DLA007-0061 Transcription

4, CARLTON GARDENS,
PALL MALL,

S.W.

March 24th, 1915.

Dear Mr. Laszlo,

This is only to let you know that Trinity College has agreed to lend your portrait of Mr. Balfour [2707], to the Manchester Exhibition;^[1] and Mr. Temple,^[2] the organiser of the Exhibition, (of the City of London Guildhall) has been written to upon the subject by the Deputy Bursar.

If you your-self wish to make any communication upon the matter, this is the gentleman to whom you should write.

Yours very truly,

Wilfred M. Short

Editorial Note:

Wilfrid Maurice Short (1870–1947), British civil servant who served as private secretary to A. J. Balfour for 26 years.

[1] The original proposal for this exhibition came from the art gallery committee in Manchester where it was expected the exhibition would be staged. It ultimately opened in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London before travelling to the Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (see Dorothy Nott, Reframing War: British Military Painting 1854 to 1918, 2 vols., PhD., University of York, 2015, vol. 1, p. 168, fn. 607). [2707] was exhibited at the Guildhall Art Gallery as no. 28 and the Mappin Art Gallery as no. 49, see [2707].

[2] Sir Alfred George Temple (1848-1928), director of the Guildhall Art Gallery in London from 1886 to 1928