BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 20 APR. 1920
BRACERS 19643. 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
20.4.20

My Beloved

Thank you 1000 times for your dear dear letter3 this morning — Bless you my Heart’s life —

If it is fine Sunday we will have a heavenly day. I have been looking up trains — We will meet at Lewes and walk on the downs. Do you remember Lewes platform4 and prison? That was an unforgettable day — O my Love, I love you so deeply — with the fibre of my being —

Am pulling strings about Russia5 — seeing Ministers etc.6 — Don’t know what will come of it —

I did understand what you meant over the phone.

Perhaps Sunday night we shall want to stay together either at Lewes or in town — If you think that possible, consider it — It needn’t be settled till Sunday evening.

No new developments about C.A.7 All my love, Heart’s Comrade8 — Oh I do love you —

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200636.

• 2

  [envelope] Miss Colette O’Niel | c/o F. Forbes-Robertson Esq | “Mice and Men” Co. | St. Leonards | Sussex Pmk: BATTERSEA S.W.11. | 1.15 PM | 20 APR 20

• 3

  your dear letter Not extant.

• 4

  remember Lewes platform For information on this significant event, see BRACERS 19368, n.8.

• 5

  strings about Russia BR hoped to travel there. He did visit in May until near the end of June.

• 6

  seeing Ministers etc. On this date BR wrote Lady Ottoline that, “If our Government gives me permission, I shall have to get visas from the Consulates of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Esthonia, each of which will take ages” (Selected Letters, 2: #336).

• 7

  C.A. (Reginald) Clifford Allen (1889–1939). What might be new developments for C.A. are unknown, but he did accompany BR to Russia and fell ill. For information on him, see BRACERS 19046, n.7.

• 8

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