BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [19 OCT. 1916]
BRACERS 19060. AL. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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57 Gordon Square1
W.C.
Thurs. night2

My darling Colette

All day I wanted to write but I have been kept rushing about. I am creeping back into life. Please please don’t think anything has been the matter except exhaustion. Tomorrow I shall be less tired and I shall be a human being again. There are oceans of things I want to talk about — I will come at 1:30. — I hate that you should feel as if anything were the matter except that I wanted rest — when I am not ill I love to fill my days quite full, but when one is overdone one loses the power of enjoyment. But now that I have had my teeth done3 I shall be gay again!  I feel it is shameful.

Goodnight my Darling, my Beloved. I love you, my lovely one.

• 1

  [document] Document 200026.

• 2

  [date] Colette wrote “19 Oct. 1916” on the letter.

• 3

  my teeth done He had been suffering from toothache and had had a tooth extracted. See his letter of 18 October 1916, BRACERS 19059.