BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [20 SEPT. 1919]
BRACERS 19564. 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

My Darling Love

I am sorry you are kept nervy by uncertainty about work — I do hope you will get it — Could you telegraph to me Monday not later than 4.30 deciding whether you will come Wed. or not? If you can’t be sure of coming by that time, I think we had better decide to meet in London, as there are difficulties here about food etc. if one waits till the last minute, and the uncertainty is worrying. Please also phone to Allen4 as soon as you decide, as he will want to know when I am coming, and whether to forward letters — It will be a great disappointment if you can’t come here, but we can be very happy in my flat.5 You were going to engage a char6 for it but I don’t believe you have done so. Will you try to find one at once? She ought to come an hour every day, not earlier than 12 o’clock — My work is going splendidly — luckily, as I have a lot to do to get my lectures7 in order. Excuse this dull letter about plans — Dearest Darling, I long for the moment when we shall be together — wonderful times we have had keep coming into my mind so vividly that I forget where I am and what I am doing. All my heart, Beloved.

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200551.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. Pmk: WEST LULWORTH | 20 SP | 19

• 3

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

• 4

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

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  my flat 34 Russell Chambers, Bury Street (later renamed Bury Place), London WC1.

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  a char A cleaning lady. For several years BR had engaged a Mrs. Saich. But with BR living with Allen in Battersea, spending the entire summer in Lulworth, and Colette moving out of Russell Chambers, a char had not been needed.

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  my lectures “The Analysis of Mind”, a set of sixteen lectures which he gave at both Dr. Williams’ Library and Morley College in London from October to February 1920. See Appendix III.2 in Papers 9.