DLA106-0107  Transcription

55, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE. W.1.

19th May 1923

Dear Mr. De Laszlo

I see you are having an Exhibition in town,[1] & write to ask if the portrait you did of me [4279] would be of any use to you for it. You may remember it was shewn in Edinburgh by you shortly after being painted in 1913[2] –

I feel it is ages since we were last in touch and trying to find a spare moment in your busy life to do my wife’s portrait [4130] and we have both

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[covered?] a lot of country and experience [since?].

I shall be away this weekend on duty but hope to hear from you, and Mrs Crookshank will be in town should you wish to telephone about the picture, if urgent.

I trust I may be remembered to Mrs de Laszlo.[3]

Yours very truly

[Colonel C.?] Crookshank

SMDL

05/02/2023


[1] The French Gallery, London, A Series of Portraits and Studies by Philip A. de László, M.V.O., June 1923

[2] Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Annual Exhibition, 1914

[3] Mrs Philip de László, née Lucy Madeleine Guinness (1870–1950) [11474]