BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [1 SEPT. 1919]
BRACERS 19546. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<West Lulworth>
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70, Overstrand Mansions,
Prince of Wales Road,
Battersea, S.W.1^, 2
Monday3

My Beloved

Your little letter yesterday morning was so dear — it was a very great joy to get — And at the P.O. I found the English Review with your story4 in it — you are lucky to get published at once — it shows Harrison5 thought well of the story. I do hope you will go on with writing — you have a very real gift for it. — Today C.A.6 went off early in the morning, Bob7 goes this afternoon and the Nicods8 and Miss Wrinch9 arrive —

My heart’s Life, I love you beyond all words — I count the days till we can be together again — I long to begin being together at the Flat10 — I feel so infinitely near to you and one with you — I no longer want to make claims, because I feel too near to you for that to be possible —

Bless you, my Heart’s Comrade11 —

B

I am sending a bundle of Athenaeums.  If you don’t want them, let Allen have them.

• 1

  [document] Document 200533.

• 2

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

• 3

  [date] The date is taken from the telegram, BRACERS 19545.

• 4

  your story Her short story “The End” using the pseudonym Christine Harte had been published in The English Review 29 (Sept. 1919): 235–8.

• 5

  Harrison Austin Frederic Harrison (1873–1928), journalist and editor. He became editor of the English Review in 1909, purchased it in 1915, and sold it in 1923.

• 6

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

• 7

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

• 8

  the Nicods Jean Nicod (1893–1924), mathematician and logician, and his wife, Thérèse. Nicod had been one of BR’s logic pupils in the autumn of 1916.

• 9

  Miss Wrinch Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894–1976), mathematician and (later) theoretical biologist.

• 10

  at the Flat Presumably 34 Russell Chambers, Bury Street (later renamed Bury Place), London WC1.

• 11

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