BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [23 MAR. 1920]
BRACERS 19638. 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
Tuesday2

Beloved

It wasn’t my cold that kept me from you — I only got my endorsement at 4 yesterday, and  my Spanish visa had to be got at 10.30 this morning so it was absolutely impossible — I have to go tonight as the connection in Paris is doubtful otherwise.

My Heart’s Comrade3 I love you and you are the light and glory of my world — But I am unhappy because you don’t love me as you did —

Enclosed is more depressed4 than I feel now — but it was what I felt when I wrote —

Bless you my Angel my lovely Darling my morning Joy.

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200631.

• 2

  [date] The date is taken from an envelope in which Colette placed this letter together with his letter of 21 March (BRACERS 19637). On it she wrote “21 and 23 March 1920 pre-Barcelona”.

• 3

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

• 4

  Enclosed is more depressed BR refers to the letter he wrote on 21 March 1920 (BRACERS 19637), which he must have enclosed with the current letter.