BRACERS Record Detail for 19061
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"One line my beloved to tell you my love is yours absolutely—equally when I can show it and when I can't."
Letter is not signed. Its publication in SLBR omits the cover page addressed in the second person to Colette.
BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [20 OCT. 1916]
BRACERS 19061. AL. McMaster. SLBR 2: #278
Edited by S. Turcon and N. Griffin. Reviewed by K. Blackwell
<Manchester?>
One1, 2 line my Beloved to tell you my love is yours absolutely — equally when I can show it and when I can’t. It is with you always surrounding you like the wind. Believe me — and be happy.
Address c/o Professor George Unwin3 47 Heaton Road Willington Manchester. Please give yours to bearer.
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[document] Document 200027. The page with Unwin’s address and asking for Colette’s was not included in SLBR.
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[date] Colette wrote “20 Oct. 1916” on the verso of a second sheet by BR, which has his request for her address.
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Unwin George Unwin (1870–1925) was Professor of Economic History, University of Manchester. Unwin wrote during the war: “I am still organising lectures for that miscreant, Bertrand Russell” (T.S. Ashton, “Recollection of British Economic Historian”, PSL Quarterly Review, 39 [2013]: 337–52 [at 345]).
