BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [20 NOV. 1918]
BRACERS 19388. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<Abinger Common>

My Darling1^, 2^, 3

All the forgiveness wanted is the other way — I must have been odious — I will try to avoid that sort of thing in future — You are so forbearing to all my beastly ways —

C.A.4 full of life — doesn’t want anybody except us for Xmas — would prefer Linton,5 so if you have no job we might go there and stay longer than a week —

All love my dearest Darling — I hate to be odious but it won’t go on — I will spend the middles of weeks here or at Garsington6 and then I shall grow decent again.

Bless you my Beloved —

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200378.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 34 Russell Chambers | Bury Street | London W.C.1. Pmk: ABINGER COMMON | 8 | NOV 20 | 18

• 3

  [date] Colette wrote “20 Nov 1918” on the letter.

• 4

  C.A. (Reginald) Clifford Allen (1889–1939). For information on him, see BRACERS 19046, n.7. He was staying at Abinger Common to recover his health which had been damaged by his imprisonment during the war.

• 5

  Linton  Lynton, Devon. The threesome spent Christmas there that year and the following year. Colette went on her own in 1920, the year that BR was in China.

• 6

  Garsington Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the county home of Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell.