BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [19 FEB. 1920]
BRACERS 19618. 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^, 2
Thursday mg3

Beloved

Thank you for your letter — yes, this weather is divine4 — C.A.5 and I sit out in Battersea Park — one creeps back to life after winter deadness. Tchehov’s letters6 are most interesting — he is a very lovable man. I read a pleasant light book 6 red months in Russia by Louise Bryant7 — pro-Bolshevik, in spite of title. I am glad you are getting on with your writing — How does you acting go?

Goodbye Beloved — All my heart is yours my loved one —

B

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  [document] Document 200611.

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  [envelope] Miss Colette O’Niel | c/o F. Forbes-Robertson Esq | “Mice and Men” Co. | Wellington | Salop. Pmk: BATTERSEA S.W.11 | 3.30 PM | 19 FEB | 20 | 7

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

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  this weather is divine The Times reported the weather as “Spring in Winter: Thermometer Over 60 Degrees”, The Times, 19 Feb. 1920, p. 14.

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  C.A. (Reginald) Clifford Allen (1889–1939). For information on him, see BRACERS 19046, n.7.

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  Tchehov’s letters In her letter on 11 February (BRACERS 113192), Colette wrote that she was “getting the Tchekov letters to read”. Presumably the book was Letters of Anton Tchehov to His Family and Friends (London: Chatto and Windus, 1920).

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  6 red months in Russia by Louise Bryant Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer’s Account of Russia before and during the Proletarian Dictatorship (New York: George H. Doran, 1918).