DLA106-0155  Transcription

“DROVERS”,

SINGLETON,

SUSSEX.

May 1st [1923]

Dear Mr Lazlo [sic].

I see you are having an exhibition of your pictures in June[1] – Would you like to have mine [10763] from 50. South Audley Street. If so I can arrange it. You know I have lost my beloved Father Sir Charles. F. Gill[2]  so

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am staying quietly in the country  Thank God I am now happily married, and have a friend and companion in my present husband[3] –

I was very interested to hear you had painted Mussolini [6383] – and much impressed by him.

Yours very sincerely.

Elsie H Carlisle

(Mrs Denton Carlisle)

SMDL

11/02/2023


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

[2] Sir Charles Frederick Gill (1851–1923), Barrister and Recorder of Chichester

[3] Lieutenant-Colonel John Charles Denton (‘Jack’) Carlisle (1888–1972)