BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [14 JUNE 1919]
BRACERS 19488. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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70, Overstrand Mansions,
Prince of Wales Road,
Battersea, S.W.
Sat. night.1^, 2^, 3

My Darling

I have had no letter from you — it seems an age since I saw you, though it was only the day before yesterday —

C.A.4 is gone and I feel very lonely — Tomorrow I have to go to the Whiteheads5 for the day, which I hate. — I have finished my lecture for next Tuesday6 — it is the best yet, and gets better as it goes on — I wish you had been willing to hear it all — it is much easier to understand than any of the others —

Do you think the day will come when you will allow me to show passionate love7 once more? You said the other day that you didn’t know how to repulse people, but you always know how to repulse me —

Goodnight —

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200476.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 34 Russell Chambers | Bury Street | W.C.1. Pmk: | 11.55 PM | 15 JUN 19

• 3

  [date] The date is assigned by combining “Saturday” with the envelope’s postmark.

• 4

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

• 5

  the Whiteheads Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) and his wife, Evelyn. For further information, see BRACERS 19080, n.6.

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  my lecture for next Tuesday For “The Analysis of Mind” lecture series; the first lecture was given on 6 May 1919 at Dr. Williams Library in London. The lecture series of eight concluded on 24 June. The lecture “next Tuesday” would have been the seventh, “Pleasure, Pain and Desire”, according to the syllabus (App. III in Papers 9). The lecture title is not to be found in The Analysis of Mind.

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  show passionate love Colette had been in a “monastic mood” since late December 1918.