BRACERS Record Detail for 19674
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This is not a letter but a schedule of ports of call for the voyage to Peking on the S.S. Porthos. It contains the correct day of departure, 6 September, which is written over the crossed-out original day of departure of 18 August, presumably by Malleson, but it doesn't look like her hand. Russell probably sent it to her in mid-August. On August 10 she still doesn't know when he is leaving.
BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [AUG. 1920]
BRACERS 19674. 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
List of Dates (roughly)
Marseilles Sep. 6a
Port Said Sep. 10
Djibouti Sep. 14
Colombo Sep. 20
Singapore Sep. 25
Saigon Sep. 28
Hong Kong Oct. 3
Shanghai Oct. 7
Peking Oct. 14
SS. Porthos.
If you telegraph, address to Steamer.
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[document] Document 200678.
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[date] The month of August is assumed based on the revision of the departure date.
Textual Notes
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Sep. 6 This and the other dates were originally 18 to 19 days earlier, ranging from Marseilles Aug. 18 to Peking Sep. 26. The handwriting in which they were replaced is not BR’s. In his letter of 18 August 1920 (BRACERS 19692), he told Colette that the ship’s departure “keeps on being put off”, this time until 2 September. On 25 August (BRACERS 19696) he noted that departure was now to be 6 September.
