BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 19 MAY 1919
BRACERS 19476. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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70, Overstrand Mansions,
Prince of Wales Road,
Battersea, S.W.1 ^, 2
19 May 1919.

My Darling Love

Thank you for your dear little letter3 this morning. I am feeling very full of love to you, and very much alive. There was a terrible deep pain in the temporary parting, but as the parting prevented friction, it was the sort of pain that makes one alive. I love you, my beautiful, my lovely Treasure — my thoughts are never away from you for one moment.

You are most wise to want to work on your book at Lulworth4 and I won’t interfere. But as I need shorter hours, and companionship when I am not working (otherwise I get tired out), I have asked Allen5 to come too for August, and he probably will. He met last night [but tell no one yet] a young woman at the Chinese Restaurant who fascinated him: a German lady Doctor, tired of work, and in search of adventure like himself — It looks as if it would be what he wants. How this will affect his plans I don’t know — If she turns out nice, would you mind her at Lulworth? It might be a kindness to him.

Do tell me about Paris and all your plans.6 I send you all my heart, Beloved, and all the passionate devotion of a burning spirit.

B.

Notes

• 1

  [document] Document 200464.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 34 Russell Chambers | Bury Street | W.C.1. Pmk: BATTERSEA S.W.11 | 45 M | 19 MAY 19

• 3

  dear little letter Not extant.

• 4

  to work on your book at Lulworth Presumably her novel that was first mentioned in his letter of 19 April (BRACERS 19468).

• 5

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

• 6

  Paris and all your plans Colette’s  mother, Priscilla, was taking her there for a much needed holiday (BRACERS 19481). Nothing more is known as Colette’s letters are not extant for this period.