BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 22 JAN. 1919
BRACERS 19419. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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The Manor House
Garsington
Oxford1^, 2
22.1.19

My Darling Love

Your telegram3 this morning was fearfully exciting — I have been hoping for another but none has come so far — It would be lovely if you got that part.4 I hope you will —

It seems a difficult moment for a visit from me. I shall be quite happy anyhow. I will stay at G. Sq.5 if you are too overwhelmed — perhaps you could find out from Elizabeth6 if it suits, if that is best for you — I must come up, to see Hollond7 and Mildred Minturn.8 But I should be quite happy at 57 G.S. I am in a good mood, and prepared to stay wherever I am put!

All goes well with me. Work prospers and spirits good. Good luck to you! Don’t have me on your mind — work first!

All my love, Beloved.

Your
B

• 1

  [document] Document 200409.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 34 Russell Chambers | Bury Street | London W.C.1. Pmk: GARSINGTON | 22 JA | 19 | OXFORD

• 3

  Your telegram The telegram is not extant. However her letter of the same day notes that she has sent him a telegram; the letter goes on to explain that she may be up for an exciting role (BRACERS 113167).

• 4

  got that part Colette was being considered for the role of Roxane in a production of Cyrano de Bergerac with Robert Loraine in the lead role. It opened in Liverpool on 17 February, then went on to Edinburgh, and opened at the Garrick in London at the end of March 1919. She did not get the part.

• 5

  G. Sq. Frank Russell’s home at 57 Gordon Square.

• 6

  Elizabeth Elizabeth Russell (1866–1941), Frank’s wife. For information on her, see BRACERS 19080, n.7.

• 7

  Hollond H.A. (Henry Arthur) Hollond (1884–1974); he had studied classics and law at Cambridge and was a Fellow at Trinity from 1909 until his death. He was Dean of the College from 1922 to 1950 and then Vice-Master until 1955.

• 8

  Mildred Minturn Mildred Minturn Scott (1875–1922). She was one of four sisters, belonging to a rich and distinguished New York family. She first met BR and his wife Alys at Bryn Mawr in 1896 and became friends with them after she moved to Europe. In 1906 she married Arthur Scott, headmaster of a boys’ school in France, and the nephew of C.P. Scott of the Manchester Guardian. Her daughter, Leslie Allison, wrote her biography Mabel Minturn (Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue: Shoreline, 1995). In an earlier letter (BRACERS 19418) BR wrote that he had to see her because she had consumption and was leaving for a sanatorium.