BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 19 NOV. 1925
BRACERS 19747. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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31 Sydney Street
London. S.W.3.1^, 2
Nov. 19, 1925

My dear Colette

You were adorably kind to John3 today and he lost his heart to you. I have never before heard him ask if he might come again when he has been taken out. I don’t know whether you would prefer not to see me without him, but if that is not so I should very much like to see you when I did not have to give almost all my attention elsewhere. It was only because I thought you wished it that I was silent so long. And I am still afraid of being importunate. But you are going away soon,4 and we are away in the summer,5 so I suppose it will be at least a year before I see you again after these days. So may I come some time?

Your
B.

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  [document] Document 200755.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 80 Eccleston Square | S.W.1. Pmk: CHELSEA S.W.3 | PM | 19 NOV | 1925

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  John John Conrad Russell, born 16 November 1921, to BR and his wife Dora.

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  going away soon Colette was in London to appear in the plays Young Heaven (as Daphne) and Conflict (role unknown). They were staged at Q Theatre, Kew Bridge and written by her former husband Miles. Once they ended in December, she would return to Blagdon, Somerset where she lived.

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  away in the summer At Carn Voel, in Cornwall.