DLA123-0023 Transcription
KINHARVIE,
NEW ABBEY,
DUMFRIES.
Aug. 19th. [19]34.
Dear Mr. de Laszlo.
Thank you for returning the picture of my father [4525] which I was so pleased to see. It is looking so much better.[1] I will be pleased to send you a photograph of it. You said it
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should not have had a glass on it but I notice it still has. Should this be removed.
Yrs Sincerely
Norfolk.
LR
22/11/2018
[1] In 1934, de László visited Arundel Castle. He recorded in his diary that the portrait of the 15th Duke of Norfolk [4525] was hanging “badly opposite a window – & under glas[s]!” In July 1934, he “touched up & varnished the portrait … which was in a very neglected state” (Philip de László, 1934 diary, 20 May entry, p. 28, and 27 July entry, p. 113-4).