BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [11 NOV. 1917]
BRACERS 19241. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Sunday mg.3

My Darling Love

What a beautiful letter4 you put into my hand last night. I was so surprised to find you on the door-step that I didn’t recover my wits till you had hopped into the taxi and gone — I was seeing off Demos,5 my Greek pupil, who made his living as a waiter when he was an undergraduate at Harvard — a man I have a great affection for. He wants to go and fight for Greece — oh the pity of it —

I am afraid you have not been happy, from your letter — Till last night I was utterly immersed in N.C.F.6 It wasn’t I who rang the bell yesterday evening.

Yes, Monday I am free for dinner. Let me know what time to call for you.

Now I am off to Woolwich to see some documents on syndicalism and anarchism.7

Goodbye till tomorrow my Darling. All my love, Beloved —

B

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  [document] Document 200229.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | W.C.1. Pmk: LONDON. W.C. | 1 15 AM | NOV 12 17A

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  [date] Colette wrote “11th Nov 1917” on the letter.

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  beautiful letter Her letter of 10 November 1917 (BRACERS 113089).

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  Demos Raphael Demos (1892–1968), who eventually returned to Harvard where he taught philosophy for the rest of his career.

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  N.C.F. No-Conscription Fellowship.

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  Woolwich … documents on syndicalism and anarchism BR’s contract for Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism had been signed 11 October 1917. It is not known what collection of political documents he would research in at Woolwich in Greenwich. Woolwich had vigorous organized labour and education movements. See Walter T. Davis and William B. Neville, eds., The History of the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society, Ltd. ([Woolwich: Pioneer Press, 1922]).