BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [18 AUG. 1919]
BRACERS 19533. 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
At P.O. Monday3

Beloved

2 letters4 from you this afternoon — 1000 thanks for the lovely scent for the hankies — I will arrive Sat.

Waterloo 6.30

with C.A.5 Will you meet me?6

I am so troubled by your worries — Do tell me about them. What has happened to Priscilla?7 And what are the other worries? Doa tell me —

Haste — All my love my blessed one — and all my sympathy — I long for Saturday.

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200520.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. Pmk: LULWORTH | 18 AU | 19

• 3

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

• 4

  2 letters Not extant.

• 5

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

• 6

  Will you meet me? Several letters and telegrams follow as to whether BR should travel to London on Friday or Saturday and on which train. In the end, she met him on the Saturday 1.10 train.

• 7

  Priscilla Priscilla, Lady Annesley (1870–1941), second wife of Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl of Annesley (1831–1908). Colette describes her mother as “among the most beautiful women of her day” with a love of bright colours and walking (After Ten Years [London: J. Cape, 1931], pp. 12–14).

Textual Notes

• a

  Do Underlined five times.