BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 28 AUG. 1919
BRACERS 19542. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<West Lulworth>
<letterhead>
70, Overstrand Mansions,
Prince of Wales Road,
Battersea, S.W.1
28 August 1919

My Darling Love

I am so glad people are saying nice things about Daphne,2 and you yourself are happier about your parts.3 I feel sure you will be very good in both. — How exciting, your plan of going off with Clare4 — it would be good for you as well as for her — When would you go? I am afraid it would be before I get back from here? I am sure it would be bad for Clare to come here all alone.

O my Dear, my loved one, I do miss you so much and long for you — I am so wonderfully happy deep down inside me — I long to hold you in my arms — I seem to hear your voice at all odd times — There seems no end to the growth of love — O my Dear, my Dear, I love you —

B

Please tell Clare the rent, including Mrs Watts’s5 wages, would be 2½ guineas a week — available from Sp. 29 for 2 or 3 weeks, or from Oct. 1, as desired.

• 1

  [document] Document 200529.

• 2

  Daphne The role she was playing in Young Heaven, a play by her husband, Miles Malleson; it was staged on 8 September 1919 in Oxford.

• 3

  your parts In Young Heaven and The Trojan Women.

• 4

  Clare Clare Annesley (1893–1980), Colette’s sister.

• 5

  Mrs Watts She cleaned, or cooked, or both, at Newlands Farm.