BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [30 AUG. 1920]
BRACERS 19695. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

Paris,1^, 2
Monday3 —

My dear dear Love

Thank you for your letter of Aug 26 which I got yesterday. It was a wonderful time at Clacton4 — my Beloved, I do love you — Here too the moon is wonderful — I have walked along the Seine at night and it was very very beautiful — Your dear letter makes me sad — I feel you are sad, and I am sad too when I think of the long long time we shall be apart, and wonder about the future. But I do not think we can ever lose what there is between us —

I work endlessly at my Russian book5 — it won’t be hasty — most of the work was done before I left London. I hate the Bolsheviks getting defeated,6 in spite of not having liked them — I feel their enemies are worse. I am very happy with Dora7 — I care for her much more than before she went to Russia — But there is something in the love that you and I have that I shall not find elsewhere —

The publishers will send you the Russian book — you needn’t bother about ordering it. It can’t possibly be out before November.

My Heart’s Comrade,8 I love you — my thoughts are with you constantly — bless you, Beloved —

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200696.

• 2

  [envelope] Miss Colette O’Niel | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. Pmk: PARIS 38 | R. CLAUDE BERNARD | 16 30 | 30 –8 | 20

• 3

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

• 4

  Clacton Colette and BR had vacationed together at Clacton, Essex in late June.

• 5

  my Russian bookThe Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (B&R A34), published on 9 November 1920.

• 6

  the Bolsheviks getting defeated BR is referring to the Battle of Warsaw.

• 7

  Dora Dora Russell, née Black (1894–1986). She and BR were married from 1921 until 1935. For more information on her, see BRACERS 19506, n.3.

• 8

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