BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [14 MAR. 1928]
BRACERS 19761. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Telegraph House
Harting, Petersfield1^, 2
Wed.3

My dear Colette

I am afraid it is quite impossible for me to come Sunday week.4 I may be able to come Monday, but I can’t tell till Dora lands,5 and so I think it is best not to take tickets in advance unless you like to have tickets taken which may possibly not be used. If so, I will take 2 tickets for Monday on the chance. I am assuming it is Monday afternoon — in the evening I have to give a lecture.6 Will you make my apologies to your mother7 and say how very sorry I am not to come.

Yours
BR

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  [document] Document 200767.

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  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 80 Eccleston Square | S.W.1. Pmk: CHICHESTER GT. BRIT. | 7.30 PM | 14 MAR 28

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

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  Sunday week On 25 March 1928 to see her play The Way staged by the Arts Theatre in London and reviewed the following day in The Times. There was also a matinee Monday, 26 March.

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  Dora lands Dora, BR’s wife, was expected back from America around 17 March 1928.

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  to give a lecture On “The Philosophy of Physics” for the British Institute of Philosophical Studies, London.

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  your mother Priscilla, Lady Annesley (1870–1941), second wife of Hugh Annesley, fifth Earl of Annesley (1831–1908). Colette describes her mother as “among the most beautiful women of her day” with a love of bright colours and walking (After Ten Years [London: J. Cape, 1931], pp. 12–14).