BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 25 JUNE 1920
BRACERS 19664. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<letterhead>
Hotel Continental
Stockholm1^, 2
25 June 1920

My Darling Love

I reached here yesterday and am held up for a day or two but I hope I shall get home about the same time as you get this letter. I left C.A.3 at Reval, in a nursing home, out of danger. Probably he can come home in about 3 weeks. He very nearly died.

I loathed the Bolsheviks and their régime. I think there is less liberty in modern Russia than has ever existed anywhere before. I see their justification and the way war has brought evil, but it is unspeakably horrible. I was utterly miserable there — Of course there is a great deal to be said in their favour, but I pray God I may never see any of them again. I felt too crushed and too afraid of the ubiquitous spies to write anything while I was there. I must begin now.

It will be divine to see you again, my Heart’s Comrade.4 Bless you, Beloved —

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200667.

• 2

  [envelope] Miss Colette O’Niel | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. Pmk: LONDON E.C. | 1.15 AM | 2 JY | 20 | XM

• 3

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

• 4

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