DLA073-0158   Transcriptions

[Letter 1]

INDIA OFFICE

WHITEHALL S.W.

9. VIII. [19]16

Dear Mr de László,

Lieut. Meher [sic] Mahomed Khan of Maler Kotla whose portrait [1833] you painted for Mr. Chamberlain^[1] leaves England tomorrow to rejoin his appointment on the Staff at the front. If you are giving him a print of the picture would you kindly send

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it to me here & I shall have it carefully packed & sent to its destination.

I am glad to hear that you & your family have got to the country for a time. London is not an ideal place in this heat.

Yours sincerely,

J.R. Dunlop Smith.

[Letter 2]

INDIA OFFICE

WHITEHALL S.W.

19. VIII. [19]16

Dear Mr de László,

I have delayed answering your kind letter of the 11th until I could report the arrival of the copies of the print. These have come this morning & I send you my cordial thanks for the copy you have so generously given to me. It is a striking work

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and you have caught the Pathan spirit of his ancestors in his expression [1833].

I have sent his two copies to the Sirdar who is now in Egypt.

Yours gratefully

J.R. Dunlop Smith

SMDL

13/11/2020