DLA020-0296  Translation

Vienna

27.IX.[19]33.

Dear Friend,

I still have not thanked you properly for your most welcome gift in the shape of the “Apollo” magazine with the article about you and the reproductions of some of your particularly outstanding paintings.^[1] I enjoyed and admired it all greatly and shared some of it with some of my visitors who were all showing great interest. I am assuming you and your family are back in London from the country and I would therefore like to introduce Sēnor Segismundo Edelstein to you who is about to take his daughter up to Oxford university where she intends to study national economics. Mr. Edelstein is expected to arrive at the Dorchester Hotel in London on Saturday and will probably call you on Sunday referring to me. I would be grateful if you were to give this very likable and modest entrepreneur who made a considerable fortune in Buenos Aires – a warm welcome and made especially sure that he and his daughter Carola meet your two younger sons Patrick and John,^[2] because I have promised Mr. Edelstein that his daughter would meet your two well-educated sons at Oxford. I hope I am not wrong that both your youngest are now at the university in Oxford. By the way, Mr. Edelstein is also acquainted with the Hirsch family of Buenos Aires^[3] and seems to be just as rich as they are. On top of that he has very good taste which I witnessed visiting his splendidly furnished apartment in the Dietrichstein House in Löwelstrasse in Vienna.

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It would be of great advantage if many such rich people would settle in Vienna where they would at least spread some money amongst the population. If they presented themselves as humbly as Mr. Edelstein they should be doubly welcome in Vienna.

I am a little bit concerned that said gentleman might not find you there at all as you might be staying in Paris around that time. Maybe you could kindly receive him there when he returns from Oxford. Might it be possible to suggest to your sons from Paris that they should look after the young lady a little bit in Oxford, if not before in London.

I hope to send you my new book before Christmas: “King Eduard and his circle in Marienbad – Politics and Conviviality at Bohemian forest Spas.”

I hope Mrs. De Laszlo^[4] enjoyed a beautiful summer and has returned well rested. I equally expect that the three young households are keeping well and happy. When Mr. Edelstein returns to Vienna in October sometime I am looking forward to hearing many good and interesting things about you.

I have not spent a single night away from Vienna for a year now, having stayed here all summer long and always working. I expect you and your friends in London are as repulsed as I am about what is happening in Germany… Before I forget, some time ago I had a visit from the young Viennese sculptor Felix Weiss who stays frequently in London, he knows you and he may have sent you my regards.^[5] 

Farewell, dear friend, with my most heartfelt greetings to you and Mrs. De Laszlo | Yours as always devoted in friendship,

S. Münz

Editorial Notes:

Sigmund Münz (1859–1934), Austrian journalist and writer; for biographical notes, see [6377].  

For de László’s reply, see DLA020-0295, letter from de László to Sigmund Münz, 21 October 1933.

LV (translation)

24/04/2021

AG (summary)

03/2009