BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 10 MAR. 1919
BRACERS 19450. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Garsington Manor
Oxford1^, 2
10.3.19.

My Darling

Yes, I can come Sat. morning at 12.30 very well, unless C.A.3 wants me then. If he can’t see me in Sat. morning, better Monday, so that we can have Sunday free for the country. I wired to Gladys4 to say if possible not Sunday, or Sat. afternoon. Yes, let’s go to Guilford Sunday — Merrow Down5 and Gomshall. If it is fine it will be heavenly. I will come back here by the late train, starting about 6 on Monday — I will come and bring my luggage about 11.30 if you don’t mind — if you are busy it doesn’t matter, but unless C.A. wants me then I shall have nowhere to go. Murry6 left today — he is too pessimistic and passive for my taste — a disciple of Chehov. Gertler7 goes Thursday.

Dear Love I long to be with you again — it seems so long that I feel you will be quite a stranger and I shall be shy — I feel everything is to begin again from the start. Is it possible for us not to drift into being strangers? Such difference of occupations makes it difficult. But I love you, my Heart, and I want us to keep near each other — Goodbye Beloved. Post going.

B.

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  [document] Document 200438.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 34 Russell Chambers | Bury Str. | W.C.1. Pmk: GARSINGTON | MR 11 | 19 | OXFORD

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  C.A. (Reginald) Clifford Allen (1889–1939). For information on him, see BRACERS 19046, n.7.

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  Gladys Gladys W. Rinder (1882–1965). For information on her, see BRACERS 19044, n.5.

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  Merrow Down This was a favourite walk. For information about it, see BRACERS 19148, n.4.

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  Murry John Middleton Murry (1889–1957), writer, who married Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) in May 1918 after her divorce from her first husband. Murry worked in political intelligence in the War Office from 1916 to 1919. He went on to edit The Athenaeum from 1919 to 1921.

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  Gertler Mark Gertler (1891–1939), painter.