BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [23 SEPT. 1919]
BRACERS 19568. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

W. Lulworth.1^, 2
Tuesday3

My Darling Love

Your telegram4 which came this morning decided me to wait till you have seen Bennett5 — I long to have you here — but I was afraid of Mrs. Watts’s6 temper — however, if you are nice to her when you come that will be all right! I enclose trains — please let me know which you will take and I will be at the station, unless you take the 9.30 in which case only a motor will meet you. So better take the 12.30 — Oh I do hope you can come7 —

I wonder if you saw Cat and Fiddle and found out what had happened to it8 — I am all prickles with longing for you — distraught and half wild — but your arms will make me happy — O my Beloved I do ache for you.

B

Trains.
Waterloo  9.30  12.30  2.30  4.30  6.30
Wool        1.9           4.10      6.36       8.0      10.8

• 1

  [document] Document 200555.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. Pmk: WEST LULWORTH | 23 SP | 19

• 3

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

• 4

  Your telegram Stamped 22 September 1919, it reads “Do not know plan till I see Bennett Tuesday evening” (BRACERS 107494).

• 5

  Bennett Arnold Bennett (1867–1931). For information on him, see BRACERS 19565, n.2.

• 6

  Mrs. Watts’s Mrs. Watts either cleaned, cooked, or did both.

• 7

  Oh I do hope you can come To visit him at Newlands Farm. Colette did, leaving for it on 24 September 1919.

• 8

  Cat and Fiddle ... what had happened to it A pub near Buxton where they had vacationed. For further information, see BRACERS 19065, n.5.