DLA016-0094  Transcription

WOLMER WOOD,

MARLOW COMMON,

MARLOW, BUCKS.

Aug. 15th 1926.

My dear friend

I was glad to get your letter yesterday and though I am sorry I shall not be able to be with you on Wednesday I am glad to hear that you are going to spend the week in pleasant surroundings – I hope you will have a good time in the Isle of Wight. I must have a peep at you before you go to Italy so I will keep Sunday free to come up. If I can arrange it I will come up Saturday afternoon and stay till Monday – if, that is to say, this suits you. If I cannot get away on Saturday I will come up on Sunday for the night: I do not know at the moment which of the two I can do as I am not sure about our arrangements for the weekend but I will let you know

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later whether I shall turn up Saturday or Sunday. You reproach me for not appearing at Fitzjohns Avenue before – I am sorry but since we got back from Cornwall we have had a lot to do in one way and another and my trips to town have been only for a few hours at a time and not every week. We had the Kendricks^[1] with us for ten days and other friends and there have been a good many things going on here that I could not get out of if I do not appear occasionally at local tea parties and tennis afternoons I get into the bad books of people here.

Au revoir then till the end of the week when I hope to find you all in the best of spirits.

Always yours

A.L. Baldry.

Editorial Note:

Alfred Lys Baldry (1858-1939), British artist and art critic who authored several articles on de László and who was a close family friend; for biographical notes, see [3562].

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