BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 9 APR. 1917
BRACERS 19146. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Monday night 9.4.171

My Beloved

It was an unspeakable joy to get your letter this evening and know that you are here again. I heard the click of the letter box and rushed to the window to see if you had brought the letter yourself but it was Miles’s2 retreating back I saw — I am very glad your 5 days were happy3 — but oh I am glad you are back my dear heart — I do love you, love you, love you. I long to be with you — Yes, let us dine together somewhere tomorrow — unless you suggest something different, I will call for you at 7.15 — I shall be here to lunch so if you prefer some other plan, will you leave a note during the morning or at luncheon time. My dearest Darling it was a lovely letter this evening and I bless you for it.

Goodnight my lovely joy.

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200122.

• 2

  Miles Miles Malleson, Colette’s husband. For further information on him, see BRACERS 19046, n.7.

• 3

  your 5 days were happy In her letter of 9 April 1917 (BRACERS 113005), she wrote that she and Miles had had “a happy time at the cottage” in Bellingdon, near Chesham, Bucks.