DLA166-0005 Transcription

GILSTON PARK,

HARLOX,

ESSEX.

May 13th 1918.

My dear de Laszlo

I am so sorry to hear from my wife^[1] that you have been so ill, I hope however that after treatment in a nursing home you may be able to pay us a visit here.^[2] The country is looking its best just at present though from the farming point of view we urgently require warm and dry

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weather. I am still very busy and doing more work than I could have imagined I was ever capable of, but it is wonderful what can be done.

With my best wishes for your speedy recovery –

Yours very truly,

Arthur Bowlby

Editorial Note:

Arthur Salvin Bowlby (1872-1932); for biographical notes, see [2885].

StdeL

28/08/2023

[1] Mrs Arthur Salvin Bowlby, née Catherine Mary Bond (1875-1943) [2880]

[2] In May 1918, de László was granted permission by the Home Office to be released from Holloway Prison to the care of a nursing home in Ladbroke Gardens, Notting Hill, where he was kept under strict house arrest.