BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [6 AUG. 1920]
BRACERS 19679. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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70, Overstrand Mansions,
Prince of Wales Road,
Battersea, S.W1
Friday^,2

My Darling Love

So far as I can find out, there is no late train from Portsmouth, and you can’t arrive before 10.30 Sunday morning. But my Bradshaw3 is old so perhaps I’m wrong. I may have to go out early Sunday morning. If there is no late train, please motor up. The thought of seeing you again has got into my blood and makes me unable to sit still for 2 minutes — And if you don’t arrive in the small hours I don’t know if I shall see you.

O my dear it is dreadful leaving you for so long. I don’t know why I ever decided to do such a thing4 — It will be over some day —

It is dreadful loving a person one can’t live with — You have more self-control in those ways than I have — My love my love I want you.

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200682.

• 2

  [date] The date is assigned from “Friday” and BR’s other letter written on the Friday with a postmarked envelope (BRACERS 200683).

• 3

  Bradshaw Bradshaw’s railway timetables, named after their creator, George Bradshaw, were quite thick and took some skill to interpret.

• 4

  decided to do such a thing Go to China for a year to teach.