DLA020-0271  Transcription

77 Bedford Gdns

W8

Dec 3rd [1933]

Dear Mr de Laszlo,

I wonder if you remember coming one morning to our little Casa at Taormina, when Major Longden^[1] was staying with us last year.

I am writing to ask your help with regard to a trip, we hope to do to Hungary, next April

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or May; we hope to go to Budapest & then we want to stay for a couple of weeks somewhere in the country. I suppose you do not know of anyone with a country place, where we could stay as paying guests, & where I could paint, as we particularly don’t want to stay in hotels all the time. Also could you very kindly tell me the name & address of your young friend, who was

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at Mr Kitson’s villa the afternoon we met over there as he told me he could give me information about music in Hungary when we came there.

I hope you will forgive me for troubling you.

Yrs sincerely

C Byng Lucas

Editorial Notes:

Caroline Byng Lucas, née Caroline Lucas (1886–1967), British painter, sculptor and printmaker

For de László’s reply, see DLA020-0270, letter from de László to Caroline Byng Lucas, 5 December 1933

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13/09/2018