BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 4 NOV. 1929
BRACERS 19767. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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The Pacific Limited
The Milwaukee Road
Union Pacific System
Southern Pacific System1^, 2
4 Nov. 1929

My dear Colette

Thank you for the p.c. of Wuthering Heights,3 which reached me in San Francisco.4 I had hoped to hear from you5 when you got back from S. Africa, but as I didn’t I thought perhaps you had married,6 as your last letter7 suggested you might. Do let me know what has happened to you. And if you ever do want to see me I shall be glad. — I get home for Xmas. May all good things be yours.

Your
B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200773.

• 2

  [envelope] Miss Colette O’N[iel] | c/o Priscilla Countess A[nnesley] | 80 Eccleston Square | London S.W.1 | England. The envelope was torn to remove the stamp.

• 3

  the p.c. of Wuthering Heights The post card is not extant; presumably she purchased it while on tour with Sir Frank Benson. In 1918 when BR was in prison she read the novel and drafted a dramatization of it.

• 4

  San Francisco From 18 September to 20 December 1929 BR was on a lecture tour of America to help finance Beacon Hill School. This time he again began on the east coast, followed by the mid-West, then north to Winnipeg, crossed western Canada to Vancouver, down the American west coast, then through some western states (Utah, Colorado, Texas) and into the South. He then travelled back north as far as Minnesota, back to the East coast with stops in the mid-West, then to Montreal before ending in New York. It’s not surprising he ended up in bed with bronchitis when he returned home. He spoke on the topics of civilization, world peace, marriage, his faith, and education, again mainly on college campuses and to women’s groups, although this tour also included some philosophical talks at the California Institute of Technology and Harvard.

• 5

  hoped to hear from you In what may be (“may be” because she writes that his letter came from the middle of Canada which is hardly San Francisco) a response to this letter, she writes (12 Dec. 1929, BRACERS 98402) that she too had been waiting for him to write. She wanted him to come to Blagdon, Somerset for a visit.

• 6

  married Colette never remarried.

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  your last letter Her letter written a year earlier from Victoria Falls, Africa (2 Nov. 1928, BRACERS 98400).