BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [30 JULY 1919]
BRACERS 19512. 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
Wednesday3

My Beloved

This place4 is sadly lifeless without you — When I woke this morning I stretched out my hands instinctively to where you should have been, and it was a shock to find your place empty — Dearest Love I do hope you are as happy as you can be without work — I feel your spirit in my heart’s core and am full of deep joy — C.A.5 comes Sat. night — Nothing has happened — I think of you every moment and miss you most terribly — You were wonderful, most wonderful, my Heart’s Comrade.6 I kiss your dear eyes and send you a hundred thousand tender thoughts.

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200500.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. Pmk: WEST LULWORTH | 30 JY | 19

• 3

  [date] Colette wrote“30 July 1919” on the envelope.

• 4

  This place Newlands Farm in Lulworth. BR was renting it for the summer with J.E. Littlewood.

• 5

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

• 6

  Heart’s Comrade  For information on the use of this term, see BRACERS 19145, n.12.