BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [19 APR. 1917]
BRACERS 19151. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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My Darling Love

A thousand thanks for your letter — I am quite well again, only a little weak and funny3 — but I rather feel as if it would be a mistake to go away for the week-end because I am too much pulled down to have any instinctive desire for it — and so I dread that it might not be a success — the only thing I want to do instinctively is to sit still and read bad novels.

I am terribly disappointed but I can’t help it. And I am rather feeble still so I don’t think it would be wise — Curse it.

The one and only thing you could do for me would be to provide me (from a library or somewhere) with bad novels that are not too sentimental — detective stories etc — One would do —  My Darling I love you always — I hate to be kept away like this. Goodbye my Heart.

B

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  [document] Document 200127.

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  [date] Colette wrote “Thursday 19 April 1917” on the letter.

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  quite well again, only a little weak and funny BR was recovering from influenza.