BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [2 DEC. 1926]
BRACERS 19754. ACS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

John.1^, 2^, 3 and all of us are spending Xmas4 at

The Shiffolds5
Holmbury St. Mary
Dorking.

BR

• 1

  [document] Document 200761.

• 2

  [postcard] Miss Colette O’Niel, | Blagdon, | Somerset. Pmk: LONDON W.C. | DEC 2 | 10.15 PM | 1926D

• 3

  John John Conrad Russell, born 16 November 1921 to BR and his wife Dora.

• 4

  Xmas In fact the Russells stayed at the Lee Abbey Hotel for Christmas. See Francis Meynell, My Lives [London: Bodley Head, 1971], p. 52. Dora also describes the Christmas gathering in The Tamarisk Tree [London: Virago, 1977], p. 90, although she gets the name of the hotel incorrect.

• 5

  The Shiffolds The home of BR’s friends Robert and Elizabeth Trevelyan.