BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [26 NOV. 1918]
BRACERS 19390. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<London>
Tuesday1^, 2^, 3

My Darling Love

Your letter this morning was so lovely that I wouldn’ta talk about it at G. S.4 in everybody’s hearing — Thank you for it my Cherub.

I wonder if you are wise not to do the whole of that scene.5

I enclose £3.10, being 10/–6  allowance and £3 for boots,7 which must be strong, waterproof, and seeming a little too big for you, because feet swell when one walks much. And they should be worn a bit before we go —

It will be divine.

Take any books you think would be nice to read — Gibbon of course — I should say Shakespeare (the whole of him) — and whatever strikes you as desirable.

Tomorrow I go after lunch8 — Sat. I leave before the post comes and before telegrams are delivered — I shall reach you about 1 on Sat.

It was a heavenly time my Darling.

B.

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  [document] Document 200380.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 34 Russell Chambers | Bury Street | W.C.1. Pmk: LONDON W1 | 8.15 PM | 26 NOV 8C

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  [date] Colette wrote “Tues 26 Nov 1918” on the envelope.

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  G. S. BR’s brother’s home at 57 Gordon Square.

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  the whole of that scene Colette was working on a special performance of Shakespeare’s As You Like It.

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  10/– Ten shillings. A shilling was worth 1/20 of one pound. Shillings were replaced by a new decimal based coinage, first introduced in 1971. Shillings were gradually phased out over the following two decades.

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  boots For their Christmas vacation at Lynton, Devon.

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  go after lunch To Garsington.

Textual Notes

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  wouldn’t corrected from wuldn’t