DLA016-0133 Transcription

34, SOUTH STREET,

PARK LANE.W.

Tuesday.

Dear Mr. de Lazlo,

I have a friend who would like so much to be painted by you. Could you let us come to see you one day? She is lunching with me tomorrow (Wed.)^[1]

Could we go to see you for a few minutes after lunch?

I come back

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from P[i]estany – cured.

Would your secretary just ring up and say when – and if and where you could see us?

I do hope you are better after your cure.

Yrs ever,

Patricia Cottenham

Our friend – Frances Apponyi is divorcing her husband.^[2] Very modern?

SMDL

29/12/2017

[1] Although this letter is undated, see DLA016-0134, letter from de László to Patricia Pepys, Countess of Cottenham, 8 November 1928, which is very likely the artist’s reply to DLA016-0133.

[2] Countess Rudolf Apponyi, née Baroness Franziska von Holtz; other married name Baroness Carl von Born (1884-1936) [110441]