BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 5 DEC. 1919
BRACERS 19591. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

Hotel Bellevue
The Hague
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70, Overstrand Mansions,
Prince of Wales Road,
Battersea, S.W.1^, 2
5 Dec. 19

My Darling Love

Here I am after an extraordinarily good crossing3 — bright sun, so warm one could sit on deck without a coat — This hotel is too grand, I shall leave it today if I can find something more suitable — Wittgenstein4 has not yet arrived — but will be here quite soon I expect —

It is nice to see foreign parts once more after all this time.5

Lynton6 on 22nd — what a joy it will be, my lovely one, my Heart’s Life — All love —

B

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  [document] Document 200581.

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  [envelope] Colette much later placed this letter in a plain white envelope (document 200580) on which she wrote “From The Hague 5 Dec 1919”.

• 3

  crossing He had crossed the English Channel to Holland.

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  Wittgenstein Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), eminent philosopher and former student of BR’s.

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  after all this time This was BR’s first trip abroad since his trip to the United States in the spring of 1914.

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  Lynton They were going to spend the Christmas season there with Clifford Allen as they had the previous year.