DLA017-0090  Transcription

MOTTISTONE MANOR

ISLE OF WIGHT

Ap.12.[19]30

Dear M. de Lászlo

This note is just to tell you how sorry we were not to be able to come to the Private View of the Royal Society of British Artists

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exhibition for which you so kindly sent us a card.[1]

I know we missed a really enjoyable afternoon –

With kindest regards in which my husband, General Seely[2] joins – to you & to Madame de Lászlo.

Yrs sincerely

Evelyn ‘Seely’

SMDL

16/01/2018


[1] The Royal Society of British Artists, London, One Hundred and Seventy-Third Exhibition, Spring 1930

[2] John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone (1868-1947), politician and British Army general