BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [7 JULY 1919]
BRACERS 19500. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<West Lulworth>
<letterhead>
70, Overstrand Mansions,
Prince of Wales Road,
Battersea, S.W.1^, 2
Monday 2nd letter.3

Beloved

It was a horrid letter I sent you4 earlier today — Dear Heart I love you and ache for you — I can’t bear being away from you — I could come up Wed. if it suited you — I am too impatient to be with you to be able to settle to work. Dear loved one this is only one line to tell you of my love, and how I long for you to be successful about work and how I feel with you in that —

But I am sure it would be better to be less utterly absorbed in it, and to force yourself into other thoughts and occupations at times — it would help you I believe in the end —

My Heart’s Life I love you —

Your
B

No wire yet

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  [document] Document 200488.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. Pmk: WEST LULWORTH | 7 JY | 19

• 3

  [date] Colette wrote “7 July 1919 [I]” on the envelope.

• 4

  a horrid letter I sent you It is not clear which letter BR is referring to. Possibly it was the letter which was written on Sunday night (BRACERS 19501).