BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 20 JAN. 1919
BRACERS 19417. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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The Manor House
Garsington
Oxford1^, 2
20.1.19

My Darling

Owing to its being Monday there is no letter from you today — the only way to make one arrive Monday is to post in the special box inside P.O. — There is no second post now-a-days —

Hayward’s Heath3 is the only place with a late train, and that only on Weds. and Sats. If it is weather like this, I would rather be at Bury Str.4 if you could have me — the country is dreary and wet and cold — Let me know what day you expect me, where, and whether for 2 nights or 3. I don’t care what we do so long as I am with you, Dearest Cherub — 3 nights I can manage — O.5 is going to her brother6 in Westmoreland for a week, and Philip7 is going to Torquay —

I have sent photo to Sassoon,8 and O. has kept one of the others. Do you want the 3 remaining ones returned?

My heart’s Life I long for you.

Your
B —

• 1

  [document] Document 200407.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 34 Russell Chambers | Bury Street | LONDON W.C.1. Pmk. GARSINGTON | 20 JA | 19 | OXFORD

• 3

  Hayward’s Heath In West Sussex.

• 4

  Bury Str. BR’s flat was located there in Russell Chambers; Colette had been renting it since just before BR got out of Brixton Prison.

• 5

  O. Lady Ottoline Morrell, née Cavendish-Bentinck (1873–1938). For information on her see BRACERS 19077, n.5.

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  her brother Lord Henry Bentinck (1863–1931); a liberal-minded Conservative M.P. He shared Ottoline’s interest in art.

• 7

  Philip Philip Edward Morrell (1870–1943), a Liberal Member of Parliament, and Ottoline’s husband.

• 8

  photo to Sassoon BR had sent a photograph of himself, provided by Colette, to Sassoon. For further information on Sassoon, see BRACERS 19182, n.12.