BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [18 JAN. 1918]
BRACERS 19280. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<London>
Friday1^, 2^, 3

My Beloved

Your telegram4 last night gave me the greatest happiness.

Yes, the week-end at the Studio.5 And if it is not pouring, Sunday in the country. It is dreadful that you are “torn and bleeding”.6 There is so much to hear and to say — I am free any time Sat. I will leave everything till we meet — Bless you, my Darling. My love surrounds you.

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200267.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | W.C.1. Pmk: LONDON W.C | 1.15 PM | 18 JAN 18

• 3

  [date] Colette wrote “Friday 18 Jan 1918” on the envelope.

• 4

  Your telegram Not extant.

• 5

  the Studio The place BR and Colette rented on the ground floor at 5 Fitzroy Street, Soho. For further information on it, see BRACERS 19247, n.4.

• 6

  “torn and bleeding” From Colette’s letter of 14 January 1918: “I’m stunted, torn, bleeding: I need and have to grow” (BRACERS 113118). The literary version of this letter reads: “I am all stunted, and torn about, and bleeding” (BRACERS 99836). The original letter is not extant.