BRACERS Record Detail for 19409
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"Sat. My Darling—I found your dear letter when I got home today—1000 thanks for it and the £10."
This letter was previously dated the 15th. The new assigned date comes from references to Clifford Allen and Garsington recorded in BR's pocket diary.
BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [DEC. 1917]
BRACERS 19409. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell
My Darling
I found your dear letter when I got home today — 1000 thanks for it and the £10.
Yes, Monday supper — Perhaps you would ring me up when you get home, and I will come to fetch you — I suppose it won’t be till about 10?
Garsington3 went off placidly — Brett,4 Gertler5 and Huxley6 were there — I came away this morning.
I had a long fruitful talk with C.A. Thursday.7 He is getting the hang of things very fast.
The German peace offer through the Russians8 must bring peace nearer. It is astonishingly good in view of their military situation. I am afraid it will be rejected; but perhaps not quite definitively. Goodbye my Darling.
B
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[document] Document 200400.
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[date] This letter and three others, documents 200397–400 were physically separated from the remainder of letters written in December 1917 (documents 200240–249). They are all written on the same pale blue paper in ink. All of them are undated and two of them have been assigned the date of December 1917.
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Garsington Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the county home of Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell.
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Brett Dorothy Eugenie Brett (1883–1977), painter, known as Brett.
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Gertler Mark Gertler (1891–1939), painter.
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Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894–1963), writer.
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long fruitful talk with C.A. Thursday (Reginald) Clifford Allen (1889–1939). He had been released from prison because of his poor health and was staying in a nursing home at 10 Rosslyn Hill. This meeting is recorded in BR’s pocket diary, Thursday, 27 December. For information on Allen, see BRACERS 19046, n.7. It is unknown what “things” he was “getting the hang of”.
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German peace offer through the Russians This peace offer, made in September, was under discussion in December after its existence was made public. It immediately became the topic of BR’s article in The Tribunal, no. 90 (3 Jan. 1918): 1, for which he would soon be prosecuted.
