BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [10 AUG. 1920]
BRACERS 19682. 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
Tuesday3

My Beloved

A thousand thousand thanks for your dear kindness in sending me the sachets and the soap — you are good to me —

C.A.4 got off all right5 this morning. How everything is breaking up! It is difficult. — Very busy — Bless you my Heart’s Life —

B

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  [document] Document 200685.

• 2

  [envelope] Miss Colette O’Niel | “Milestones” Co. | The Theatre | Leicester. Pmk: BATTERSEA S.W.11 | 3.30 PM | 10 AUG 20

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

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  C.A. (Reginald) Clifford Allen (1889–1939). He and BR had been sharing a flat in Battersea since February 1919. For information on Allen, see BRACERS 19046, n.7.

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  off all right Allen was leaving for a Swiss sanatorium; his health had been permanently damaged by the harsh conditions of his imprisonment during World War I.