BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [17 JAN. 1920]
BRACERS 19603. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<Battersea?>
Sat. evg.1^, 2^,3

My Beloved

Thank you for your little letter. I am sorry too that Miss Oldroyd hadn’t done your typing as I am longing to see it. I am sorry you have to have such a beastly weekend.4 It sounds too dreadful —

Today I wrote a review of Donald Hankey (Nation) and an article for Clarté.5

Miss Black6 has decided to come to London for 2 nights to see if we can adjust our differences. She arrives tonight and goes Monday — I don’t know what will come of it.

Tomorrow night I dine with Ottoline7 in Chelsea —

My Heart’s Life I do love you — I keep thinking of you every minute — wondering where you are and what your mood is, wishing I could be more use to you — I send you 1000 tender thoughts and all my heart, Beloved —

B

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  [document] Document 200596.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | W.C.1. Pmk: LONDON S.W.11. | 2.15 PM | 18 JAN

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  [date] The date is taken from the day (“Sat.”) plus the envelope’s postmark.

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  beastly weekend She was spending the weekend at Great Tew Vicarage where her husband Miles’ uncle was the parson (BRACERS 113184).

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  review of Donald Hankey (Nation) and an article for Clarté “A Product of the Environment”, a review of The Letters of Donald Hankey, “A Student in Arms”, Ed. Miller, ed., The Nation, London, 26 (20 March 1920): 866, 868 (B&R C20.08; 28 in Papers 15); “La Civilisation et la lutte des classes”, Clarté, Paris, no. 11 (21 Feb. 1920): 1 (B&R C20.05; 25 in Papers 15).

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  Miss Black Dora Black (1894–1986). She and BR were married from 1921 until 1935. For more information on her, see BRACERS 19506, n.3. With this letter is a telegram dated 17 January from Black in Paris (BRACERS 19604). She was arriving in the evening and would phone.

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  Ottoline Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938). For information on her, see BRACERS 19077, n.5.