BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 11 NOV. 1919
BRACERS 19579. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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70, Overstrand Mansions,
Prince of Wales Road,
Battersea, S.W.1^, 2
11.11.19

My dearest Darling

Thank you for your lovely little line — it was a joy to see your handwriting once more — I shall bring C.A.3 to Shakuntala4 if he can possibly spare the time, but he is fearfully busy with Herald affairs..5 — I had a German, Dr. Guthmann,6 to tea Sunday — one of the Conference7 people — I enjoyed seeing him. I wish I could get work abroad for Labour — I hanker for the Continent and dread Cambridge8 —

Good luck to you on Friday — Shall I ever see you again? I love you my dear one with all my heart and soul —

B

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  [document] Document 200569.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | W.C.1. Pmk: BATTERSEA S.W. | 4.30 PM | 11 NOV 19

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

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  ShakuntalaA play by Kalidasa at the Winter Garden London, Friday afternoons, 14 and 21 November 1919, staged by Lewis Casson. Colette had the role of Anasurya.

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  Herald affairs The newspaper, The Daily Herald, which was run and mainly financed by the socialist politician, George Lansbury. Allen became a director of the paper in 1925.

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  Dr. Guthmann Presumably Bernhard Guttmann (1869–1959), the former London correspondent for Frankfurter Zeitung.

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  Conference The conference held by the Fight the Famine Council chaired by Lord Parmoor at the Caxton Hall in London, 4–6 November 1919. Delegates were mainly British with some Europeans, Americans and Japanese. Both Germans and Austrians attended. The conference grappled with the problems of post-war Europe. Reports of the proceedings were published in The Times. BR attended the opening session on 4 November (pocket diary note).

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  dread Cambridge BR was anticipating being reinstated in his Trinity position. A memorial signed by 27 fellows of the college was considered at the college council’s meeting of 28 November 1919. Reinstatement was to take place on 1 July 1920 (G.H. Hardy, Bertrand Russell and Trinity [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1942], pp. 48–9).