BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 10 JULY 1930
BRACERS 19783. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Carn Voel
Porthcurno
Penzance.1
10.7.30

My dearest Colette

I found your letter2 when we got here last night. It will be heavenly having a visit from you, and I shall expect you Monday.3 If I were you, I should go by coach to Plymouth, and then on by train. The train goes through nicer country than the road after Plymouth. Get to Plymouth, if you can, by 2.40, and you will catch the train arriving here 4.50 — I will meet you with the car at the station (9 miles). I know nothing of coaches from Plymouth to Penzance, and believe there are none. Goodbye till Monday, Colette my Dear.

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200789.

• 2

  your letter Not extant.

• 3

  Monday 15 July 1930. Colette’s long letter of 29 July 1930 to her mother describing the visit indicates that she arrived on the 14th (“Letters to Bertrand Russell from Constance Malleson, 1916–1969”, pt. 2, beginning on p. 16). The scrapbook pages that she kept of the visit record the dates as 14–30 July. However she was back at her home in Blagdon on 29 July (postcard to Carrie Webster of that day, RA3, Rec. Acq. 1620).