BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [29 JULY 1919]
BRACERS 19511. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<West Lulworth>
<letterhead>
70, Overstrand Mansions,
Prince of Wales Road,
Battersea, S.W.1^, 2
Tuesday3

Beloved

One little word of love to bring you kisses when you wake tomorrow and to tell you that my heart is with you more fully and deeply than ever before — Darling, your love is a wonderful and precious gift, the most wonderful that can ever come to me — It has been a time of unbelievable beauty4 — and I feel so near to you in spirit that it seems hardly possible for two human beings to be nearer. My whole soul goes out to you in love and deep happiness. Goodbye Beloved, Heart’s Comrade.5

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200499.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. Pmk: WEST LULWORTH | 29 JY | 19

• 3

  [date] Colette wrote“29 July 1919” on the envelope.

• 4

  a time of unbelievable beauty Colette had been visiting BR at Newlands Farm near Lulworth, which he and J.E. Littlewood were renting for the summer.

• 5

  Heart’s Comrade For information on this term, see BRACERS 19145, n.12.