BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [21 MAR. 1919]
BRACERS 19460. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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The Manor House
Garsington
Oxford1^, 2
Friday3

My Darling

It is good that you are going to act,4 but disappointing about the week-end. Perhaps you can come earlier in the week? Santayana5 comes this afternoon so I can’t write then. Never mind if you can’t come — we will hope for Easter6 — but it will be sad all the same.

I must go to lunch as the bell as rung. All my love, my Dearest. My thoughts are with you every moment.

B.

<on envelope:> On the back of the envelope BR wrote in ink: “Thank you very much for the newspaper which interested me and seemed excellent”. Also written sideways in pencil: “So sorry missed yesterdays post could manage 27–31”. 

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  [document] Document 200448.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 34 Russell Chambers | Bury Street | W.C.1. | The envelope is not franked.

• 3

  [date] The date is assumed based on his location and the telegram of 22 March (BRACERS 19461).

• 4

  going to act Presumably BR is referring to Colette’s performances in John Masefield’s The Faithful which was put on by the Stage Society on Sunday 13 April 1919 with a repeat performance on Tuesday 15 April at the King’s Hall. She had a small role as a woman of Kira’s Palace while Miles played Shoda (“Miss Keane’s ‘Juliet’; “New London Productions”, The Times, 7 April 1919, p. 16; “A Japanese Curio”, The Times, 16 April 1919, p. 15).

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  Santayana George Santayana (1863–1952), Spanish-born American philosopher. BR’s brother Frank first met Santayana during a trip to the United States in 1885. BR both admired and disagreed with Santayana over the years.

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  Easter In 1919 Easter was on 20 April.