BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 28 AUG. 1947
BRACERS 19841. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon
Proofread by K. Blackwell

Aug. 28, 1947

Dearest Colette

Your letter of Aug. 221 came this morning. I have sent £202 to Miss Fish.3 How lovely it will be if you get to London. I have to be in Cambridge every Thursday4 from Oct. 9 on, but otherwise I hope not to have very many engagements. I am afraid the plan of coming to Sweden is off — they say no Swedes will go to lectures in June (I don’t blame them!) and I can’t come before then. You must let me know your address in London, which I have forgotten.

We are now in Wales:5

Festiniog, N. Wales

is the address. We shall come back to London at the end of September, when Conrad6 goes back to school.

Very much love. Longing for your arrival.

B

• 1

  Your letter of Aug. 22 Not extant.

• 2

  sent £20 It is not clear what is going on with this money. On 20 November 1947, he wrote: “I got your £20, which was correct. Thank you” (document 200849).

• 3

  Miss Fish Phyllis Fish, later Urch, who remained friends with Colette until Colette’s death.

• 4

  in Cambridge every Thursday To lecture.

• 5

  We are now in Wales Russell and his wife Peter had purchased a home there, Penralltgoch — renovations were finally at a stage that allowed habitation.

• 6

  Conrad Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, born 15 April 1937, to Russell and his wife Patricia.