BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [17 DEC. 1917]
BRACERS 19408. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<London>
Monday1^, 2

My loved one

I have been wondering how things have gone with you — I was verya happy with you on Saturday, and I am longing for tomorrow.

I have not heard from Miles3 as to meeting tonight so I suppose he doesn’t want to, or you changed your mind — I tried to ring him up this morning but he was already gone.

Yesterday I went a walk with Littlewood4 and we got caught in a snowstorm,5 but I liked it all the same.

I am very busy.

Let me know where and when we meet tomorrow. I should suggest my calling for you at 6.45 if that suits you.

Goodbye my Darling. My thoughts are with you every moment.

B

Your dear letter just come — I enclose £5 which I had forgotten. Isola Bella6 tomorrow, anytime you suggest —

My deepest love, Beloved

• 1

  [document] Document 200399.

• 2

  [date] The date has been assigned because of the snowstorm mention.

• 3

  Miles Miles Malleson (1888–1969), Colette’s husband. For information on him, see BRACERS 19046, n.4.

• 4

  Littlewood John Edensor Littlewood (1885–1977), mathematician. He and BR shared a farmhouse near Lulworth during the summer of 1919. Littlewood had two children, Philip and Ann Streatfeild, with the wife of Dr. Raymond Streatfeild.

• 5

  caught in a snowstorm Weekend storms were reported in The Times, 17 Dec. 1917, p. 5.

• 6

  Isola Bella Possibly the Italian restaurant of that name at 15 Frith Street in Soho. It was open in 1939 owned by Pierino Micotti.

Textual Notes

• a

  very Underlined five times in a continuous stroke.