BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [17 AUG. 1917]
BRACERS 19191. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

In the train.1^, 2^, 3^, 4
Friday —

My Beloved

What can I find to say that will be any way worthy? It has been a time in heaven5 — a time of wonder and beauty and joy — I bless you every moment for it, my Darling. I feel so intimate, so near you — so full of this warmth and life of you — I came away full of despair and now I am filled with new hope.

I love your dear eyes when they shine — they grow wonderful then — And I love all your ways — and above all I love your love — It is the most wonderful love I can imagine — I shall miss you my dear one every moment, but most of all when I go to bed — it has been such an unspeakable happiness falling asleep with you beside me. I hope your journey will go off all right — and I hope Miles6 will be as happy with you as will make up to me for the loss of these days — And when you come home you must make a great struggle and get work — and some day there will be peace and we shall have a long long time of happiness — Goodbye for the present my dearest Darling — I send you a thousand thousand kisses — enough to break the postman’s back.

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200171.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | Queensberry Arms | Annan | Dumfrieshire | Scotland. No stamps remain (?).

• 3

  [date] Colette wrote “17 August 1917” on the envelope.

• 4

  In the train This letter was posted in Banbury and addressed to Colette in Scotland.

• 5

  a time in heaven They stayed at the Norton Arms in Knighton on Sunday, 29 July; at the Feathers Inn in Ludlow, Shropshire, the next night; and the remainder of their vacation near Ashford Carbonel, in a house, The Avenue, owned by Mrs. Agnes Woodhouse. They nicknamed the house  “Boismaison”.

• 6

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