BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [7 AUG. 1919]
BRACERS 19520. 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
Thursday3

My Beloved

Thank you for your little line this morning — I am sorry your morning went to pieces but not surprised — only your writing will suffer, and it is good enough to deserve to be treated with respect. — I got your wire4 and have sent in to my Bank your cheque filled in for £54.10s, which was what it had come to with odds and ends —

Mrs. Streatfeild5 is making a dead set at Allen,6 but he is obdurate —

Last night was amazingly beautiful. After dinner C.A. and I went up the near hill (with the mound on top) — there was sunset one side, and moon on the sea the other — and a great wind from the ends of the earth — I did long for you, my Heart’s Life — But I felt you so near in spirit that the longing was not sharp and bitter — there was joy at the bottom of it — Goodbye my loved one — I am yours as I have never been before — it is a nearer and more intimate and deeper thing — All blessings on you; Beloved —

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200507.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. Pmk: WEST LULWORTH | 7 AU | 19

• 3

  [date] Colette wrote“7 Aug 1919” on the envelope.

• 4

  got your wire Stamped 6 August 1919: “please cash cheque when ever you like all love” (BRACERS 107485).

• 5

  Mrs Streatfeild The wife of Dr. Raymond Streatfeild, she had two children, Philip and Ann Streatfeild, with J.E. Littlewood.

• 6

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