BRACERS Record Detail for 19650
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From Christina. Litvinov's wire raised difficulties about entering Russia.
BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 30 APR. 1920
BRACERS 19650. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell
My Beloved
1000 thanks for your wire4 which I found here this morning — C.A. & Co. arrive tonight5 — Bergen and neighbourhood seemed to me divinely beautiful — I had a wonderful walk there in the sunset, and the railway journey too was exquisite — I have a wire from Litvinov6 raising difficulties but I don’t suppose they will be insuperable. I shall know tomorrow or next day. It is possible I may have to return, but not likely — Goodbye Beloved — My thoughts are with you every moment — I love you with all my being.
B
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[document] Document 200643.
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[envelopes] [small envelope] Miss Colette O’Niel | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1 | England [regular-size envelope] Miss Colette O’Niel | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. | England. Pmk: KRISTIANA | 30 N. 20. 5–11E | Bp. The envelope was readdressed c/o Frank Forbes Robertson’s | Mice and Men Co. | New Brighton. The verso has an address Hotel Kosmopolit Kristiania and a second postmark: LONDON W.C.1 | 3.30 PM | MAY 4 20. [enclosures:] Two black and white postcards of mountains in Norway.
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Xtiania Kristiana (later Oslo), Norway.
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your wire Not extant.
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C.A. & Co. arrive tonight In his previous letter (BRACERS 19649), written from Bergen, Norway, BR told Colette that he was not with Clifford Allen and the others but does not say why. For information on Allen, see BRACERS 19046, n.7.
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Litvinov raising difficulties Maxim Litvinov (1876–1951). BR had attended at least one meeting that Litvinov spoke at, on 18 February 1918 in London, when he was a Soviet government representative in Britain. Later in the year Litvinov would be arrested by the British Government and ended up in Brixton Prison at the same time that BR was there. Although they saw one another there they were not able to communicate. In 1920 Litvinov was the Deputy Commissar at Foreign Affairs. There was a slight delay in getting BR a visa to enter Russia from Stockholm; BR also wrote to Colette on 6 May 1920 (BRACERS 19652) that initially the delay was caused by the boat needing repairs.
