DLA035-0079  Translation and Transcription

[Translation]

Rome, 31st Dec. 1934

Wishing you and your dear family a Happy New Year, From the sunny City, where we first met 35 years ago.

Your truly respectful admirer,

Simon Meller

[Transcription]

Roma, 1934 dec. 31

A napsugaras Városból, a hol 35 évvel ezelőtt először találkoztunk, boldog újévet kiván Neked és K. Családodnak

igen tisztelő hived

Meller Simon

Editorial Note:

Simon Meller (1875–1949) was a noted art historian, responsible for initiating the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts’ collection of drawings by Picasso. A famous double portrait by József Rippl-Rónai shows Elek Petrovics (another of de László’s correspondents) and Simon Meller side by side. Meller spent his last years in France and is buried in Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris. His daughter Katalin (Kató) and grandson Tamás (aged 9) did not leave Hungary: they were murdered by the Arrow Cross, the Hungarian Nazis, in 1944.

AH (translation & transcription)

16/04/2025

KB (summary)

22/10/2009