DLA020-0258  Transcription

The Berkeley

Berkeley Street

London, W.1

29. 5. 1933.

Dear Mr. de Laszlo,

Please accept, and kindly convey to Mrs de Laszlo,^[1] my profound thanks for the joy of being with you and your family last Thursday afternoon.

To-day I had the pleasure of taking tea with Mr. Bowring-Hanbury^[2] in his treasure-house. It is most gratifying to find that he is recovering more health each day. The fact that he knows that you are painting the portrait of his beloved saintly wife [9806] and will have it ready for him by the beginning of next week is a potent factor in that recovery. His first sight of the completed

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work will, I am sure, be one of the ecstatic events of his life.

With all my heart I hope that you and Mrs. de Laszlo will be blessed on Thursday with a daughter-in-law that shall make your son supremely happy and be his lifelong inspiration and encouragement.^[3]

In the accompanying verses I have tried to achieve a word picture of the Perfect Woman.^[4]

Yours sincerely,

E. Laws.

SMDL

13/09/2018