BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [11 SEPT. 1919]
BRACERS 19557. 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 Darling Love

I hope soon I shall hear how Young Heaven4 has gone off — I do hope it has been a great success. I enclose £2.2.0 for “The End”5 — the money came by return, without any remarks — Would you like Austin Harrison6 to go on paying me, or to know who you are? Editors are accustomed to secrets and he could be relied upon — but I enjoy being your agent, and it would give me more pleasure to go on pretending to be you.

The weather is glorious — I miss you terribly when moonlight warm nights come, with a caressing wind and an infinite shining sea. The 24th we meet — that will be 3 years since the Portman Rooms,7 exactly. I do hope you will be able to come here, but if not I would come to you, anywhere in the British Isles. Goodbye Beloved — I love you with all my being, unalterably —

B

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  [document] Document 200544.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. Pmk: WEST LULWORTH | 11 SP | 19

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

• 4

  Young Heaven A play written by her husband, Miles Malleson.

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  “The End” The title of her short story published in The English Review, 29 (Sept. 1919): 235–8, using the pseudonym Christine Harte.

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

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  Portman Rooms They met for the third time at a London Division meeting of the No-Conscription Fellowship in the Portman Rooms, had supper together at Canuto’s and then went to her flat in Bernard Street where their love affair began in the early morning hours of 24 September 1916.