BRACERS Record Detail for 19860

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
596
Document no.
200867
Box no.
6.68
Source if not BR
Malleson, Constance
Recipient(s)
Malleson, Constance
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1949/03/05
Form of letter
ALS
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
LD
Notes and topics

"Dearest Colette Peter is in bed with a temperature and gets agitated over your difficulties at the cottage."

BR wants Malleson to write to Patricia about the difficulties, although she is ill.

Transcription

BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 5 MAR. 1949
BRACERS 19860. ALS. McMaster. SLBR 2: #484
Edited by S. Turcon and N. Griffin. Reviewed by K. Blackwell


<letterhead>
18a Dorset House
Gloucester Place
N.W.1.1
5 March 1949

Dearest Colette

Peter2 is in bed with a temperature and gets agitated over your difficulties3 at the cottage.4 Would you please write to me, not to her, if you have anything that needs telling about them. We are very sorry you are having all this worry. When I come I will see if anything can be done. Love.

B.

  • 1

    [document] Document 200867.

  • 2

    Peter Patricia (“Peter”) Russell, née Spence (1910–2004). She and BR were married from 1936 until 1952.

  • 3

    agitated over your difficulties With regard to the cottage’s domestic staff. Peter wrote to Elizabeth Crawshay-Williams about the problems in letters of 19 February and 2 April 1949 (BRACERS 131561 and 131562).

  • 4

    the cottage Pentralltgoch in Llan Ffestiniog.

Textual Notes

  • a

    18 above deleted 27

Publication
SLBR 2: #484
Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
19860
Record created
May 26, 2014
Record last modified
Dec 04, 2025
Created/last modified by
duncana