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COUNTRY LIFE

20, Tavistock Street,

Covent Garden,W.C.

6th May 1914.

Philip de Laszlo Esq.,

3 Palace Gate,

Kensington, W.

Dear Sir,

I am very sorry to hear from your Agent, Mr. Oakeley [sic] Williams that a letter seems to have been written by you here complaining of the publication by us of Lady Northcliffe's portrait [4496] in connection with the article on Sutton Place, which we had some little time back. I have no trace of any letter from you on this point. Lady Northcliffe showed me the portrait when I was at Sutton, and when I sent proofs of the Sutton Place article, Lady Northcliffe suggested that I might like to show this portrait as the frontispiece to that particular issue and I was only too delighted to show it, as it was a most charming picture. There is, of course, no excuse for the painting not having been acknowledged as being by you, it was

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solely an oversight, as we should very naturally, for the sake of the paper, wish the portrait acknowledged, but I should particularly like you to be assured that other than for this oversight of non-acknowledgment, we had no idea we were transgressing in using the portrait as a frontispiece to the Sutton Place Number.

Yours faithfully,

Edward Hudson