BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 19 DEC. 1930
BRACERS 19791. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Telegraph House
Harting, Petersfield.1
19.12.30

My dearest Colette

A thousand thanks for The best of both worlds2 — it is a lovely binding,3 and I am very glad to have the book. I like it better with your marks.

Thank you from the children and Lily4 for the presents, which I haven’t given them yet.

All Xmas wishes and love.

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200797.

• 2

  The best of both worlds  Henry Vaughan and Andrew Marvell, The Best of Both Worlds: A Choice Taken from Their Poems; Francis Meynell, ed. (London: Allen & Unwin, 1918). Russell’s Library, 532.

• 3

  lovely binding The book is bound in green leather with gilt edges and type. It is inscribed “B.R. Christmas 1930”.

• 4

  Lily This is the only mention of Lily in this correspondence. She is likely Lily Howell who worked for the Russells as a member of their domestic staff and was close to the children (Dora Russell, The Tamarisk Tree [New York: Putnam’s, 1975], pp. 228, 230).