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Stockholm,

Kommendörsgatan 35

sept. 20th 1932.

My dear, most venerated de Laszlò,

Thanks ever so much for Your delightful letter of august 6th.^[1] I was glad to know, that my letters from India had reached You safely. Had just the other day a charming letter from Lady Willingdon from Simla, which I shall bring along to London for You to read.^[2] She really is a dear.

I hope to go to Coburg about the 8th of october and certainly hope to see Tsar Ferdinand^[3] and then Your ears will ring, for you can be sure we’ll sing Your praise to the ether. I also hope to see the Cyrills of Russia,^[4] whose relations in Roumania are my old friends. And after the wedding, I’ll come to London and tell You all about it, that will be fun! Now may I ask when it will suit You best to receive me for “immortalisation” [111430]? I can either come over to London for a week or two, immediately after the wedding, or what would suit me much better, in the beginning of november. In the first case, I would arrive in London about october 23d, in the 2d, about november 2d. The thing is, that I have to go to Paris to talk politics with the leading French men, and as far as I know now, they will be in Paris in the 2d halv [sic] of october. But of course, if november does not suit You, I shall come to London first and go to Paris afterwards. In case You find it difficult to fix my sittings now, before I leave for Coburg, letters will find me at Hotel Excelsior, Coburg, between october 20th and oct. 21st.

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You can imagine how exciting I am to see Your big picture for the chapel and how I shall love to write about it in all my languages and publications.^[5]

How amusing that You just painted Lord Cecil [4053], for a few years ago, when he lectured in Stockholm, I painted his litterary [sic] portrait and was very much complimented for it.

I do hope that You have had a thorough rest in the country, but I begin to wonder whether such “eine Feuerseele” as You, ever can drop the thought of work.

I must apologise most tremendously for not having answered Your so kind letter before, but I have had my daughter ill and also been kept frightfully busy with my broadcasting lectures on India. I seem to be considered quite an expert on India in Sweden and have had to speak and write so much about it that I begin to feel: rien ne va plus! At present Ghandis quaint decision has given me a lot of extra work. Still, we are living in an interesting period, best to keep in the midst of it all.

I shall be grateful for a word in answer, either to Stockholm before the 8th, or later, to Coburg.

Believe me always Yours most sincerely and respectfully

Dr Annie Quensel

Editorial Note:

Doctor Annie Theresia Quensel [née Weiss] (1886-1933), Austrian-Swedish journalist, author (and zoologist); for biographical notes, see [111430].

SMDL

06/04/2018