BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [15 MAY 1917]
BRACERS 19165. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<London>

Just one line my Darling1^, 2 — in great haste. Sorry your thoughts have been troubled — I don’t know any reason why they should be.

Am going to Willesden tonight to speak — Could see you tea and early dinner if it suited you. If so please telephone. Am going to office now, back to lunch 1.30 — Free Thurs. evening, no other evening — but day-time almost any afternoon.

C.A.3 was wonderful — an inspiration and a joy — He was to be given his 1st. order yesterday afternoon so his liberty was brief. I could hardly bear to think of him snatched away so quickly from the sun and the spring and the comradeship of friends — but he is amazingly brave. Heaven bless and preserve him.

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200141.

• 2

  [date] Colette wrote “15 or 16 May” on the letter. Also dated from letter 1,508 to Ottoline Morrell, which mentions the speech in Willesden.

• 3

  C.A. (Reginald) Clifford Allen (1889–1939). For further information on him, see BRACERS 19046, n.7.