BRACERS Record Detail for 19214
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"Tuesday I was delighted my Darling to get your telegram today—as well as yesterday's."
This is sheet 2 of a letter which began the previous day, document .200193, record 19213. Both documents are written on the same blue paper using the same ink. This letter has no salutation. BR posted them together.
BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [18 SEPT. 1917]
BRACERS 19214. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell
I was delighted my Darling to get your telegram today4 — as well as yesterday’s.5 I am glad things have been so delightful and successful — it is splendid. I wish I could have written yesterday or could write a proper letter today but Mrs Hobhouse6 is in town and there is a fuss at the office7 and I haven’t a moment — Do write when you can — I long for a letter more than I can say — All my love —
B
Notes
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[document] Document 200194. This is page two of a letter which begins with document 200193, BRACERS 19213. Both pages are on the same blue paper and written with the same ink. This page has no salutation. BR did write to Colette yesterday — the first part of this letter — but did not post it.
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[envelope] Miss Colette O’Niel | 33 All Saints’ Road | Stanns | Blackpool. <“Blackpool” is lined out in pencil.> Pmk: LONDON.W.C| 5. 15 PM | SEP 18 17B
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[date] Colette wrote “18 Sept 1917” on the letter.
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your telegram today Her telegram of 18 September 1917 (BRACERS 107343) from Blackpool where she was filming Hindle Wakes.
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yesterday’s This telegram is not extant.
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Mrs Hobhouse Margaret Heyworth Hobhouse (1854–1921), wife of Henry Hobhouse (1854–1937), M.P. Mrs. Hobhouse was trying to gain release for the absolutists — she and BR worked together in this endeavour. A letter written by BR was published in the New Statesman under her name on 9 June 1917 (B&R C17.33) and BR also wrote the first chapter of her pamphlet “I Appeal unto Caesar”, first published in July 1917 (B&R B7; 52 in Papers 14).
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the office Of the No-Conscription Fellowship. BR was Acting Chair during 1917.