BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [16 DEC. 1916]
BRACERS 19093. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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My Darling1^, 2^, 3

Your letter4 and the time-table came this morning. I think your plan for Sunday5 sounds perfectly heavenly. I shall love being in your cottage6 — we will have a wonderful day. I will come about 10.10 and then we can get to Marylebone without hurrying. I have finished the Ploughshare article7 — my pupils8 came at 3, stayed till after tea, and then invited me to come out and dine with them — which I did. I shan’t see them again for 3 weeks. Now it is late and this must be posted. Goodnight my dear one — I love you with all my soul— I am longing for Sunday.

Your
B

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  [document] Document 200062.

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  [date] Colette wrote “Saturday 16 Dec. 1916” on the letter.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 43 Bernard Street | Russell Square | W.C. Pmk: LONDON. W.C | 1.15 AM | DEC16 16A

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  Your letter Of 15 December 1916 (BRACERS 112980).

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  plan for Sunday In her letter Colette suggests leaving from London’s Marylebone station on Sunday morning, getting off the train at Chesham and walking from there to her cottage in Bellingdon, Bucks.

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  your cottage The small country cottage named “Nimmy Not” that Colette and her husband Miles rented was in Bellingdon. Near Chesham, Bucks., it was previously rented by D.H. and Frieda Lawrence.

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  the Ploughshare article “The Logic of Armaments”, January 1917 (B&R C17.02; 5 in Papers 14).

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  my pupils During the autumn of 1916, four students met  weekly with BR at Gordon Square, the home of his brother Frank, to study Principia Mathematica. They were Dorothy Wrinch, Jean Nicod, Victor F. Lenzen, and Wallace Armstrong, according to Lenzen (BRACERS 19053, n.4). An annotation to Letter no. 41 (BRACERS 112973, document 104579AO) in the typescript “Letters to Bertrand Russell from Constance Malleson, 1916–1969”, in RA, indicates that Raphael Demos was also part of the group, but he joined a year later.