BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [9 FEB. 1920]
BRACERS 19612. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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70, Overstrand Mansions,
Prince of Wales Road,
Battersea, S.W.1
Monday night2

Beloved

A 1000 thanks for the really lovely flowers — it was extraordinarily good of you to think of them in the hurry of departure. I wonder how you are enjoying tonight and how the whole tour3 will be. I shall miss you most terribly but I am glad you are gone. I am sure a tour was the thing for you — I hope you will soon get back to your writing.4

My dearest Darling, I love you more than words can say — tenderly and deeply — You are so dear, so dear — Bless you, Heart’s Comrade5 — Through you my world is warm —

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200605.

• 2

  [date] The date is assigned based on the reference to her tour.

• 3

  the whole tour Colette had secured a job with a touring theatre company headed by Frank Forbes Robertson. For further information, see BRACERS 19599, n.6.

• 4

  back to your writing Presumably on the series of letters, “Letters Posted and Unposted,” she was writing for the English Review. For information, see BRACERS 19580, n.3.

• 5

  Heart’s Comrade For information on the use of the term, see BRACERS 19145, n.12.