BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [13 DEC. 1918]
BRACERS 19399. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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The Manor House
Garsington
Oxford1^, 2^,
Friday.3

My dearest Darling

I got your dear letter and telegram this morning — I telegraphed at once to the address you gave but the telegraph came back “not known” so I sent it again. I will come tomorrow4 about 2.30 and stay as long as I am allowed to. I don’t know when your operation is to be but I half guess from your telegram that it is on Sunday though that seems unlikely.

Won’t it be divine to be by the sea,5 with the wind and the noise of waves on the rocks, and sea-gulls crying and sweeping through the air in great beautiful curves — And perhaps “peace will come dropping slow”.6 I do long for peace.

Your letter this morning was such a dear dear letter —

Good luck and all my love. Must stop.

B.

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  [document] Document 200389.

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  [envelope] Miss O’Niel | 20 Endsleigh Gardens | LONDON N.W. Pmk: GARS | 13 DE | 18 | ORD

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  [date] The date is taken from the envelope’s postmark.

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  come tomorrow To the nursing home where she was having an abortion.

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  by the sea They were going to Lynton, Devon for Christmas.

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  “peace will come dropping slow” From W.B. Yeats’ poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”. The correct quotation is “peace comes dropping slow”.