DLA018-0086 Transcription

VICEROY’S CAMP,

INDIA.

[the following handwritten] Dec: 1932

[the following typed] Ever so many thanks for your charming Christmas and New Year Greetings. It was so good of you to remember us. May we in return wish you the best of luck in the coming year.

[the following handwritten] How too nice of you to bother to [illegible] remember us. Your picture up here [possibly 7751] is always much admired.^[1] We have [at? or it?][illegible] here also other [triumphs?]

[across the side of the page] by you. All charming.

Marie Willingdon

Editorial Note:

Marie Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon, née Lady Marie Adelaide Brassey (1875-1960); for biographical notes, see [7755].

SMDL

21/05/2018

[1] [7751] is a copy after de László’s 1924 portrait of Lady Willingdon [7755]. The copy was made by Atul Bose (1898-1977), a portrait painter from Bengal who studied at the Royal Academy in London from 1924 to 1926. The copy portrait [7751] is in the collection of the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, India.