BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [20 NOV. 1917]
BRACERS 19246. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Tuesday1^, 2^, 3

My Beloved

Your little letter yesterday4 morning was a joy to get, but I hate to think of your living in a “cold common hell” and my doing so little to help you in it — I must win back your confidence — I will, with time. I do want your life to be full and to bring the things that you really care for — I am not against anything that brings you self-expression, however I may behave at moments — I long to share your unhappiness.

I loved Sunday and all our talk5 and the strange quiet of the day.

Darling I long for you to be back6 and for the moment when we can be really together7 — I keep on thinking of it — My love goes out freely now to you, and I want you to feel it. Do tell me all you can about yourself. Goodnight my heart’s Love —

B

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  [document] Document 200234.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | W.C.1. Pmk: LONDON W.C. | 8.15 PM | NOV  20 17C

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  [date] Colette wrote “20 Nov. 1917” on the letter.

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  little letter yesterday Her letter of 19 November 1917 (BRACERS 113092).

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  I loved Sunday and all our talk Colette had written on 19 November of their walk in the Thames River Valley: “I loved the deserted aspect it had, the winter silence, the motionless sky”. They had walked from Windsor to Virginia Water.

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  to be back She had gone to Torquay to reshoot a single scene for the film Hindle Wakes.

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  be really together In the Studio, which was being readied for them. For information on it, see BRACERS 19240, n.9.