BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [14 JULY 1919]
BRACERS 19505. 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^, 3
In taxi

Beloved, Heart’s Comrade,4 all my soul is yours. I love you more than ever before — I long for you to have work. I will be gentle and loving henceforth, if heaven will let me. Whatever I do will be done so as to keep me kind and keep away from the achea for you that makes me horrid. It is horribleb about your job.5 You have been unspeakably dear and loving — All blessings on your head — Come Saturday to Tuesday at least. I want you in my arms Beloved — Blessings on your dear head

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200493.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | W.C.1. Pmk: LONDON | 1.15 PM | 14 JUL | 19E

• 3

  [date] Colette wrote “14 July (No I) 1919” on the envelope. She was numbering a series of BR’s letters.

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  Heart’s Comrade For the use of this term, see BRACERS 19145, n.12.

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  your job Since Colette’s correspondence is not extant for this time period, it is not known what happened with regard to her work.

Textual Notes

• a

  ache The word appears to be “ach.”, but only “ache” fits the sense.

• b

  horrible Underlined six times in a continuous stroke.