BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [24 JUNE 1917]
BRACERS 19176. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

Shere,
The White
Horse
Sunday night
23 June 19171^, 2

My dearest Darling

Thank you for your dear dear letter3 yesterday morning. It has been a great joy.

My loved one, I long to be with you for long times — in August? I can then if you can. But I love the times in my flat,4 though they are short — I am counting the moments till Tuesday.

2 days walking5 have set me up completely — I feel equal to everything. My pupils6 don’t interest me much — but I like them — We lunched with Bob Trevelyan7 today which I enjoyed mildly.

I wonder what will come of your offer of work8 — I hated getting so overwhelmed on Friday when you were with me — it was Mrs H’s news9 all of a sudden, needing instant decisions and thought.

My dearest loved one, I don’t ever feel I am really alive away from you — I love you continually more and more, without limit. You fill my life with real deep happiness. Goodnight my heart’s love.

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200155.

• 2

  [date] Sunday night was actually 24 June.

• 3

  your dear dear letter Her letter of 22 June 1917 (BRACERS 113034).

• 4

  I love the times in my flat Helen Dudley was a tenant at his Bury Street flat; she had returned in February 1917 after a brief absence. She must have been away again, although nominally still the tenant. BR began using the flat again in mid-June (BRACERS 19174).

• 5

  2 days walking He had been walking in the country with Jean Nicod, one of his logic students (to Colette, 18 June 1917, BRACERS 113033).

• 6

  My pupils During the autumn of 1916, four students began to meet weekly with BR at Gordon Square, the home of his brother Frank, to study Principia Mathematica. They were Dorothy Wrinch, Jean Nicod, Victor F. Lenzen, and Wallace Armstrong, according to Lenzen (cited in BRACERS 19053, n.4). An annotation to Letter no. 41 (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, but he did not join it until 1917.

• 7

  Bob Trevelyan Robert Calverley Trevelyan (1872–1951), poet and translator, a friend of BR’s from their student days at Trinity College. He and his wife, Elizabeth, lived at the Shiffolds, Holmbury St. Mary in Surrey.

• 8

  your offer of work In her letter of 22 June (BRACERS 113034), she wrote she had heard “rumours of a job, but everything still in the air.”

• 9

  Mrs H’s news “Mrs. H” was Margaret Hobhouse whose son Stephen had been court martialled for his refusal to serve in the war. BR was ghost-writing for her “I Appeal unto Caesar” (B&R B7; 52 in Papers 12). It is not known what her news was.