BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [8 DEC. 1919]
BRACERS 19593. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

Hotel Twee Steden. 
(deux Villes)1^, 2^, 3
Monday4

My Beloved

I am hoping to find a letter from you at the P.O. when I go out — but Xmas presents may have kept you too busy. Darling I keep thinking what a wonderful time we will have at Lynton5 — all the dear beautiful places where we have been together, engraved for ever in my mind by the happiness or pain that I have felt there. Miss Black6 is here — but that doesn’t affect my feeling about Lynton — Wittgenstein7 has not come yet.

My Heart’s Life, I love you, I love you — Not long now till Lynton —

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200583.

• 2

  [envelope] The envelope’s stamp has been torn off with part of Colette’s name. What remains is: The Lady Constance Mal | 6 Mechlenburgh Squar | London W.C1 | England

• 3

  Hotel Twee Steden. | (deux Villes) BR had moved from the Hotel Bellevue, which was “too grand” (BRACERS 19591) to this new hotel where he had honeymooned with his wife Alys. He gives its name in both Dutch and French; it translates as “two towns”.

• 4

  [date] Monday fell on Dec. 8 in 1919.

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  Lynton They were going to spend the Christmas season there with Clifford Allen as they had the previous year.

• 6

  Miss Black Dora Black (1894–1986). She and BR were married from 1921 until 1935. For more information on her, see BRACERS 19506, n.3.

• 7

  Wittgenstein Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), eminent philosopher and former student of BR’s.