BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [30 JAN. 1920]
BRACERS 19609. 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
Friday3

Beloved

Your letter4 from Kettering5 has come — it didn’t strike me as at all “queer” under the circumstances. I am glad you have got your job6 — I am sure it will be very very good for you. I will come and visit you for week-ends whenever you like — I wonder what the Cat and Fiddle has become7 — you told me I think, but I forgot —

Great haste as I am off to Camb.8 Back to lunch tomorrow —

All my heart, my loved one —

B

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  [document] Document 200602.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | W.C.1. Pmk: BATTERSEA S.W.11 | 4.30 PM | 30 JAN 20

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

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  Your letter Colette’s letter postmarked 29 January 1920 (BRACERS 113188).

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  from Kettering A town in Northhamptonshire. She was there with the touring company she had recently joined.

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  your job Colette had secured a job with a touring theatre company headed by Frank Forbes Robertson. For further information, see BRACERS 19599, n.6.

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  wonder what the Cat and Fiddle has become It was still in business in 2012 as a pub and restaurant run by Robinsons; there were no longer any overnight accommodations. It was built in 1823; in 1903 the Cat section had seven stables. It was closed from 2015 to 2020. See S. Turcon, “Then and Now: Bertie and Colette’s Escapes to the Peak District and Welsh Borderlands”, Russell, 34 (2014): 117–30.

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  Camb Cambridge.