"Tuesday My Darling, My Heart, Two wonderful letters from you came this morning—they were a joy—I have loved them more than I can say."

A literary version was created from the second paragraph of this letter along with part of the second paragraph which makes up the postscript of document .200183, record 19203. The literary version is document .052363, record 99821.

"Wed." "Most philosophers like to use long words and splash about and seem grand; they are afraid that if they talked plain English they would be found out."

A literary version (document .052363, record 99821) was created from part of the second paragraph of this letter which makes up the postscript along with the second paragraph of document .200812, record 19202.

"Thursday" "I have made out a syllabus for my lectures on math'al [mathematical] philosophy in the autumn—it has quite excited me."

"Friday aftn. Welcome home my sweetest Dear, my Lovely One—I ache for tomorrow evening—"

"Monday night" Wrote about E.D. Morel for Tribunal [6.9.17].

"My Beloved—Yesterday was perfect heaven—quite unbelievably happy."

A literary version of the letter containing only part of the last paragraph of the letter was prepared — document .052364, record 99823.

"Friday My Dearest Darling—Your dear letter this mg. was a joy—I did nothing last night—"

"Monday night" "Let us meet Wed. if that suits you—I may be lunching with the Whiteheads."

"Tuesday evg. My Darling Love—You write the most heavenly letters that can possibly be imagined—"

Parts of the third paragraph of this letter were prepared as a literary version, document .052365, record 99824. The literary version was dated a day later, 12 September 1917.

"My Dearest Darling—Your letter worries me terribly—I keep puzzling as to its meaning and inventing possible interpretations—"

"Am delighted, my Darling, that you have got a job—"

"17 Sp. Monday". "My Darling I keep on wondering about you—what you are doing, how things are going with you, whether you feel yourself a success, and everything."

This is sheet one of a two-page letter written over two days. The second sheet is document .200194, record 19214. Only sheet one was published in SLBR because it was not seen that the single letter had been given two separate document numbers.

"Tuesday I was delighted my Darling to get your telegram today—as well as yesterday's."

This is sheet 2 of a letter which began the previous day, document .200193, record 19213. Both documents are written on the same blue paper using the same ink. This letter has no salutation. BR posted them together.

"Wed. My Darling—You can hardly imagine what a joy it was to get your letter of Monday night this morning."

"Thursday My Darling—There has been nothing from you today—I am half afraid my early letters and telegrams may not have reached you as your address was not quite rightly telegraphed—but I hope they did."

"Friday" "My Loved One I wait for your new address and your promised long letter—"

[Letter is not signed.]

A literary version of this letter was prepared as document .052366, record 99825. It contains only part of the text.

"Monday morning My Heart's Love—It has been dreadful not knowing your address these days—I longed to write, and it would have been a relief even to telegraph."

"My Darling I am much happier since your letter came."

[Letter is not signed.]

"O My Love, It is dreadful to think of your unhappiness—and I feel you must think of me as a sort of gaoler—if there had been more time I would not have been so rough, but I was in terror and used all weapons."

"My Dearest Loved One—Yes, I will be patient—I don't want to discuss any more—I won't talk about you to Miles—"

"I have just had your letter."

The date presumably comes from the envelope which was noted as missing in December 2009.

"Monday. (Later than the note by hand which was Saturday.) Your letter made me very sad."

[Letter is not signed.]

"Don't be miserable my Loved One—I have been thinking all day and have got things in order."

This letter was dated by Constance Malleson. It may, however, be the second sheet of a two-sheet letter beginning with document .200209, record 19225.

"My Dear One This is terrible—my whole heart and soul is with you in devotion."

[Letter is not signed.]

The date on this letter was provided by Constance Malleson. However, this letter may be the first sheet of a letter which ends with document .200207, record 19224.

"I have just this moment had your letter—you are much more good to me than I deserve."

[Letter is not signed.]

This may be the hand-delivered letter which BR writes about in document .200213, record 19227. It would have been placed in the envelope located with document .200212.

"My Darling—Please don't read the letter I sent you through the post."

[Letter is not signed.]

"I don't want to drive you to despair, I really don't."

[Letter is not signed.]

"10.45 p.m. My Dearest—I am just back from the Committee and have found your letter—you are so good and kind—"

"My Dearest—Your letters have been very dear—I feel I have been a brute—and you have been wonderfully forbearing."

"Tuesday mg. My Darling—I keep on thinking about you from morning till night, and half through the night—still in a fluctuating uncertain sort of way, with undecided moods."

The letter as published in SLBR contains 2 transcription errors: "as" is left out of the last sentence of the first paragraph; "stirring" is transcribed as "striving" in the third paragraph.

The untitled enclosure begins: "Possessiveness in sex-relations". It is document .200218. SLBR 2 mentions the manuscript at #302, n. 1.

"Tuesday It was a joy my Dearest to find your letter when I got home this afternoon."

"Thursday My Darling—I found your little line when I got home just now."

Three sentences (with variation) from this letter were used to create literary letter number 24, document .007052fh, record 93474.

"Sunday" Logic lectures begin Tuesday.

"Tuesday"

BR confesses he spent a night with Vivienne Eliot: "It was utter hell." It had a quality of loathsomeness about it.

Later in the letter BR says that the only thing about the night that was loathsome was that it was not with Colette.

A few sentences from this letter were used to create a literary version: document .052370, record 99829.

"Thursday My Dear Dear Love—Your letter this mg. was a great happiness." It is annotated by Colette: "In answer to mine from Manchester train dated 31 Oct. — Colette."

A literary version of this letter was prepared: document .052372, record 99831, using most of the last paragraph of this letter.

"My Beloved—All the world is transformed for me by having found you again—"

A literary version of the letter containing only part of the first paragraph of the letter was prepared — document .052373, record 99834.

"My Beloved—Your dear letter just came—I hadn't one moment yesterday—I still feel a little shy—and there are still moments when the stab of jealousy hurts unbearably."

"Wed. My Heart's Love—It is heavenly to think of your letter on its way to the Cat and Fiddle—"

"My Darling Just back from National Committee—the first free moment I have had—"

"Sunday mg." Off to Woolwich* to see documents on syndicalism and anarchism.

*The Royal Arsenal Cooperative Society is there.

"Tuesday mg. My Beloved—I am afraid yesterday evening was very painful for you but for me it was a really big step forwards getting back to what we both want."

"Tuesday Char X Station I have had U.D.C. committee and lunch with MacDonald at the Petit Savoyard—"

"My Darling—Thank you for your letters—things are all right in my mind now."

"Friday My Beloved—Yes it was a wonderful day yesterday—it had great quality."

"Tuesday My Beloved—Your little letter yesterday morning was a joy to get, but I hate to think of you living in a 'cold common hell' and my doing so little to help you in it—"

"Friday night. My Beloved—Your letter (and cheque!) have just come—I have only one moment."

"Monday My Beloved I will come to the Petit Savoyard at 7 tomorrow."

"Monday mg. My Darling Loved One—It is hateful to think of you 'tired and depressed'—I know I can do nothing to make you less so, and yet it makes me long just to be with you—I wouldn't try to talk about you, but would just try to make you feel that you are loved."

"Tuesday My Beloved—I will be upstairs at Le Petit Savoyard at 7 exactly—oh I am longing to be with you my dearest joy—I can't bear the feeling of your being unhappy—especially when I am away from it all."

"My Dearest Loved One—This is only one line to bring my love to you—I am so longing for tonight that I can't sit still—"

[Letter is not signed.]

This letter was dated 29 November 1917 by Malleson. However, facts in this letter do not match Colette's letter of the same day. She writes that she will be waiting for BR at Isola Bella at 8; he writes that he will pick her up at 6:30. It also does not match in mood: he says she is unhappy, her letter is obviously very happy. The better date for it is 12 November 1917; on 11 November he asked her when he should call for her for dinner, and the mood fits.

"Sunday evg. My Beloved—You were wonderful, my dear one, and I came away feeling very full of love."

"Monday evg. My Dearest Darling—A thousand thanks for your dear little letter—it was a great joy. C.A. [Clifford Allen] is released on grounds of health."

"Thursday My Dear—I am lonely and miserable beyond endurance—I hoped for some little line from you to make up for the disappointment of Tuesday but nothing has come—"

"Friday night. My Dear Love—Thank you for writing tonight—I have hated myself for having talked to you as I did—and yet it has freed me from hostile feelings which would have grown stronger if I had not spoken." [Re: leaving the studio.]

"Tuesday My Dearest Darling Loved One—It was a joy to come upon your little note this morning tucked away in a corner of Miss Rinder's big letter—and such a dear note too."

"My Beloved—Since last night I feel we have found each other again—I haven't even a faint lingering trace of past evil feelings."

"Friday My Beloved Angel—Your dear little letter came this morning—"

"Friday evg." "I wonder what makes you feel Mendel is all lies. I dare say you are right but I don't know."

"My Darling—I am very sorry such a difficult conversation started last night, when we couldn't finish it."

[Re: Mrs. Eliot.]

"My Beloved This is only one line to say that I do love you, my dear one."

"My Beloved—I have just been seeing [Clifford] Allen off to Scarborough—he seems very much better."

"Thursday My Dearest—You said once that you hated making people unhappy when you knew you were doing it."

"My Sweetest Dearest Love—I feel so full of love and tenderness that I must write once more before you go—a letter to go with you in the train and make you feel my spirit travelling with you."

"Sunday My Darling Love—You were an angel to send such a lovely telegram from Falmouth—also to tell Miles to ring me up." "My work-a-day life will be at Marlowe, with Mrs. E.* I shall come up to London one or two nights in the week...."

[*Eliot.]

"Monday" Tuesday lectures* will be more difficult than those before Xmas.

*BR was to lecture on "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism".

"Tuesday. My Dearest Darling—I hate the thought of you getting such beastly letters from me at Falmouth—I have now said everything beastly that I had to say."

"Wed. mg. My Beloved—Your letter of Sunday came this morning."

[Re Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, and the Manpower Bill.]

"Thursday mg. From your letter I gather you no longer love me—you put me in the past with Miles." "Remember my life depends on it."

[Letter is not signed.]

"Thursday Your letter has come as a thunderbolt I don't know what to do or how to live—"

[Letter is not signed.]

"Immensely relieved by your telegram think too unwise come Falmouth blessings and love".

"Cannot accept or endure verdict implore reversal"

"Letter sent by rail arriving five thirty five please call for at parcels office please telegraph reply"

"Shall arrive Falmouth Sunday morning seven unless you change your mind"

"Friday My Beloved Your telegram gave me hope—it was an immense relief getting it."

"Monday". "I have spent my days reading old letters".

"My Beloved—Your letter this morning renews life in me—all this time I have been feeling all would be well if I could walk with you along the cliffs by the sea—my spirit must have reached you somehow on our walk."

"Fondest love and tender thoughts always with you. B."

"Infinitely grateful for letter feeling real hope at last."

"Friday My Beloved—Your telegram last night gave me the greatest happiness."

"Monday aft. My Heart's Love—You were more wonderful than I have ever known you—you were divine."

"My Beloved—Your dear dear letter this morning is an unspeakable joy—it was happy at the studio—"

"Sat." "... I am engaged to the Whiteheads. I don't know if I shall be able to go to them as I am laid up with piles."

"Sunday My Dearest Darling Thank you for your letter—I am much better today and shall be completely well tomorrow."

"Tuesday mg My Darling Love—I am very sorry I am not yet well enough for the studio tonight, though quite well enough for dinner."

"Sunday night. My Darling Love—I wonder if you are back from the cottage by now—I have such a happy memory of Friday evening—" "Today I went with Littlewood to Leith Hill—"

"My Dear Dear Love—Your beautiful letter was waiting for me when I got back from N.C.F. committee—"

"My Dearest Darling—Your letter today was a beauty letter—I loved it." "Then Miss Madeline A. Doty came to tea."

"Friday" Going to do my Lippincott book [Roads to Freedom] before prison. Worked out a scheme of it today.

This letter was written Friday evening, and mailed the following day, the 16th.

"Sat." "My Heart's Comrade Your dear beautiful letter this morning gave me the most wonderful joy—these last days together have been beyond all words—"

"Dearest Darling Your note just came—I am very happy."

"Monday night." Will easily finish book [Roads to Freedom] in time. Table of Contents done.

"Tuesday evg My Dearest Darling It is dreadful that you are so ill—I do hope you will be better soon."

"Wed. My Darling Love—It is horrid that you have influenza—I do hope you will soon be better." Started writing book [Roads to Freedom]. "It doesn't interest me much."

"Friday night My Darling Love—I was glad to have a rather better account of you from Miles today."

"My book [Roads to Freedom] is under way and goes swimmingly."

"Sunday My Beloved—It will be a joy to see you tomorrow—I have missed you unspeakably—"

"Wed" Dictated all morning to Miss Kyle.

"Thursday night. My Darling Love—It is a great blow that you have measles—how beastly for you—I am sorry—it is horridly uncomfortable, but the bad part ought not to last long."

"Wed. night My Heart's Love—It was a joy to find your dear letter when I got back tonight—thank you, my beloved—"

"Thursday evg. My Beloved—It is hateful having all these days without you—you fill me with such wonderful peace—"

"Thursday night My Dearest Darling—I miss you already so terribly that I don't know how to last till Monday night—"

A literary version was prepared omitting some of the text and with a date of 29 March 1918—document .052376, record 99838.