BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 26 FEB. 1928
BRACERS 19762. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Telegraph House
Harting, Petersfield.1
26.2.28

My dear Colette

Thank you very much for your dear letter.2 Yes, we can meet in London, if you are free, any Monday evening except tomorrow — I have a lecture at 8.30 every Monday3 — I am sorry you have been let down. But probably you can produce your own play4 better than any one else could. I wish you could have come here for the day some Sat. or Sunday, if longer is impossible. The car would take you to and from the station. Goodbye with all love.

B.

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  [document] Document 200768.

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  your dear letter Her letter of 21 February 1928 (BRACERS 111273).

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  a lecture at 8.30 every Monday On “The Philosophy of Physics” for the British Institute of Philosophical Studies, London.

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  produce your own play The Way staged by the Arts Theatre in London on 25 March 1928 and reviewed the following day in The Times. The best that the reviewer could call the play was “tolerable” and only for a few brief moments did it reach that level. Colette blamed the disaster on Theodore Komisarjevsky, who had promised to produce it but did not (“Letters to Bertrand Russell from Constance Malleson, 1916–1969”, p. 8). She wrote to BR that this man had wanted £100, which she did not have (21 Feb. 1928; BRACERS 111273). However, the programme indicates that the play was produced by Charles Carson, who also acted in it (Box 6.74, file 14; also typescripts of the play). It is unclear if Carson was actually involved or not. The advertising leaflet with a blurb (B&R G3a) from BR promoting the play does list Komisarjevsky as the producer (Carrie Webster papers, Box 5.70).