DLA019-0279 Transcription

CHANCELLOR HOUSE

TUNBRIDGE WELLS.^[1]

Wed. May 4 1932

My dear Mr Laszlo

How kind of you to write to me from [illegible] when you ought to have been [resting?], and not writing letters, I feel certain.

It will be the greatest pleasure for me to avail

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myself of your kind invitation to come & see you one afternoon between 5 & 6 o’clock one day when in London. I often come up for the day –

It will be so nice although sad? to see you in your studio where I spent [illegible] happy? hours – with you, & our

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darling Charlie [111050]^[2] –

The picture is such a joy to me – & so much admired [illegible] by so many.

Believe me

[illegible] Alice Hillingdon

SMDL

22/07/2018

[1] The Dowager Lady Hillingdon purchased Chancellor House, Tunbridge Wells in 1930.

[2] The Honourable Charles Thomas Mills (1887–1915) was commissioned in 1908 as a captain in the West Kent (Queen’s Own) Yeomanry and was made a lieutenant in 1910. He was gazetted to the Scots Guards as a second lieutenant in May 1915. Four months later, on 6 October 1915, he was killed at Hulluch during the Battle of Loos on the Western Front.