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Kingswood

Watford

Herts.

Sept 25th. [possibly 1909]^[1]

Dear Mr Laszlo

We are so sorry that you are unable to undertake the portrait of my wife^[2] before we sail for America – If anything unfore-

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-seen should occur in your engagements please do not forget how much we should like to have this portrait painted before we [start?] – My wife is so well now after her holiday up here & I am afraid the season in Washington is rather a trying

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time for her & takes a good deal out of her owing to all the social duties – We should anyhow like very much to come to your studio again before we sail & will write as you kindly suggest – with very kind regards

Believe me

Yours very truly

B.R. James

Editorial Note:

Colonel Bernard Ramsden James (1864–1938) served with the East Surrey Regiment in India and the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in Gibraltar and South Africa. He also worked as an army interpreter and was attached to the Intelligence Department at the War Office. In October 1906, he was appointed Military Attaché to British Ambassador James Bryce in Washington, D.C.