BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 2 JAN. 1917
BRACERS 19099. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<London>
Jan. 2. 1917.1^, 2

My Darling

Your dear little letter3 came this morning and brought the warmth of your heart with it. I have loved you more than ever before since our parting on Sunday.4 But I am imprisoned in weariness and in vague doubts and troubles that I must work out alone — and instinct urges me to keep away from all emotions for a time.

I have got to break through to some new kind of thought — I don’t quite know what. Please, please, don’t be unhappy — I shall work through and come back — my inner life is always a succession of winters and summers, but sometimes the winters are very bleak.

Goodbye my dear one.

B.

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  [document] Document 200071.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 43 Bernard Street | Russell Square | W.C. Pmk: LONDON W | 1.15 PM | JAN 2 17B

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  dear little letter Her letter written on New Year’s Day (BRACERS 112989).

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  our parting on Sunday 31 December 1916, New Year’s Eve.