BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [17 SEPT. 1919]
BRACERS 19561. 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
Wed.3

My Beloved

I am longing for you so much — I am hungry for your arms — I do wish we could be together now — but it is impossible — Dear Love, think of me having you in mind always, feeling your arms round me, thinking of you when I hear the sound of the sea, and when the night-wind blows, and when the owls hoot — they bring back the owl in the Avenue4 at Ashford — the times we have had together keep coming before me in vivid images — and I feel in imagination the strange holy feeling I have when I touch you — Without you my soul is lonely — no one else can speak to the deep sensitive passion that is the core of my life — Beloved in another week I shall see your eyes and feel your arms about me and stroke your hair and the world will be filled with a deep awe — Goodbye my heart’s life.

B

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  [document] Document 200548.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. Pmk: WEST LULWORTH | 17 SP | 19

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

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  the Avenue Colette and BR vacationed in a house named The Avenue in 1917 and 1918. For information about it, see BRACERS 19217, n.4.