BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [7 DEC. 1916]
BRACERS 19087. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<London>
Thurs.1^, 2

My Dearest Darling

It was a comfort to get your little note3 this morning. I wrote you such a dreadful letter last night, I have been ashamed ever since. Waiting here for a chance to see C.A.4 has got on my nerves. Now it seems I am to go tonight and see him tomorrow morning. I shall come back here for an hour tomorrow afternoon, so you can write here once more — then to Garsington.5 I want the quiet of the country — here the telephone bell rings every 5 minutes with some tiresome fuss, and one can’t think or write properly. And my nerves are utterly worn out.

Dearest loved one, my love is with you every moment — it is prisoned in weariness and pain at this time, but it will soon break through again and be triumphant and happy — quiet, and steady work, will make all well — My dear dear dear one, I send you my heart and all my love and yearning.

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200056.

• 2

  [date] Colette wrote “Thurs. 7 Dec. 1916” on the letter.

• 3

  your little note Of 5 December 1916 (BRACERS 112975).

• 4

  C.A. (Reginald) Clifford Allen (1889–1939). For further information on him, see BRACERS 19046, n.7.

• 5

  Garsington Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the country home of Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell.