"Sunday." Dated by BR.

Dickinson speaks well of BR and Karin is devoted to him.

Philip is back on the 28^th.

Dated by BR.

OM is thinking of BR. She loves being in the country and is "... happier than ever before and so certain and at peace." 

"Saturday." Dated by BR.

OM writes of the strong bond between them. Her spirit is with him and she has gratitude for his love.

Dated by BR.

OM writes to say that she hopes her previous letter, of the same day, was clear and she sends her love (again).

"Sunday." Dated by BR. He added "Newington".

OM comments on the people at the house: Fisher, Gregg, Ethel, Miss de —, and Philip.

She comments on the country.

"Monday." Dated by BR.

OM was happy to receive BR's letter.

Philip says "do ask him to lunch" and Ottoline writes to BR "come over after lunch."

Dated by BR.

A short note to greet BR when he arrives.

"Friday night." Dated by BR.

They call Prisons "their child". She comments on Prisons and says they are "creating such a splendid child".

OM expresses her thoughts with BR.

"Saturday."

OM is reading Madame de Staël's Reflections sur la Revolution.

Lytton Strachey is coming on Monday and so BR would then meet him.

OM asks about Prisons. "Have you thought about Prisons or written any more? Or have you been busy over proofs?"

"Sunday." Dated by BR.

OM says it is "bad luck to have C.T." and she is beside BR.

She is glad to have kept out of Miss Lindsays eyes—tales filtered to Halton Young; otherwise.

Lytton wrote to her saying he is working hard at his book. His family will stay at the G. Murray's house in Oxford.

"Monday morning." Dated by BR.

OM is reading poetry (John Milton's "Lycidas") with Philip.

She outlines her events for the week. On Monday she is in London and must go to the oculist. Lytton Strachey comes on Tuesday.

OM is longing to see BR.

"Monday."

OM received BR's five letters.

She is reading Plato's Republic. 

Lytton Strachey is to come soon.

"Come here 10.45".

"Friday night." Dated by BR.

OM misses BR. She writes on her love and passion for him.

She enjoyed seeing the country.

She comments on Henry (?) and Mrs. Harrison: "She lives a foolish life of small pleasures".

Saturday morning.

OM has been interrupted all morning. Philip read her Logan's article last night: "amusing and well written."

She is probably referring to Prisons: "And I feel certain the work you are doing and will do is your work and will give humanity the best that is your power to give."

"Saturday night, Sunday morning." Dated by BR.

Philip's niece, Dorothy Warren is staying. OM thinks she is "very nice ... and clever."

Philip and OM are discussing India and Philip wants to go there.

OM writes on the effect BR has on her: "I get more and more into you or rather you seem to me to take possession of me and to dominate every thought in me. Neither you nor I realize how much."

Philip is reading E.M. Forster.

"I believe the best setting for your Prisons will come from within."

"Monday." Dated by BR.

OM has decided that she will not go to India.

She wonders what BR is doing and "whether you have thought anything more about Prisons."

"Buon giorno caro mio".

"9 a.m. Friday." Dated by BR.

"I wish I could tell you the wonderful joy and happiness it is to me to feel I am any use to you in your work." [She is probably referring to "Prisons".]

OM discusses the "sacredness of our love." She is making plans to meet BR.

"Friday." Dated by BR.

"How anxious I shall be to know how the last chapter forms. I feel awfully anxious over that child" (OM and BR refer to Prisons as their "child").

OM has just seen the oculist and will see another doctor.

"A belief in Waters" (?).

OM says that the Lords are exciting. She comments on a Miss L.

"I feel in a way as if my spirit was helping you write your thoughts—my passionate belief is with you and is yours."

"Saturday." Dated by BR.

OM thinks that BR's present work (probably Prisons) "will have a very great effect on many people." She hopes that he was able to write a chapter yesterday.

Virginia and Humphrey P. visit and Lytton Strachey will visit with Oliver tomorrow.

She hopes BR finds the Whiteheads happy and well.

OM is in London on Monday.

"Afternoon."

OM is glad BR's interview was okay.

She mentions the effect of their talk: "All these things we have been talking of are so strong within me and grow and grow and will not fade."

OM is seeing the oculist.

OM thinks that Humphrey is a good talker. He was talking on politics and people and she thinks he is very clever.

"I don't look forward to Virginia as I couldn't trust her."

She mentions Philip's debate, Lloyd George's speech, Lord Hastings (?) and Lord Selborne (?).

She finds Gilbert Murray's letter interesting.

"Sunday." Dated by BR.

OM comments on Prisons: "It is splendid that you see your way clearly about Prisons." She is longing to talk to BR about Prisons, mentioning parts on justice and truth. "I hope you are having a nice Sunday and that Prisons is growing and growing strong within."

"Monday." Dated by BR.

OM does not have much to say. She is looking forward to seeing BR.

Virginia was nice.

She says that she must see an oculist.

"Sunday." Dated by BR.

OM is thinking of BR all the time. She sends her love.

"Tuesday." Dated by BR. He added "44 Bedford Square".

She will see BR on Thursday. "My love and thoughts are with you every moment."

"I keep thinking what you are doing and if you are able to write at our child [Prisons]?"

"Tuesday." Dated by BR.

OM is reading Carlyle and Thomas.

The sadness she had been feeling is now parting from her mind.

Lamb will not be coming. Philip is going to Dover to put her on the boat.

On Prisons: "Yes and your work is mine too. I do really feel it through you just as a child would be."

Dated by BR.

OM sends her love.

"Wednesday evening." Dated by BR.

OM is unhappy to be parted from BR. She says that she carries his life with her and vice versa. BR helps her to live "better and more greatly." Her spirit is with him.

"Ever with you".

"Thursday morning." Dated by BR.

OM is thinking of BR and his important work at Cambridge.

OM has no news of Mother Julian and briefly discusses her.

"Thursday night." Dated by BR.

OM is longing for a letter from BR. She is reading Gibbon on the early Christians. 

She misses him but is grateful for the past. Her spirit is always with him.

The conference is off so they will not go back to Italy. She will be back to England on the 18th or 19th.

On Prisons: "If when you get to Cambridge you could have the 'Child' typed I should very much like to have it to read. I think of it a great deal and would like to have it to refer to."

"Friday night." Dated by BR.

Philip is reading Gibbon to her. OM mentions a specific part about the Carly (?) Church and Christians.

OM is going to Prague, then Vienna, then Munich, and then perhaps Budapest.

She recalls the "perfect" times they spent together, reading and talking and all the silly jokes.

She mentions BR's friend Oliver Mansfield. She asks if he had a nice serious talk with Miss Silcox.

Dated by BR.

OM discusses the weather in Prague and asks about England. She mentions the hotels where she stays.

Philip read her a book on Antony and Cleopatra titled Character and Events of Roman History by Guglielmo Ferrero.

Dated by BR.

OM tells BR of her day's events. She walked out to the country to the Abbey and describes the sites they saw.

She would like to see Santayana's criticism.

She writes that BR idolizes her.

OM is glad that BR had a pleasant time with Miss S. (Silcox?).

"Monday night." Dated by BR.

OM says it is a joy to receive BR's letters. 

The restaurants are all closed and their hotel door is locked "like a prison".

BR was telling her "grave news" on symbolic logic, the Aristotelian Society meeting, Bergson etc., while she only tells "silly twadle". 

OM is interested in the letter from Ivy Pretious.

OM is still reading Gibbon—she admires the Christians.

OM asks if there have been any other reviews of his book and asks about the Santayana criticism of his other book.

"Tuesday night." Dated by BR.

The doctor wants OM to have five more mud baths.

Her plans are undecided. She misses BR's letters.

Mother Julian died Sunday morning.

"Wednesday." Dated by BR.

"I am so glad you are sending me Prisons."

OM writes on the death of Mother Julian. "Death shakes one so frightfully." "She was so different from the other religious people I have ever known much more mystical."

OM says that they must read the same books.

Ivy Pretious' letter is nice and she briefly discusses it.

OM enjoys Gibbon. She mentions Wilhelm Muster, Carlyle and Mignon.

"Stolphin's death—will it make much difference to Russia?" She is glad he is dead.

"Thursday night." Dated by BR.

BR will meet Cantor.

She briefly mentions the problem in Palladio.

OM discusses BR's strange dream.

Philip and Stuart Samuel (Herbert Samuel's brother) play golf tomorrow.

OM is glad BR is interested in Varamagov. She "found it much the most interesting of Dostrinsky" (Dostoyevsky?).

OM asks if BR liked Sandra.

OM would like to hear more of Mother Julian and wishes BR could have seen her. She says it is wonderful to have known someone like Mother Julian.

OM is reading Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett.

"Friday night." Dated by BR.

OM describes their relationship and how they talk and think alike. OM is helping BR in his work and she encourages him.

Cantor's letter interested her, especially Poincaré "on his brain".

She tells BR where to write to her next. She will be back to England before the 24th.

Dated by BR. A picture postcard from Marienbad.

On the back of the postcard: "Do you recognize me?"

"Saturday night." Dated by BR.

OM is longing for BR's letters.

She tells him to work and go ahead in his "harder thoughts". She is glad that the "Aristotelian Paper is so packed with new ideas". "I find I think a great deal about Prisons."

"You must feel my presence with you subconsciously when you are most absorbed."

OM read Hadrian. 

Philip received a letter from Miss Mabecka who is in prison. Philip and OM have no more quarrels with the manager of the hotel. Yesterday they had tea with Stuart Samuel.

Arnold Bennett's new book is out.

"Sunday." Dated by BR.

"She is still living in me" (OM is likely referring to Mother Julian).

She loves all of BR's letters.

"Sunday night." Dated by BR.

Philip is still reading Gibbon to OM.

She encloses a newspaper clipping of cartoons.

"The elections in Canada are a great disappointment aren't they?"

OM asks if BR has been writing his Aristotelian paper.

"Monday." Dated by BR.

Ottoline's Mother Julian was "the one person who will live with one more than anyone even though one cannot see her for as you said her gifts were so spiritual and her whole being was so infinite that nothing can take away...."

She comments on BR's wonderful letters.

Philip is "very tiring", restless and always hurrying OM.

BR is needing a rest from writing.

OM thinks BR should give Mrs. Whitehead hints, to be careful of what she tells Alys, all because Philip told OM something from Logan via Ethel. "It is Alys should make the most of whatever she hears from Mrs. Whitehead."

"Tuesday." Dated by BR.

OM writes on BR's work concerning the difference between universals and particulars. She urges BR to take a rest from writing.

She is glad BR likes Nevenson—"gives one a good impression of India."

OM hopes Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett reached him by now as it would give him some surface reading to do.

On Dostoyevsky: OM thinks he is too chaotic and "I suppose does glorify his sinners too much."

She writes of her problem packing and hopes to rest at Meran. OM received a letter from a friend of Mother Julian's.

"Wednesday evening." Dated by BR.

OM discusses the problems in Palladio—onto Peste from Vienna.

BR says he is living a "quiet bachelor life". She mentions Cantor and BR writing letters to him. OM is glad BR has finished his Aristotelian paper.

OM sent BR a book on Tolstoy's life.

"Thursday." Dated by BR.

OM is writing this letter while in the train from Prague to Vienna. They left Prague early. She comments on Prague calling it "very modern".

She just finished a book by Dostoyevsky which she found "awfully good".

OM longs for his letters.

"Friday." Dated by BR.

OM wants to read more Plato and Spinoza.

She used to make a list of questions to ask Miss Stowe II.

She discusses the letter from John.

She went to the picture gallery and mentions Giorgione.

OM asks BR to tell her his opinion of Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett.

Dated by BR.

OM writes a short letter just to show BR that she is thinking of him.

"Saturday morning." Dated by BR.

OM says that there is gossip circulating about her and BR between Mrs. Whitehead, Logan, Alys and Ethel.

Logan left Oxford.

She feels sorry for Karine "in that mileum."

OM is reading Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett.

She asks about Mrs. Whitehead.

"Vienna." Dated by BR.

OM tells BR about Schönbrunn and describes the outside of the Palace, the classical temple and the garden.

"Vienna seems utterly cruel." She admires the architecture but cannot free herself "from the sense of suffering and poverty underneath."

"Will your book be out soon?"

"Monday." Dated by BR.

OM discusses the war: "... ghastly ... I cannot help feeling England might have done something to stop it." She says that Grey is always holding back.

She longs to hear if BR is happy at Cambridge. Prisons is arriving safely.

Ethel told Philip that Mrs. Whitehead said BR does not care for OM and that it is all on her side—"that I had rather forced your hand...."

She hopes Logan and Alys will settle down. OM discusses what BR says about "touch".

"Monday night." Dated by BR.

OM has a great longing for Italy. She comments on Austria.

She has finished Arnold Bennett's Hilda Lessways and briefly discusses the book.

OM has heard from Lamb that Lytton Strachey arrived in Brittany to visit him. Lamb says Strachey is "hysterical" and "delicate".

Yesterday they went to Albertina.

"In train, Tuesday." Dated by BR.

OM accidentally mailed her letter to BR to Cambridge instead of London and hopes that the letter will reach him.

"Wed. morning." Dated by BR.

OM is leaving for Meran. She would rather see "wild plows" than go on "civilized tourist haunts".

OM is going to Domk (?) to look at Maximilian.

"Wednesday." Dated by BR.

OM writes on her impressions of Italy and Vienna.

She is interested in what BR tells her of Bergson. She asks BR if he has seen Goldie.

Moore is at Cambridge and BR finds him pleasant.

OM mentions "Sacred and Profane Love" and "L'Espirit Santevain"(?). 

She says the Imperial Library is "gorgeous".

OM is "... so happy to have Prisons. I hope to begin it tomorrow."

Dated by BR.

OM lists the dates and addresses of the hotels she will be staying in so BR can write to her. She is going from Meran to Switzerland to Paris.

"Thursday night." Dated by BR.

OM tells BR to "Blow Bergson!!" (Why?).

The doctor at Marienbad told OM to drink grape juice.

"Friday." Dated by BR.

OM has not started reading Prisons yet.

Mrs. Whitehead is ill. Logan and Alys are repeating what Mrs. Whitehead says. OM feels for BR—he is in anxiety about Mrs. Whitehead.

OM asks if BR saw Rupert Brooke's letter in the Nation. She asks BR if Richard Crashaw is good—she likes the verses quoted in Hilda Lessways.

BR met with George Trevelyan.

OM comments on the war.

She received a letter from Gresille B. Hanellin (?) about Mother Julian.

"Saturday." Dated by BR.

OM will be back by the 20th.

She hopes BR had a good lunch with the Trevelyans and Davies.

OM wishes she could hear BR give lectures to the Aristotelian Society. She comments on Bergson and Waterlow.

OM will order Moultand (?) essays for BR.

"Sunday." Dated by BR.

OM is anxious to know if the Whiteheads have said anything about Prisons.

She is sorry about the state that Alys is in. OM says it is impossible to know what and to whom Mrs. Whitehead tells things. OM says that she has not said a word to Dora.

Roger is being disloyal towards her and BR. She hopes that BR will talk to Dickinson.

OM could not bear people to think ill of Philip, especially if Alys asked for a divorce.

She mentions an Austrian Field Marshall whom she met at dinner. She had a telegram from the doctors at Lausanne to see her.

OM describes Meran.

"Monday." Dated by BR.

OM has read two chapters of Prisons. "It is so clear and chiselled and fine and sympathetic." She asks if the Whiteheads have read Prisons yet. She comments on truth and how it is expressed in Prisons.

"One must take risks and live bravely and cheerfully and venture as Keats used to say."

Philip is happy and there are no problems. They are still reading Gibbon and she comments on it.

OM calls Waterlow a gossip. She says it was "foolish of Arthur Dakyns to tell him <Waterlow?" and asks if Dakyns is very unhappy.

She hopes BR will be able to find a chaperone for Miss Cox. OM asks if BR has heard anything of "Old June"—she has a new book coming out.

She mentions Clive Bell's article in the Nation.

OM has met the Mentz Tonzoks who live near Fiume. She heard from Lamb yesterday. Lamb saw Lytton Strachey.

Audrey Wallas writes how it is sad about Russells (possibly on BR and Alys and their separation).

She mentions Graham Wallas's next book which is expected to come next autumn or spring.

Wallas thanks OM for her subscription.

This file is the last to contain a transcription of the letter.

Dated by BR.

OM has read two more chapters of Prisons and comments on it briefly.

She will be travelling through the Italian country tomorrow.

OM is seeing a doctor in Lausanne on Friday.

Dated by BR.

OM comments on Prisons: "There are a few tiny alterations in words that I think you might make for".

OM writes on Italy.

She asks if she could show Prisons to Philip. She erases the entire paragraph explaining that it would be better to wait.

OM mentions an old friend, Marshall.

She arrives at Botzen.

Dated by BR.

OM writes on the "sacredness" of their love.

She describes her wonderful feeling of being in Italy. She writes on the buildings, the countryside and the people.

She expresses her happiness at receiving three of BR's letters.

Dated by BR.

OM is still in Italy. She will see the doctor in Lausanne. She writes on what they do while in Milan.

She is interested to hear about the Fellowship (BR's?).

She comments on the nice talk with Dickinson that BR had. She is glad to hear that BR found Mrs. Whitehead better.

"Friday night." Dated by BR.

OM describes her trip back from Milan to Lausanne. She says that she will be back in London possibly on the 20th or 21st of October.

"Sunday night." Dated by BR.

"Sunday morning." Dated by BR.

"Sunday." Dated by BR.

"Sat." Dated by BR.

OM writes about her "very busy morning". She went shopping.

She expects BR in the afternoon or the evening.