BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 16 JULY 1919
BRACERS 19509. 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
16 July 1919.

My dearest Darling

Your letter3 about Roberts4 was waiting at the P.O. yesterday afternoon — the man is a damned scoundrel — I can’t imagine how anyone can be so utterly heartless and cruel — it makes me more indignant than I can say — Your telegram5 came at breakfast this morning — thank you for it —

I do hope you will get work — These disappointments are enough to drive one wild. It is a thing to set one’s teeth over, as one did over the war — one must swear to emerge still alive at the other end of the tunnel.

It would be divine if you could come here — it grows more and more beautiful — We are just starting for a day’s boating so I must stop. Littlewood6 has been demoralized by me and no longer does any work — My Beloved, my heart is yours, and my thoughts are with you every moment in devotion and tender love.  Bless you, my wonderful one.

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200497.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. Pmk: WEST LULWORTH | 16 JY | 19

• 3

  Your letter Not extant.

• 4

  about Roberts Presumably the director or producer of the unidentified film which Colette had been in some way connected.

• 5

  your telegram Not extant.

• 6

  Littlewood John Edensor Littlewood (1885–1977), mathematician. He and BR shared a farmhouse near Lulworth during the summer of 1919. His “demoralization” by BR is a mystery.