BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [5 JULY 1917]
BRACERS 19180. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

My Beloved1^, 2^, 3

I have just found your dear letter4 and have only one moment to write. I love your plans5 — let us carry them out — The only thing is, I have to dine with Brett6 Sat. night, so I shall have to leave you alone for that time — I will come back as early as I can — It won’t interfere with Chesham7 — It is a pity. Tomorrow I shall be busy till after tea — let us meet at 6 at my flat8 — I am not sure I ought to come to Chesham Sat. as I shall not get through my work — I will come Sunday — but I have just promised to do a Herald article9 Sat. — Work is a curse.

No time — Goodnight my dearest Darling — I love you with all my being. I long10for tomorrow.

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200159.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | W.C. 1. Pmk: LONDON. W.C. | 8.15 PM | JUL 5 17B

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  [date] The date is taken from the postmark on the envelope.

• 4

  your dear letter Only the first page of her original letter of 5 July 1917 (BRACERS 116392) survives. Another version in “Letters to Bertrand Russell from Constance Malleson, 1916–1969” (BRACERS 113037) is much longer. The text that appears in the typescript does not match that of the original letter.

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  love your plans She suggests that they join her husband Miles and Edwin Greenwood (another actor) at their cottage in Bellingdon on Sunday (BRACERS 113037).

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  Brett Dorothy Eugenie Brett (1883–1977), painter, known as Brett.

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  Chesham The Mallesons’ cottage was near Chesham, Buckinghamshire.

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  my flat 34 Russell Chambers, Bury Street (later renamed Bury Place), London WC1. BR had regained access to it in mid-June.

• 9

  Herald article “The Fall of Bethamann-Hollweg”, The Herald, no. 905 (21 July 1917): 9 (B&R C17.42); 53 in Papers 14.

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  long The word “long” is underlined six times in a continuous stroke.