DLA019-0093 Transcription

19th May, 1930.

Dear Sir,

I wish to express my regret that you and Mrs. Blumenfeld were prevented from being present at our At Home when Mr. and Mrs. Ochs also hoped to see you.^[1] Since then you will have received an invitation from the Royal Society of British Artists for the Soiree on the 22nd.^[2] I much look forward to the pleasure of greeting you and Mrs. Blumenfeld as our guests.

Before our mutual friend, Mr. Ochs, left for Carlsbad, he expressed a desire to invite a few friends to see his and Mrs. Ochs’s portraits [6480][6486] which I painted. He asked me expressly to invite you, and I should be very glad to see you and Mrs. Blumenfeld on the afternoon of either Tuesday, June 3rd, or Wednesday, June 4th between 5 and 6, in the

Studio.^[3]

Looking forward to make your acquaintance,

Yours sincerely,

Ralph Blumenfeld, Esq.,

“The Daily Express”,

Shoe Lane, E.C.4.

Editorial Note:

Ralph David Blumenfeld (1864-1948), Newspaper editor

SMDL

01/06/2016

[1] For a description of this “At Home”, see DLA019-0098, letter from de Lászlό to István Bárczy de Bárciháza, 19 May 1930; see also [110835].

[2] For the invitation to the soirée, see DLA017-0155

[3] See DLA079-0081, which is a list of people de László was expecting would come to see his portraits of Mr and Mrs Adolph Ochs [6480] [6486]; Ralph Blumenfield [sic] appears to be listed in the “Doubtful” section, although it is unclear.