BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
113138

"Sat." Dated from letter no. 202.

113139

"Bellingdon."

113140

"Wed.—at last!".

113141
113142
113143

"Thursday."

113144

"Mon. night. Blessed night!".

There is a literary version (ribbon and carbon), document .201158, record 116273 and document .052395, record 99860. It contains only one sentence from this version: "To-morrow I shall see you."

113145
113146
113147

There is a literary version (ribbon and carbon), document .201159, record 116275 and document .052396, record 99861. Similarities in the text occur between the second and third paragraphs of the literary version and the part of this letter written on 7 August.

113148
113149
113150
113151

"In the park." There is a literary version (ribbon and carbon) written on the same day, document .201161, record 116279 and document .052398, record 99864, but it contains no text matches.

113152
113153

"St. Margaret's Bay, nr. Dover,".

There is a typed extract, document .201208, record 116697, which is quite similar to the beginning of this letter.

There is a literary version written on the same day and location which is vaguely related to this letter.

Ribbon copy, document .201163, record 116282;
carbon copy, document .052400, record 99866.

113154

"Wed. night".

113155

"2 Sept. and in 4 wks you'll be out."

113156
113157

There is a literary version of this letter which draws on some of the text, document .052404, record 99870.

113158
113159

Written in reply to BR's letter of 11 September.

113160

Written in response to BR's letter of 13 September. He got out of prison early on 14 September. Colette is "almost certain" it did not reach him in prison.

113161
113162

"Late evening."

113163

"Wed.—after-Lynton."

113164
113165
113166

"Midnight —", on Sunday. It contains a brief postscript written on Monday.

113167
113168
113169
113170
113171
113172
113173
113174
113175
113176
113177
113178

Although undated, this letter was written in response to BR's letter of 28 February. His reply was written on 4 March. Thus this letter was written on either 2 or 3 March.

113179
113180
113181

Although undated, this letter was written in response to BR's letter of 12 December stating that Wittgenstein had arrived.

113182
113183
113184
113185

"Evening—".

113186
113187

"Undated. 'By Special Messenger'". BR responded to this letter on 28 January.

113188

"Thursday evening."

113189
113190

"[Undated]".

113191
113192
113193
113194
113195

"[Undated]". This letter was written after receiving BR's letter of 19 February.

113196
113197
113198
113199
113200
113201
113202

"[Undated]". This appears to be written later the same day as letter no. 263.

113203
113204

"[Undated]". This is a typed copy of a florist's card.

"Lilies—the kind you had in Brixton, with all my love." The flowers were sent to welcome him back home from Russia.

113205
113206
113207

Colette writes: "Your Volga 'book-letter' seems to me most wonderful. I've read it many times." She is referring to document .001565, record 18772.

113208
113209
113210
113211

"Later". Dated from letter no. 271, which was written earlier that day.

113212
113213
113214
113215
113216
113217
113218
113219
113220
113221
113222
113223
113224
113225
113226
113227
113228
113229
113230
113231

"Sunday afternoon."

The letter is dated from the opening of the play Conflict on 30 November 1925.

113232
113233
113234
113235

This typed letter has a short textual overlap with Colette's handwritten letter of 2 November 1928 (document .052484, record 98400). The similar text concerns the difficulty of their meeting in the future. Both letters were written from Southern Rhodesia.

113236
113237

The letter relates an incident in which BR lost his temper at the nursery-governess (Patricia Russell).