"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.

"Wednesday". Dated by BR.

"Sunday night". Dated by BR.

"Sat". Dated by BR.

"Tuesday night." Dated by BR.

"Wed. night". Dated by BR.

BR has no objection to being included in the BBC's Hindustani Series of Portraits or to the choice of E.M. Forster. They have met only once or twice in the past 15 years, "during which time, he feels, he may have changed." BR will try to arrange to see Forster when he is in London in early June.

"Sunday". Dated by BR.

"Wed". Dated by BR.