DLA166-0068  Translation and transcription

MUSEE RODIN

77, Rue de Varenne, 77

Dear Mr. de Laszlo,

I am here in London for a few days, since I said good-bye to you since the day I bid you farewell on the eve of the tragic events that unfolded across the world, particularly in our country. I have not had the opportunity to set foot in England again. I cannot receive you there without thinking of you and offering you my friendship and grateful remembrance.

I have endured all the tribulations

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that you have unjustly gone through, but I have never doubted your loyalty to your adopted country, and I suspect that you may well have been, like all those who are talented and successful, the victim of envy.

I will be here for about another week with my youngest daughter, and if possible I would like to go with news of you, of Madame de Laszlo and your children, by repeating to myself everything I am writing to you so imperfectly

Your devoted

Léonce Bénédite

Hotel de l’Europe

Leicester Square

SMDL

03/10/2025

Editorial Note:

Léonce Bénédite (1859–1925), French art historian and curator; for biographical notes, see [110437].