BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [2 MAR. 1919]
BRACERS 19441. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Garsington Manor
Oxford1
Sunday2

My Darling

I was glad of your telegram3 last night — No letter this morning so I suppose I shan’t get one till Tuesday which seems a long time.

I have just had a p.c. from Wittgenstein,4 who is a prisoner in Italy. It makes me very happy to know he is still alive. He says he has done lots of logical work and is longing to talk about it with me.

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200431.

• 2

  [date] Colette wrote “2 March 19” on the letter; she struck out her earlier date of 4 March. The date is written twice, but not in BR’s hand.

• 3

  your telegram There is a telegram (BRACERS 107484), but it is date stamped 3 March 1919.

• 4

  p.c. from Wittgenstein Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher. A student of BR’s at Cambridge, he had left to work alone in Norway and then joined the Austrian army in 1914. BR quotes the postcard (BRACERS 58623) in full in a letter he wrote to Colette two days later (BRACERS 19443). Wittgenstein’s postcard is dated 9 February 1919. It is in Brian McGuinness, ed., Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911–1951 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), p. 87. BR replied next day (ibid.).