BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 23 JUNE 1930
BRACERS 19781. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Telegraph House
Harting, Petersfield.1
23.6.30

My dearest Colette

The end of the term is getting near, and I hope before very long you will be with John2 and Kate3 and me in Cornwall.4 I don’t know the exact day I shall go, but it will be not later than July 10. Any day after that would be all right, and for a long as you care to stay until near the end of July. The station is Penzance, and I will meet you at the station. A good part of the day-time will be spent on the beach with the children, but the evenings will be undisturbed, and we needn’t always be with the children in the day-time as they will have a governess,5 but I like to be with them a good deal. I am longing to see you again.

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200787.

• 2

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

• 3

  Kate Katharine Jane Russell, born 29 December 1923, to BR and his wife Dora. Her surname changed to Tait upon her marriage.

• 4

  Cornwall Colette spent the last two weeks of July there at BR and Dora’s summer home, Carn Voel.

• 5

  have a governess Patricia (“Peter”) Spence (1910–2004), an Oxford undergraduate who would become BR’s third wife in 1936. Dora was to go to London after the Beacon Hill School term ended to await the birth of her third child. Her daughter Harriet (1930–2024), whose father was Griffin Barry (1884–1957), was born on 8 July.