BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [9 AUG. 1919]
BRACERS 19523. 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
Saturday3

Beloved

No letter from you this morning — I imagine you just missed the post and there will be one this afternoon. I do wish you were here4 these wonderful days — it has been beyond belief beautiful, especially at night — C.A.5 and I go a walk after dinner, generally to the tumulus hill.

Bob Trevy6 comes Aug. 25 — if I am to come it must be before that, or after the Trojan Women.7 I rather feel as if you had too much to do to manage me too?

I am wearing one of your new ties — they are a great joy —

Miss Budden (Littlewood’s cousin) goes today — she is a good soul, but dull. On the other hand Mrs Streatfeild8 is dull without being a good soul —

Goodbye Beloved — all my heart is with you — my thoughts are never absent from you —

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200510.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | c/o Chas. Radcliffe Esq | 19 Newport Road | Cardiff. Pmk: WOOL | 9 AU | 19

• 3

  [date] The date is taken from the envelope’s postmark.

• 4

  here At Newlands Farm in West Lulworth. BR was renting it for the summer with Littlewood.

• 5

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

• 6

  Bob Trevy Robert Calverley Trevelyan (1872–1951), poet and translator, a friend of BR’s from Trinity College.

• 7

  Trojan Women Colette played Helen at Oxford on 5 September 1919. For a list of other performers, see BRACERS 19521, n.11.

• 8

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