BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [10 NOV. 1916]
BRACERS 19075. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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57 Gordon Square1
W.C.
Friday mg.2

My Beloved

It will be too divine — I long for it. I love you, my dear one.

Sunday to tea. Monday night in Manchester my address is

c/o Prof. Herford,3
5 Parkfield Rd., Withington, Manchester.

On Tuesday, I arrive Miller’s Dale 11.4, Buxton 11.47. Possibly Miller’s Dale may be nearer the Cat and Fiddle4 than Buxton. Your map will tell you. I leave Friday 1.10. — Very tired still, but very happy. No time for a proper letter. Goodbye my Heart, my lovely Joy.

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200042.

• 2

  [date] Colette wrote “10 Nov. 1916” on the letter.

• 3

  Prof. Herford Charles Harold Herford (1853–1931): “his letters and articles in the Manchester Guardian and other journals showed how deeply he was stirred by whatever seemed to him social injustice and political tyrrany” (The Times, 27 April 1931, p. 17). Herford’s wife was German. He chaired BR’s first Manchester lecture (Harold Wild’s diary, 16 Oct. 1916 [https://olioweb.me.uk/echoes/?page_id-432]).

• 4

  Cat and Fiddle An isolated pub on the moors near Buxton, Derbyshire. For information on this pub, see BRACERS 19065, n.5.