DLA166-0057  Transcription

METROPOLITAN POLICE OFFICE,

NEW SCOTLAND YARD, S.W.

8th February, 1918.

CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Mrs. de Laszlo

When you called upon me at this Office, I understood you to say that your son’s name had been, or was likely to be taken off the List of one of the housemasters at Eton.[1] As this seemed to me very hard on the boy, I wrote to Mr. Alington,[2] the Headmaster, but he is unable to trace the House for which the boy’s name was entered. Could you let me know this, and I will write again?[3]

Sincerely yours,

BH Thomson

StedeL

13/12/2023


[1] See related item DLA166-0024, letter from F. E. Robeson to Lucy de László, 12 November 1917

[2] Cyril Argentine Alington (1872–1955), Headmaster of Eton College from 1916 to 1933

[3] For Lucy’s draft reply, see DLA166-0058, draft letter from Lucy de László to Basil Thomson, 10 February 1918