BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 1 JULY 1919
BRACERS 19494. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

Newlands Farm,
West Lulworth, Dorset.1
1 July 1919.

My Darling Love

Your letter from Cox Green and your telegram of yesterday2 both came this morning — thank you for them, my Dearest. You say nothing about your prospective job — I suppose the interview was postponed —

As to plans: as you know, I have to be in town July 113 — it seems hardly worth while for you to take that long journey down here for only a night or two — if I came up on the 10th, could we be together either at the Attic4 or at Bury Str?5 In the case of Bury Str; you could tell Mrs Saich6 I was coming for a night and would she put it in order — Then on the 12th (Sat.) we can go to Ashford7 for a week if you are free — if you are not I will stay in town till Monday if we can be together — Dear Heart’s Life, I do long to hold you in my arms and surround you with love and soar into the heights with you — There is so much pent up within me that longs to give itself to you — and I long for your love — you were so divine when you were here — please wire about plans as soon as you can.

Please ask C.A.8 to send me Clutton Brock’s book on the Kingdom of Heaven, and my review of it in the Athenaeum,9 as soon as possible (better phone to him) — there is a correspondence about it and I have to write an answer. I should like if possible to see reviews in Nation10 and Times Lit. Sup.11 some time —

I wish I could have written to Cox Green but I knew a letter wouldn’t arrive. I daren’t wire much from here as village people talk — My journey back from Southampton passed in a dream of happiness — it wrapped me round and kept my heart warm, and it has never left me.

Post going — Goodbye Beloved — I long for you — I love you, Dearest Darling — A thousand kisses and all my heart —

B.

Let me know about your job —

I sent another letter and the Athenaeum to Bury Str.

• 1

  [document] Document 200482.

• 2

  letter from Cox Green and your telegram of yesterday Not extant. Colette’s mother had a cottage in Cox Green, Berks.

• 3

  July 11 On that date BR delivered his important paper “On Propositions” to the Aristotelian Society (20 in Papers 8).

• 4

  the Attic Colette’s flat at 6 Mecklenburgh Sq. She had left it to move into BR’s Bury Street flat and was now returning to her flat.

• 5

  Bury Str BR’s flat was in Bury Street, 34 Russell Chambers. Colette had rented it since 9 September 1918.

• 6

  Mrs Saich BR’s cleaning lady.

• 7

  Ashford In Shropshire. For further information, see BRACERS 19217, n.4.

• 8

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

• 9

  Clutton Brock’s ... the Athenaeum BR’s review of A. Clutton-Brock’s book, What Is the Kingdom of Heaven? appeared in The Athenaeum on 20 June 1919; his response to the correspondence was printed on 11 July 1919 (B&R C19.19, C19.23; 55a and 55b in Papers 9).

• 10

  reviews in NationThere was no review in The Nation.

• 11

  Times Lit. Sup. BR’s Trinity friend Canon E.W. Barnes anonymously reviewed What Is the Kingdom of Heaven in the TLS, no. 905 (22 May 1919): 276. Barnes’ paragraph on BR begins: “None who have read Mr. Bertrand Russell’s Principles of Social Reconstruction can fail to recognize the strange but intimate affinity between the valuations of life made by the two men.”