BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 19 FEB. 1928
BRACERS 19758. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Telegraph House
Harting, Petersfield.1
Feb. 19, 1928

My dear Colette

Thank you with all my heart for your letter.2

I shall be able to come up on March 25 unless I am prevented by something quite unexpected, such as an epidemic. I am writing to Priscilla3 to say I will come to dinner. Are you going to be staying with her?

Why don’t you come down here to visit Nickie?4 You could be put up for the night at the guest house,5 and after the children are in bed one could talk. I should like to see you before you go so far away,6 if it were possible.

B.

Dora is in USA, and will be back about March 10.

• 1

  [document] Document 200765.

• 2

  your letter Possibly her letter of 11 Feb. 1928 (BRACERS 98473).

• 3

  Priscilla Priscilla, Lady Annesley (1870–1941), the second wife of Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl of Annesley (1831–1908). Colette describes her mother as “among the most beautiful women of her day” with a love of bright colours and walking (After Ten Years [London: J. Cape, 1931], pp. 12–14).

• 4

  Nickie Nicky Malleson, the son of Miles and his second wife Joan.

• 5

  guest house Nearby Battine House was leased by the Russells.

• 6

  you go so far away She was leaving for South Africa on 20 April on a theatre tour organized by Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson. An entire chapter of After Ten Years is devoted to this tour. She returned to England on 17 February 1929.