BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [1 JUNE 1917]
BRACERS 19170. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<London>
Friday1^, 2^, 3

My Beloved

I am sorry you are suffering so much — you ought never to have run up to the top of King’s Chapel4 — Miles5 ought to have prevented it! Cousens6 is notorious as a boor. — I find the whole world is travelling by that train tomorrow.

Interrupted by I. Goss7 who has talked the whole morning.

Shall look out for you at Peterborough8 (G.N., not G.E.)

My love, my Darling — My thoughts are with you every moment.

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200146.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 5 St. Edwards Passage | Cambridge. Pmk: LONDON.W. | 3.15PM | JUN 1 17B

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  [date] The date is taken from the postmark.

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  sorry you are suffering the ...  top of King’s Chapel Colette had written on 31 May 1917 (BRACERS 113027) that the train had been hot and crowded, she had experienced violent internal pain, and by the time she got to the top of King’s Chapel, Cambridge, she felt dizzy.

• 5

  Miles Miles Malleson, Colette’s husband. For information on him, see BRACERS 19046, n.4.

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  Cousens Colette does not identify Cousens in her letter of 31 May 1917 (BRACERS 113027), calling him only “our university host”. Probably Hilderic Cousens who helped BR with Roads to Freedom (B&R A29). She and Miles were  staying in Cambridge.

• 7

  I. Goss A Goss is mentioned in a letter from Edith Ellis in 1917 (BRACERS 76509).

• 8

  at Peterborough BR met the Mallesons at Peterborough, and they travelled from there to the conference at Leeds.