BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [4 APR.] 1920
BRACERS 19640. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<letterhead>
Hotel d’Orient
Barcelone1
Easter Sunday 19202

My Darling

I have had no letters from you here3 except one forwarded from Battersea enclosing 2 unposted letters.4 I hope you are not angry with me —

My lectures here finished5 this morning and I am off to Majorca for 2 or 3 days — very tired and not very well — I have been very unhappy here — I don’t know how to go on living — It all seems purposeless and futile without you — I hope to be home Monday or Tuesday of next week — I will let Allen6 know by telegram. — My Dear One I can’t live without you — Bless you Beloved —

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200633.

• 2

  [date] Easter Sunday fell on 4 April in 1920.

• 3

  no letters from you here On 31 March 1920 (BRACERS 113203), Colette wrote that his letter of 21 March had frozen her and she had been unable to write to him since. What letter BR is referring to here is thus unclear.

• 4

  2 unposted letters BR had acknowledged receiving numbers 38 and 40, from their numbered sequence of literary letters, in his letter of 31 March (BRACERS 19641), and he returned them to her in that letter. This reference to “unposted” letters does not refer to her series published in the English Review. There are no numbers to match these numbers in the series although there are 56 letters in total. For more information on the English Review letters, see BRACERS 19580, n.3. For more information on their literary letters project, see BRACERS 19585, n.6.

• 5

  lectures here finished BR had lectured on “Matter and Mind — the System of Logical Atomism” at the Institute of Catalan Studies in Barcelona. The syllabus for one course is reproduced as Appendix III.3 in Papers 9.

• 6

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