BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 24 AUG. 1948
BRACERS 19853. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Penralltgoch
Llan Ffestiniog
Merioneth1
24.8.48

My dearest Colette

Your letter of the 19th2 reached me yesterday. Festiniog is 3 miles from Blaenau Festiniog, along the road to Port Madoc;3 our cottage is a quarter of a mile from Festiniog, towards Port Madoc; the inn, the Pengwern Arms, is at our end of the village. You would not find our cottage on any map, but you might find Bryn Llewelyn, a big house next door. Festiniog is on a ridge between two mountain streams, the Taigh and the Cynval.

I am pretty sure the Pengwern Arms would have room for you at short notice, so I hope you will be able to come. I shall not be here after Sp. 30, as I am due in Oslo next day. After that, Berlin.4 I return to London on Oct. 27, unless the Russians catch me.

How stupid of Hansson5 to get such a bad translator!

I long to see you again, dearest Colette. Much love.

Your
B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200860.

• 2

  Your letter of the 19th Not extant.

• 3

  Port Madoc In Welsh, Porthmadog. BR uses a more anglicized version as was common then.

• 4

  Oslo ... Berlin BR gave a series of philosophical and political lectures as planned in Norway, after surviving an airplane crash. He had been in a flying-boat airplane travelling from Oslo to Trondheim on 2 October when the accident occurred. He visited Berlin on behalf of the Foreign Office.

• 5

  Hansson Johan Hansson, BR’s Swedish publisher.