BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [29 JAN. 1918]
BRACERS 19285. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<London>
Tuesday mg1^, 2

My Darling Love

I am very sorry I am not yet well3 enough for the Studio4 tonight, though quite well enough for dinner. I will call for you at 7 as we arranged — but I must get back here. My nights are too painful as yet — and here I have remedies and comforts which get me through them.

I hoped I should have been quite recovered by now, but tho’ I am much better I can’t yet play tricks with myself —

It is a dammed nuisance — and I hate to give in to the body.

Till tonight Dearest —

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200272.

• 2

  [date] Colette wrote “29.1.18.” on the letter.

• 3

  not yet well BR was suffering from piles.

• 4

  the Studio  The place BR and Colette rented on the ground floor at 5 Fitzroy Street, Soho, London W1. For further information on it, see BRACERS 19247, n.4.