BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 28 AUG. 1947
BRACERS 19841. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<Llan Ffestiniog, North Wales>
Aug. 28, 19471

Dearest Colette

Your letter of Aug. 222 came this morning. I have sent £203 to Miss Fish.4 How lovely it will be if you get to London. I have to be in Cambridge every Thursday5 from Oct. 9 on, but otherwise I hope not to have very many engagements. I am afraid the plan of coming to Sweden is off — they say no Swedes will go to lectures in June (I don’t blame them!) and I can’t come before then. You must let me know your address in London, which I have forgotten.

We are now in Wales:6

Festiniog, N. Wales

is the address. We shall come back to London at the end of September, when Conrad goes back to school.7

Very much love. Longing for your arrival.8

B

• 1

  [document] Document 200847.

• 2

  Your letter of Aug. 22 Not extant.

• 3

  sent £20 It is not clear what is going on with this money. £20 was the amount that C.D. Broad was not able to give to Colette. On 20 November 1947, he wrote: “I got your £20, which was correct. Thank you” (BRACERS 19843).

• 4

  Miss Fish Phyllis Fish (1914–2021), who remained friends with Colette until Colette’s death. She married Tom Urch in 1953 and her surname became Urch.

• 5

  in Cambridge every Thursday To lecture.

• 6

  We are now in Wales BR and his wife, Patricia, had purchased a home there, Penralltgoch in Llan Ffestiniog. Renovations were finally at a stage that allowed habitation.

• 7

  Conrad … school Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, born 15 April 1937 to BR and Patricia. Conrad attended Dartington Hall school in Devon which he did not enjoy.

• 8

  Longing for your arrival. Without funds Colette could not travel to England.