BRACERS Record Detail for 19860
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"Dearest Colette Peter is in bed with a temperature and gets agitated over your difficulties at the cottage."
BR wants Malleson to write to Patricia about the difficulties, although she is ill.
BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 5 MAR. 1949
BRACERS 19860. ALS. McMaster. SLBR 2: #484
Edited by S. Turcon and N. Griffin. Reviewed by K. Blackwell
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18a Dorset House
Gloucester Place
N.W.1.1
5 March 1949
Dearest Colette
Peter2 is in bed with a temperature and gets agitated over your difficulties3 at the cottage.4 Would you please write to me, not to her, if you have anything that needs telling about them. We are very sorry you are having all this worry. When I come I will see if anything can be done. Love.
B.
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[document] Document 200867.
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Peter Patricia (“Peter”) Russell, née Spence (1910–2004). She and BR were married from 1936 until 1952.
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agitated over your difficulties With regard to the cottage’s domestic staff. Peter wrote to Elizabeth Crawshay-Williams about the problems in letters of 19 February and 2 April 1949 (BRACERS 131561 and 131562).
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the cottage Pentralltgoch in Llan Ffestiniog.
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