BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [20 AUG. 1920]
BRACERS 19693. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

6 Rue Boissonade
Paris XIV.1^, 2
Friday.3

My Darling

Your telegram has just come4 — Thank you for it, my dear Love — I expect to be here till Aug. 31 owing to the delay of the boat5 but I am not yet sure — If it is as long as that, I shall try to get a book on Russia6 finished — I am working on it now — I keep thinking of times when we have been together.

This is a little flat belonging to an Englishman and a Frenchwoman — they are in the country and have let it to us — close to the Luxembourg, looking out on a convent garden, very quiet and pretty — full of Chinese things, as it happens.

I must get to work on Russia — Goodbye Beloved — I bless you very hour —

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200694.

• 2

  [envelope] Miss Colette O’Niel | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. | Angleterre Pmk: PARIS AUSTERLITZ BANLIEUE 3 | 23* | 20 –8 | 20

• 3

  [date] The date is taken from the envelope’s postmark.

• 4

  telegram has just come Sent from Birmingham, it reads: “Letter just arrived. Off for day in Country. Will write tomorrow. Thought you had left. Infinite Love. Cherub” (BRACERS 107502).

• 5

  delay of the boat To China.

• 6

  a book on RussiaThe Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (B&R A34), published in the U.K. on 9 November 1920.