BR TO OTTOLINE MORRELL, 4 NOV. 1911
BRACERS 17331. Morrell papers #244, Texas
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My Darling Love

Your dear letter has just come. You really ought not to worry about being tired when I come — of course I wish you were stronger, but I know it is all right underneath when you are tired, and I think you give more than you have any idea of, even on the days when you are least outwardly expressive. I do hope you won’t be very tired and miserable at Oxford. You shouldn’t have reproached yourself about the Lausanne — it was entirely my fault, and no harm came of it. You mustn’t feel responsible for my trains — it is my business, and I should be sorry to have you burdened with it. I have never missed a train after leaving you, tho’ I have had to get in after they had started. — Margaret Warren is a trial to you, isn’t she? Those loud colourless people are very wearing. I am glad Dora was nice. — What you say about your furnishing for me is so dear of you — I love having you do it, and I shall love the place because you have done it.

I was tired too yesterday — I was short of sleep, and had an attack (very slight) of diarrhea coming on — but I have got some stuff to stop it. I was so sleepy reading my paper last night that I kept losing the place — but I woke up when the discussion began. We had a better discussion than at the Aristotelian. 3 ladies turned up unexpectedly but said nothing. A parson and an h-less cockney provided comic relief. All the other young men here are realists, like Moore and me, but I discovered yesterday that in the lower strata older views are still embedded. — Today I have mountains of proof, and Miss Silcox. After a long sleep I feel very stupid. Forgive this very dull scrap. — I have tea with Miss Harrison tomorrow and I hear Russell was asked to meet me but refused. I wonder why?

Your
Lytton —3

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  [document] Document 000244. Proofread against a colour scan of the original.

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  [envelope] A circled “244”. The Lady Ottoline Morrell | Black Hall | Oxford. Pmk: CAMBRIDGE | 2. PM NO 4 | 11 | 5

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  Lytton— In replying to this letter Ottoline commented “Darling so <?> Lytton!” (4 Nov. 1911, RA1 710.081535). BR signed his letter to her of 27 June 1911 (BRACERS 17211) in the same way.