BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [6 AUG. 1920]
BRACERS 19680. 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

I want to see you too, quite desperately. No train gets up at all early Sunday so far as I can see. Please get Mr. Bland,4 who will land you here between 2 and 3. I will stay up, I shall hear you, and I will come down and let you in. I will pay. Do do this.

Miss Black5 arrives some time Sunday, probably afternoon. When she comes I must go to the Dock6 if I know in time. I must be here in case of telephone message — She will phone as soon as she lands.

Please come up by motor — It is the only way we can have a safe time — You can be discovered on the sofa in Allen’s room7 when Miss Haydon8 comes —

My Beloved, my dear dear Love, I love you utterly — beyond all telling.

B

<on the verso of the envelope:> You can’t arrive by train till 10.24 Sunday.

• 1

  [document] Document 200683.

• 2

  [envelope] Miss Colette O’Niel | Grosvenor Hotel | Southsea. Pmk: LONDON | 730 PM | 6 AU | 20

• 3

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

• 4

  Mr. Bland Not identified; presumably a chauffeur.

• 5

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

• 6

  go to the Dock Dora was returning from Russia by ship.

• 7

  Allen’s room (Reginald) Clifford Allen (1889–1939). He and BR were sharing a flat in Battersea. For information on him, see BRACERS 19046, n.7.

• 8

  Miss Haydon Edith Haydon, a friend of Clifford Allen’s.