BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [22 APR. 1920]
BRACERS 19645. 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
Thursday3

My Darling Love

Thank you for your dear letter this morning. I enclose trains. If the train arriving 4.50 at Buxton is too late for you, we can come up to London — there are hotels here as well as at Lewes, if we feel in that mood — Please let me know if 4.50 is time enough —

C.A.4 and friends go Tuesday5 — D.V. I shall go with them — but all is uncertain still.

Great haste — My dearest Darling, my Heart’s Life, I love you, love you, love you —

B

Lewes6 dep. 8.53 a.m.
Victoria arr. 10.20
St. Pancras dp. 12.15
Buxton arr. 4.50 / Restaurant car. change at Miller’s Dale.

If that is too late at Buxton, it is impossible to stay at Lewes. The train to take is

St. Pancras 10.15
Buxton 2.15 / as above

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  [document] Document 200638.

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  [envelope] Miss Colette O’Niel | c/o F. Forbes Robertson Esq | “Mice and Men” Co. | St. Leonards | Sussex. Pmk: BATTERSEA S.W.11. | 11.15 AM | 22 APR 20

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  [date] The date is taken from the envelope’s postmark plus the letter’s “Thursday”.

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

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  C.A. and friends go Tuesday To Russia, 27 April 1920, sailing from Newcastle. BR had been interviewed the previous day by H.A.L. Fisher, who recommended that BR be allowed to accompany the British Labour Delegation to Russia. Fisher, President of the Board of Education, acted on behalf of the Cabinet (Papers 15: xxi).

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  Lewes They did end up spending the day of 25 April walking in Sussex, although they spent the night in London.