BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 4 DEC. 1947
BRACERS 19844. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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27 Dorset House
Gloucester Place
N.W.11
Dec. 4, 1947

My dearest Colette

I was so glad of your lovely letter.2 But we can’t count on my being able to come unless Hansson3 can manage something that will get me a permit to travel. I need something like an invitation to lecture to a university or a learned society. It ought not to be difficult. I agree with your suggestion about the hotel; I hope Hansson will let you book the rooms. I shall travel both ways by air, as it will give me more time in Sweden. I think I could stay a week, but not longer. To get money, I should be glad to write something for a Swedish periodical, or talk on their radio,4 or do anything of that sort. But this would need to be authorized by the Swedish government, probably. Could you make Hansson understand these things? Red tape now-a-days makes everything so difficult.

Dearest Colette, I hope with all my heart that the difficulties will be overcome. I suppose I should have to spend a good deal of the time on official jobs, but there would still be a lot of the time left.

Goodnight with all love.

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200850.

• 2

  your lovely letter Not extant.

• 3

  Hansson Johan Hansson, BR’s publisher in Sweden and founder of Natur och Kultur.

• 4

  write something for a Swedish periodical, or talk on their radio See BRACERS 19842, n.4 for what he did.