BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [18 DEC. 1918]
BRACERS 19404. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Cottage Hotel
Lynton. R.S.O.
North Devon.1^, 2
Wednesday3

My Darling

It was lovely to get your little line of Monday evening this morning. I keep wondering how you are getting on — This place is wonderfully beautiful. One sees from one’s bedroom window a great expanse of sea, the rocky headlands on the way to Porlock, the steep woods of the Lynn valley, and the coast of Wales. The sound of the sea never stops, and every now and then the cry of the sea-birds comes floating up. The day was stormy, but towards sunset it cleared in the west and grew inconceivably beautiful: the sea was a dark dark purple, almost black — If you come Saturday you will be just in time for the moon. The hotel is comfortable, the people kind; only two other visitors, of a harmless description.

Wire as soon as you know whether you can come Saturday.

Thank you for your darling little letter, my Cherub — All love —

B.

2 letters forwarded to Bury Str.4

I shan’t write again if you come Saturday.

• 1

  [document] Document 200394.

• 2

  [envelope] Miss O’Niel | 20 Endsleigh Gardens | LONDON N.W. Pmk. illegible.

• 3

  [date] Colette wrote “19 Dec. 1918” on the envelope. In 1918 Wednesday fell on the 18th.

• 4

  Bury Str. BR’s flat where Colette had been living since shortly before BR came out of prison in September. She also went to her mother’s for awhile. Because of their relationship problems he was living in various places — his brother’s homes, Garsington, the Studio and with Clifford Allen in Abinger.