BRACERS Record Detail for 19277

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
596
Document no.
200264
Box no.
6.65
Source if not BR
Malleson, Constance
Recipient(s)
Malleson, Constance
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1918/01/16
Form of letter
ALS
Pieces
1E
BR's address code (if sender)
LON
Notes and topics

"My Beloved—Your letter this morning renews life in me—all this time I have been feeling all would be well if I could walk with you along the cliffs by the sea—my spirit must have reached you somehow on our walk."

Transcription

BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 16 JAN. 1918
BRACERS 19277. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<London>
16.1.181 , 2

My Beloved

Your letter this morning3 renews life in me — All this time I have been feeling all would be well if I could walk with you along the cliffs by the sea — my spirit must have reached you somehow on your walk4 —

All will come right if the prayer in you is kept alive, and the grasping possessiveness in me is kept under. The two go together. I am useless to you when my own soul is torn with fierce angry passions; and I shan’t feel them if what I love in you is not being choked and killed — or seeming to me to be.

I had quite made up my mind that we must part; I came to that yesterday. If left me feeling strangely lifeless. Your letter changes everything. Bless you for it.

B.

Notes

  • 1

    [document] Document 200264.

  • 2

    [envelope] Miss Colette O’Niel | Post Office | Ilfracombe. Pmk: LONDON. W.C | 1.15 PM | 16 JAN 18

  • 3

    Your letter this morning Her letter of 14 January 1918 (BRACERS 113118).

  • 4

    your walk Colette walked from Falmouth along the cliffs past Swanpool, Pennance Point, to beyond Maenporth.

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
19277
Record created
Jan 22, 1991
Record last modified
Nov 22, 2024
Created/last modified by
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