A Romantic Love Letter written by Stella Campbell to George Bernard Shaw

My Stella used to sing a song which I told her was silly, and she declared was funny - your last letter reminds me more of it than your others -

He's mad, mad, mad,
He's clean gone off his nut
He cleans his boots with strawberry jam
He eats his hat whenever he can
He's mad, mad, mad -

 

- I hope you too will have a lovely holiday and not need your ' cap and bells' all the time - and that bladder - whacking of yours, that makes my dear friend D.D.

jump, and imagine its really a dump?

My address will be

Hotel Mirabeau
Aix - Les - Bains
Savoie
France -

I start to -morrow after 8 days in bed - with two black eyes - and some screw - like pains in my shoulder.

Yours affectionately,

Beatrice Stella.

It is believed that this romantic love letter was written on 18th November 1912.

 33 Kensington Square

No more shams — a real love letter this time — then I can breathe freely, and perhaps who knows begin to sit up and get well –

I haven't said 'kiss me' because life is too short for the kiss my heart calls for… All your words are as idle wind — Look into my eyes for two minutes without speaking if you dare! Where would be your 54 years? and my grandmother's heart? and how many hours would you be late for dinner?

– If you give me one kiss and you can only kiss me if I say 'kiss me' and I will never say 'kiss me' because I am a respectable widow and I wouldn't let any man kiss me unless I was sure of the wedding ring –

Stella
(Liza, I mean).

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'Stella' (Beatrice Campbell, English actress) and George Bernard Shaw, an Irish dramatist, corresponded for 40 years although the relationship was always distant when they met.