BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [26 NOV. 1917]
BRACERS 19249. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

Monday mg.1^, 2

My Darling loved one

It is hateful to think of you “tired and depressed”3 — I know I can do nothing to make you less so, and yet it makes me long just to be with you — I wouldn’t try to talk about you, but would just try to make you feel that you are loved.

I am free from seven o’clock onwards both this evening and tomorrow evening — I don’t suppose you are — but if you are, ring me up between 1.30 and 2.30 today. I long to see you, so do manage it if you can.

I shall be back from Leicester Thursday — either that day or Friday I shall probably go to Winchester.4 But whatever happens nothing need interfere with the Studio5 when it is ready. I feel now I must see you before that, just to be with you, and keep alive a feeling of comradeship.

When you are triumphant, there are limitations to my love, but when you are not there are none, and I long for you to be triumphant again.

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200237.

• 2

  [date] Colette wrote “26 Nov. 1917.” on the letter.

• 3

  “tired and depressed” In her letter of 24 November, she has written she was “a bit tired and depressed” (BRACERS 113095).

• 4

  Leicester Thursday... go to Winchester BR went to Leicester on 28 November 1917 to speak at a UDC meeting, and he spoke the following day in Winchester to an unspecified audience.

• 5

  the Studio The name given to the place that BR and Colette had rented in Soho. For further information on it, see BRACERS 19240, n.9.