BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 26 AUG. 1921
BRACERS 19742. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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70, Overstrand Mansions,
Prince of Wales Road,
Battersea, S.W.1
26 Aug. ’21

Heart’s Comrade2

I have read the letters you left here3 for me — and I understand. I love you eternally, with what is deepest and most burning in me. When my love seems dim it is only because the central fire is not burning brightly. The spirit of our love is safe but I do not know yet what to do about the body of it and I shall not know till after the child4 is born — We will talk about everything Sunday — and I shall hold you in my arms again — Goodbye till then, Beloved.

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200748.

• 2

  Heart’s Comrade For information on the use of this term, see BRACERS 19145, n.12.

• 3

  read the letters you left here Colette by mid-June stopped mailing letters to China as they would not have reached him in time. They were given to BR by Clifford Allen at their Battersea flat.

• 4

  the child John Conrad Russell, born 16 November 1921.