BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [21 AUG. 1919]
BRACERS 19536. 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
Thursday3

My dear dear Love

Your second telegram4 yesterday did warm my heart most beautifully — thank you for it. I am so longing to be with you that for the present I have no joy in this place5 — it is still beautiful but my heart is elsewhere — I keep wondering what has made you unhappy, longing to know, and to comfort you if I can. There is no letter from you this morning. This is my last letter before we meet — 1.10 Waterloo Saturday. O my Beloved, the joy of being with you again — there is no full life for me but with you — it is only with you that all my being vibrates and feels — I am yours, my Heart’s Comrade,6 yours to all eternity.

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200523.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. Pmk: WEST LULWORTH | 21 AU | 19

• 3

  [date] The date is taken from the envelope’s postmark.

• 4

  Your second telegram The second telegram contained part of the quotation (“aujourd’hui plus que hier et bien moins que demain” [today more than yesterday and much less than tomorrow]), which Colette had had recently engraved on a gold coin for his watch-chain (BRACERS 107489).

• 5

  this place Newlands Farm, West Lulworth.

• 6

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