BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
112938

"(Evening)". The letter is not dated; the date is assigned by its place in the sequence.

112939
112940

"Wednesday evening."

112941
112942

"Midnight".

112943

"Early Saturday a.m."

112944

"Saturday morning".

112945
112946

Note on date: The date appears as "Friday, 7 October"; the letter is numbered 15.  However in the typescript, it follows letter number 14, which is dated "10 October, 16."

112947
112948

"Early".

112949

"Lunch hour".

112950

"Midnight."

112951
112952
112953
112954
112955

The date comes from a notation indicating this date. The letter itself is dated "7 October" which is clearly an error. There is a literary version of this, document .052354, record 99804, which contains only one sentence from this letter.

112956
112957

Dated by BR.

OM tells BR that she is not killing their love—"My spirit is with you this moment and every moment." She has "so long trained myself not to give in to my own desires." 

She says that it would be "madness to let each other go." Philip does not possess her but she cannot now "cast Philip off".

OM says she and BR must meet out of doors and writes on her love for BR and the "great power" he has over her. She asks if BR has told Alys.

112958
112959
112960
112961
112962
112963

"Monday early".

Letter is not dated. Date derived from day of the week plus placement in sequence.

112964
112965
112966
112967
112968
112969

There is a literary version of this letter. Document .052356, record 99809.

Much has been omitted and the text of what remains varies from this document.

112970
112971

"Sunday after you left."

Letter is not dated. Date derived from day of the week plus placement in sequence.

112972

There is a longer literary version of this letter.

Document .052357, record 99810. Wording varies as well. The literary version has been given a different date, 1 December 1916.

112973
112974
112975
112976
112977
112978
112979
112980
112981
112982
112983
112984
112985
112986

There is a literary version of this letter: document .052358, record 99811.

112987
112988

"Saturday night".

On her devotion to BR: "I rest on you so surely." OM feels that she must obey her duty, but Philip does not possess her—she feels apart from him. She feels that it is terribly hard to resist but she must not submit yet and asks again if he has told Alys.

112989
112990
112991
112992
112993
112994

"Sunday—after you went out."

112995
112996
112997
112998
112999
113000
113001

"Monday night."

113002
113003

"Lunch hour."

113004
113005
113006

"(Priscilla's birthday.)"

113007
113008
113009
113010
113011

"Friday midnight—". Assigned date is Friday just before midnight.

113012

"Saturday early."

113013
113014
113015
113016

"Later."

113017
113018
113019
113020
113021
113022
113023
113024
113025
113026
113027
113028
113029

"Morning."

113030
113031

"Monday morning". Dated by BR.

OM is torn between going away with BR or staying with Philip and Julian (her daughter). There would be pain involved if she and BR should decide to part, and she writes again of the possibility of meeting (but where—Haslemere?).

BR is "impatient but you know yourself and must not buck your character by being false to what you feel right." She asks again: "tell me about Alys".

OM will see the Whiteheads—she doesn't think Mrs. Whitehead likes her.

113032
113033
113034
113035

The original letter is still extant, document .200804d, record 116391. The text varies greatly from this typescript.

113036
113037

There is also an original letter written on this day, document .200804e, record 116392. It is very brief.