BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 20 MAY 1919
BRACERS 19478. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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20 May ’191^, 2

My Lovely Darling

Thank you 1000 times for the wonderful flowers — the lilies and beech-leaves remind me of the ones you sent from Brighton this time last year — and the almost black tulips are astonishingly splendid — Allen3 is out or would send thanks for his — and thank you for the bell too — I don’t think it is horrid at all — you are angelic —

I hope you will get good out of Paris4 — It will be a great refreshment to get abroad — I wonder how long you will stay — I am very glad you are going.

My work goes splendidly — I have done another article for the Dial,5 much better than the one I did before. And my philosophy prospers — I am hungry for you — but I force the pain to turn to energy for work —

Goodbye Beloved —

B.

I was 47 the day before yesterday.

• 1

  [document] Document 200466.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 34 Russell Chambers | Bury Street | W.C.1. Pmk: LONDON W.C. | 1.15 AM | 21 MAY 19

• 3

  Allen (Reginald) Clifford Allen (1889–1939). For information on him, see BRACERS 19046, n.7.

• 4

  out of Paris Colette’s  mother, Priscilla, was taking her there for a much needed holiday (BRACERS 19481). Nothing more is known as Colette’s letters are not extant for this period.

• 5

  another article for the Dial “Economic Unity and Political Division”, The Dial 66 (28 June 1919) had appeared as “New Powers and Old Frontiers” earlier in The Nation 25 (7 June 1919; B&R C19.18; 11 in Papers 15).