRACERS 19128. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Friday1^, 2^, 3

My Darling

I am worried by having no news of you — I am afraid you must be worse.4 Don’t trouble to write but get Miles5 to give me news of you, if you are not better. I left a letter for you at the Attic6 Monday — I hope it reached you — nothing in it.

A grand meeting at Leicester7 — 600 at least — a great ovation.

I long for news of you.

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200101.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 44 Great Cumberland Place | W. Pmk: LONDON. W | 5.15 PM | 2 MAR 17B

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  [date] The date is taken from the postmark.

• 4

  afraid you must be worse On 28 February (BRACERS 112995) Colette had written: “It is most absurd of me to have become ill, so collapsed that I’m being nursed”. She was at her mother’s home, 44 Great Cumberland Place.

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  Miles Miles Malleson, Colette’s husband. For information on him, see BRACERS 19046, n.4.

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  the Attic 43 Bernard Street, where she lived with Miles.

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  grand meeting at Leicester  Under the auspices of the National Council for Civil Liberties, on 28 February BR lectured on “Pitfalls in Socialism”. See “Pitfalls in Socialism; Hon. Bertrand Russell’s Homily”, Leicester Mail, 1 March 1917, p. 3. Councillor A. Hill presided.