BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [8 JAN. 1918]
BRACERS 19267. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<London>
Tuesday.1^, 2^, 3

My dearest Darling

I hate the thought of you getting such beastly letters from me at Falmouth4 — I have now said everything beastly that I had to say.

My Beloved, I do love you, deeply, with all my heart — I feel sure we can keep the sense of nearness. It is a cursed necessity for me to say out disagreeable things — otherwise they grow and grow — But as soon as I have said them I long to make you happy and make you know the strength of my love —

Dear one, I long for you to be back — Let me know by telegram as soon as you know when you will be free — Let us first meet when you are free to come to the Studio5 — there is too much that is intense for any other sort of meeting — I long with all my soul to be in your arms and feel your love and find joy and peace. Goodbye my Heart —

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200254.

• 2

  [envelope] Miss Colette O’Niel | Royal Hotel | Falmouth | Cornwall. Pmk: LONDON. W.C | 3.15 PM | 8 JAN 18

• 3

  [date] The date is taken from the postmark.

• 4

  Falmouth She was there to act in the film The Admirable Crichton.

• 5

  the Studio The name given to the place that they had rented on the ground floor at 5 Fitzroy Street. For further information on it, see BRACERS 19247, n.4.