DLA123-0041  Transcription

2, GROSVENOR PLACE,

S.W.1.

27th. Oct [19]32.

Dear Mr de Lazlo.

I must begin by thanking you most warmly for the excellent beautiful and charming portrait of my wife [3733]. For a long time I have wanted to meet you and to arrange this, and for you to meet her and to agree to paint her. I fortunately heard that you were back in London last July, and encouraged her to try and see you while you were busy on Mrs Somerset [7200]. You have been most kind in arranging to do it straight away, and have filled me with a lasting joy, and in addition have sent us a portrait which I am sure will look magnificent and beautiful among the older ones now belonging to my Father.^[1]

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I hope that I may meet you to thank you personally and regret that I have not written to you sooner. I am glad to hear that the exhibition in Dundee was very popular, and am sorry not to have been there to see it, as though I have seen others in London before, the collection arranged in Dundee sounds to have been a most attractive one.^[2]

You have been very good to us, and I understand that you have done much more than we asked.

With best thanks | yours Sincerely

Dalkeith

LR

27/11/2018