BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 21 APR. 1948
BRACERS 19848. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

27 Dorset House,
Gloucester Rd.,a
N.W.11
21.4.48

My dearest Colette

It is now fixed that I arrive at Stockholm2 Air Port at 6:15 p.m. on May 21 (Friday) and leave on the 31st. Hansson3 insists on meeting me at the airport and driving me to the hotel.4 I told him you would engage my room. Could you let him know the name of the hotel? I suggest that we meet, you and I, at the hotel,5 not the airport, which would be annoyingly public. I have insisted that I am to have no engagements after the 27th, so that the last few days you and I can escape. I am full of eagerness. All love.

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200854.

• 2

  arrive at Stockholm During this trip BR gave lectures at both Stockholm University and Uppsala University, addressed the Swedish parliament, and wrote three articles for Swedish newspapers. These activities paid for the trip.

• 3

  Hansson Johan Hansson, his Swedish publisher.

• 4

  to the hotel The Reisen, a small hotel on the waterfront, which Colette thought was “far nicer than the garish Grand” (15 Dec. 1947, BRACERS 113263), having stayed at The Grand in 1936. The two hotels are on opposite sides of the Svartän waterway.

• 5

  at the hotel Colette had written at the end of March that she would give her room number to the hall porter at the Reisen hotel and wait in her room for him (BRACERS 113265).

Textual Notes

• a

  Rd. BR should have written “Place”. Gloucester Road is in South Kensington.