BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 10 APR. 1920
BRACERS 19642. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

Soller, Majorca1
April 10, 19202

My Beloved

I keep thinking of you and wondering what you are doing and feeling — This place is very beautiful — It has a cove just like Lulworth,3 with orange and lemon groves up the valley — enormous high hills all round, covered first with olives then with ilex and then bare rock, which turns an extraordinary pink colour with sunset. Yesterday I went up a mountain called Puig Mayor, higher than any in the British Isles — very splendid — Every corner is fragrant with orange blossom and rosemary and hosts of flowers I don’t know — The inn is humble but the inn-keeper informed me with the air of a Spanish Don that all he has is mine and I may pick the oranges off the trees in his garden whenever I like —

I was ill and unhappy in Barcelona4 but am now well and enjoying the beauty of the place — I long for you. I shall be home on Saturday5 — I dream about you every night — I love you, my dear one, with all my heart and soul. Goodbye —

B —

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  [document] Document 200635.

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  April 10, 1920 BR and Dora had left Barcelona on 4 April 1920, expecting to only spend a few days in Majorca. Colette sent him a telegram (BRACERS 107500), stamped 12 April 1920, welcoming him back home.

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  Lulworth BR and J.E. Littlewood had rented a farmhouse near Lulworth during the summer of 1919.

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  in Barcelona BR had been in Barcelona lecturing on “Matter and Mind” at the Institute of Catalan Studies.

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  home on Saturday On 17 April 1920. He had planned on breaking the journey home with a stop in Cahors, France to visit Jean Nicod.