DLA019-0196  Translation

M. BENLLIURE

ABASCAL, 53.–ESTUDIO

Madrid 2 January 1931

My very dear friend,

I am glad that the announcement of your son’s wedding gives me the opportunity to send you and Madame Laszlo my best wishes for a good and happy year for 1931.^[1] Besides, I can see that it will start in the most beautiful way that it could since it is going to unite two illustrious families and fill with happiness two fiancés. I beg you, my dear friends, to be my interpreter to the newly-weds to tell them all the happiness I wish them and all my wishes for a beautiful year with all the joy they deserve.

I would have liked to have told them viva voce all those things but, as always, work prevails, happily anyway, and does not allow me in such happy circumstances to shake your hand.

I therefore ask you, very dear friend, to greet and compliment Baroness Versen, and to send my sincere congratulations to your wife and the happy young people.

Believe me, dear friend, yours sincerely, in friendship,

Mariano Benlliure

P.S. So that I am not always absent, it would give me great pleasure to send the newlyweds a little work to always remember me by

Editorial Note:

Professor Mariano Benlliure Gil (1862–1947), Spanish sculptor, museum director and a good friend of de László; for biographical notes, see [10155]. 

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30/10/2008