A Romantic Love Letter written by Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murray

It is believed that this romantic love letter was written Katherine Mansfield

December 27th, 1915

I felt my smiles chasing in my eyes - I saw the villa, perhaps a cactus near the gate. You writing at a little table, me arranging some flowers & then sitting down to write, too.

Both of us gathering pine cones and drift wood and bruyere for our fire - I thought of what I would have ready for you, soup and perhaps
fish, coffee, toast, because Charbon De Bois, which is much cheaper than coal makes lovely toast.

I hear, a pot of confitures, a vase of roses, and then I thought de notre bon lit et de nous deux tout seule, seule cachee dans la nuit - the fire perhaps just tinkling - the sea sounding outside et vous et moi, mon cheri.. with happiness fast asleep on the roof with its head under its wing, like a dove.

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Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand born writer, to John Middleton Murray, English critic and writer.

Translation of French

bruyere - a type of soup

Charbon de bois - a type of log for the fire

confitures - jam

de notre bon lit et de nous deux tout seule, seule cachee dans la nuit  - of our good bed and the two of us alone, alone hidden in the night.

et vous et moi, mon cheri. - and you and me, my love