DLA016-0086  Transcription 

WOLMER WOOD,

MARLOW COMMON,

MARLOW, BUCKS.

June 30th 1925.

My dear friend

I am exceedingly sorry but I cannot get to you this week; I have an engagement fixed up here for Thursday that I cannot get out of. May I come next week? If I may, I will fix things up so as to be free; I want to hear all about your trip abroad.

I am very sorry indeed to hear about John;^[1] it must have been a great shock to you to have him so ill while you were away but I am very glad he is better and I hope he will soon be all right again. Fortunately, there are still three months of warm weather to come so he will have

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time to get strong again before the winter. It is very bad luck indeed that he should have had such a severe attack.

Henry’s^[2] success must have pleased you greatly – give him my heartiest congratulations when you are writing to him.

I know you will be very sorry to hear that Peter and Violet have lost their baby;^[3] it died when it was six weeks old. It had an internal malformation and was operated on for it but it died about twenty four hours afterwards. It is a very great blow to the young people as they were very proud of the baby and had many hopes for its future.

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I hope that you and Mrs de Laszlo are all right in spite of your anxieties – your journey must have been a great rush out and back again.

Au revoir till next week, if I may come then. | Always yours

A.L. Baldry

Editorial Note:

Alfred Lys Baldry (1858-1939), British artist and art critic who authored several articles on de László and who was a close family friend; for biographical notes, see [3562].

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18/12/2017