BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [3 NOV. 1916]
BRACERS 19071. AL. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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57 Gordon Square1, 2
W.C.

My Beloved

Your letter3 last night was an inexpressible joy.

I wish I could come to lunch but I am lunching with Miss Silcox4 the head-mistress of St. Felix School, a great friend of mine. I start for Birmm.5 at 2.30.

It is so wonderful what you say — about helping to keep alive the love6 between other people.

I haven’t a moment and mustn’t write a real letter. My loved one, my Colette, I love you absolutely — every moment you fill my thoughts — I long to be with you again. — Dearest, Darling, I love you, I love you, I love you.

• 1

  [document] Document 200038.

• 2

  [date] Colette wrote “Friday 3 Nov. 1916” on the letter.

• 3

  Your letter Of 2 November 1916 (BRACERS 112958).

• 4

  Miss Silcox Lucy Silcox (1862–1947). See https://russell.humanities.mcmaster.ca/our-work/collected-letters/general-annotations/#Silcox.

• 5

  Birmm. Birmingham.

• 6

  to keep alive the love The edited version of her letter of 2 November does not contain this sentiment. She does, however, describe a meeting she had with Harold Scott’s wife, who had come to despise him. Harold Scott (1891–1964) was an actor.