BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 12 DEC. 1930
BRACERS 19790. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Telegraph House
Harting, Petersfield.1
12.12.30

My Darling Colette

I am very sorry you were so sad:2 it was unlucky, as I seldom have anything I can’t get out of, but I hoped you would come again soon — is that impossible? I do want very much to be with you.

There is nothing in the letters3 that I want to alter or omit.

All my love, my dear one.

• 1

  [document] Document 200796.

• 2

  you were so sad Why Colette was sad is not known; it may have been their inability to spend time together after their time together in Cornwall.

• 3

  nothing in the letters Colette printed letters that BR wrote to her in After Ten Years (London: J. Cape, 1931). She quotes fragments from four of his letters written from prison in 1918, pp. 125–6. She also quotes sections of a letter antedated from Russia but actually written after his return, pp. 143–6.