DLA019-0171 Transcription

23rd. June, 1931.

I much regret the delay in acknowledging your letter of June 13th.^[1]

With reference to my Secretary’s telephone conversation with you this morning, I wish to confirm that you have my permission to proceed with the matter of having my portrait of Lord Cavan [4037] copied by Mr. S.P. Kendrick, and that his fee will not exceed £70.^[2]

Regarding my portrait of Lord Roberts which I painted of him in khaki with the Union Jack behind for the Memorial hall at Eton [6924], and which I understand you wish to have reproduced as a frontispiece to a book which you are having published, you also have my permission to obtain a print of this, for the purpose of reproduction, from my photographer, Mr. Paul Laib, 3, Thistle Grove Drayton Gardens, S.W.10., who will supply you with whatever size you require.^[3]

Yours sincerely,

Colonel R.V. Pollok, C.B.E., D.S.O.,

SMDL

11/06/2018

[1] DLA019-0172, letter from Major-General Robert Valentine Pollok to de László, 13 June 1931

[2] Sydney Percy Kendrick (1874–1955), British artist; one of de László’s favoured official copyists. Kendrick’s copy of de László’s portrait of Lord Cavan is in the possession of the Irish Guards at their Regimental Headquarters in Wellington Barracks, London.

[3] Paul Ferdinand Anton Laib (1869–1958) [5994]