DLA020-0282  Transcription

LANGFORD,

LECHLADE,

GLOS.

19/1/1933.

My Dear De Laszlo,

Baldry^[1] sent me the cutting of the interview with you – It is excellent, restrained & just.

I am enclosing a very amusing letter by my friend Harold Falkner,^[2] who, you may remember, was the architect of my house at Frensham. He has done so much at Frensham & is a remarkably fine draughtsman. The finish of his letter will make you laugh! Perhaps you will kindly post it back to me as I want to show it to some friends.

I am keeping out of London now, so that I don’t expect that I shall see you until after your return from Rome. I wish you all a very happy time there. It is so altered now that I should hardly know it. I used to be in the Via Sistina so loved to gaze at the view of Rome from the Borghese Gardens. Did you, I wonder, see the reproduction of that terrible figure by Hardiman,^[3] with a [Tiny?] hand & arms & legs with impossible muscles? Fancy

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so utterly an incompetent “sculptor” being employed to produce the Statue of Earl Haig! I predict that when it is finished, there will be a first class row, & it will never be put up. Certainly not, if Lady Haig is living.^[4]

I was so pleased to see that your “little boy” is engaged to be married.^[5] Please give him my congratulations – he is not one to make a mistake & will have a very happy life I am sure. That means another portrait!

With kindest greetings to you all

Yours ever sincerely

Richard Morley

Editorial Note:

Robert Morley (1857–1941), British artist

SMDL

14/09/2018