DLA019-0076  Transcription

SUFFOLK STREET,

PALL MALL, S.W. 1.

April 19th 1929

Dear Mr De Laszlo,

I am so disappointed at missing you this morning.

It is a marvel I did not meet you, as when I got back from the City my Secretary, Mr. Sharp, told me you had only been gone about a minute. I suspect you turned up Suffolk Place into the Haymarket just as I turned into the Street from Pall Mall East. Probably if I had been coming from the West instead of from the East I should have run into you.

My Secretary tells me you admired Mr. Amshewitz’s^[1] still life

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I am very glad of this, as it has attracted me very much indeed, and there is nothing so pleasing & so flattering to a layman as to have his opinion confirmed by a distinguished artist, whose judgement is beyond question.

I hope sincerely I shall sell it for him as I consider Mr. Amshewitz one of the ablest painters in the Society, and deserves success

Yours sincerely

Percy Edsall

Editorial Note:

For de László’s reply, see DLA019-0075, letter from de László to Percy Edsall, 22 April 1929

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