BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, 11 JAN. 1965
BRACERS 19915. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Plas Penrhyn,
Penrhyndeudraeth,
Merioneth.1^, 2
Jan. 11, 1965

Dearest Colette

Thank you very much for your letter,3 which relievesa some of my anxieties. I am glad your nephew has helped.4 Have you enough books to read? If not, let me know what sort you would like.

I hope your cure will take 8 weeks rather than 3 years.5 Is there anything at all that would diminish the tedium of hospital? If there is, please let me know.

Fondest love, as always.

B.

• 1

  [document] Document 200919.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | St. Mary’s Hospital | Bury St. Edmund’s | Suffolk. Pmk: indecipherable.

• 3

  for your letter BR had received Colette’s letter of 7 January 1965 (BRACERS 98495) but not yet her follow-up letter of 9 January (BRACERS 98496).

• 4

  your nephew has helped Gerald Francis (Sowerby) Annesley (1904–1992), the son of her half-sister Mabel and her husband, Gerald Sowerby. Her nephew had offered to pay for her nursing-home expenses should she care to go to one and to take her to Ireland once she was ready to leave medical care.

• 5

  8 weeks rather than 3 years Colette had written that the quickest cure for stroke at the hospital — St. Mary’s in Bury St. Edmunds — was eight weeks, the longest three years (BRACERS 98495).

Textual Notes

• a

  relieves misspelt as releaves