BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [3 FEB. 1917]
BRACERS 19119. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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My Beloved

Your Thursday letter4 reached me this morning. I was glad to hear. I hardly knew whether you will feel a wish to see me when you get home, or whether you want to work through to some decision of your tangle first. I shall quite understand if you do — but if you would wish to see me, I shall be here till 3.15 tomorrow, and after dinner (from 9 on) on Monday — I go to Oxford in the interval, to talk to Indians5 and sleep at Garsington.6 On Tuesday I go back to Smith,7 as my tenant8 is returning Thursday and the place must be put in order. After that I have a mass of meetings in various places. — The new German submarine move9 is despairing — it makes peace talk hopeless for the moment.

I keep on thinking about you and wondering how things are going with you — my thoughts are full of active love to you my Darling.

B.

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  [document] Document 200092.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 43 Bernard Str. | Russell Square | W.C. | 43 Pmk: LONDON. W.C | 1. 15 PM | FEB3 17B.

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  [date] The date is presumed from the postmarked date on the envelope.

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  Your Thursday letter Not extant.

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  Indians The Oxford Majlis, a debating society founded in 1896 by students from India.

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

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  Smith The butler at Frank Russell’s home at 57 Gordon Square.

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  my tenant Helen Dudley, an American from Chicago, with whom BR had been involved during his 1914 trip to the United States. She had been renting BR’s Bury Street flat and was now returning to it. While she was away BR had been staying at the flat.

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  new German submarine move Germany had announced that it was commencing unrestricted submarine warfare.