BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [18 SEPT. 1919]
BRACERS 19562. 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 Darling Love

I am very sorry about Miles.4 — I hope it is not really serious — I wonder why you decided not to send “In the Stalls”5 to Harrison6 —

When you come, do bring Donne — also any other books it would be nice to read — I am longing for you Beloved —

I am working very hard over my lectures7 — very fit, and getting lots of new ideas — We still bathe every day — the golden weather lasts on and on — I do hope it will last while you are here —

All my love, my dear one, my lovely Joy —

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200549.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. Pmk: WEST LULWORTH | 18 SP | 19

• 3

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

• 4

  Miles Miles Malleson (1888–1969), Colette’s husband. He was ill. For information on him, see BRACERS 19046, n.4.

• 5

  “In the Stalls” A short story she had written. It was not published and pre-publication documents are not extant.

• 6

  Harrison Austin Frederic Harrison (1873–1928), journalist and editor. He became the editor of The English Review in 1909, purchased it in 1915, and sold it in 1923. He had recently published another story by Colette, “The End”, 29 (Sept. 1919): 235–8, with the pseudonym Christine Harte.

• 7

  my lectures “The Analysis of Mind”, a set of sixteen lectures which BR gave at both Dr. Williams’ Library and Morley College in London from October to February 1920. See Appendix III.2 in Papers 9.