DLA019-0129 Transcription

LONDON,

23rd. July, 1931.

I wish to thank you for your letter of July 6th,^[1] and I much appreciate your expression of enthusiasm in regard to my Exhibition chez Charpentier,^[2] which gives me great pleasure. I only regret that we did not meet.

John Lane, of the Bodley Head, to whom I gave the right to reproduce my portrait of Marechal Lyautey [6118], kindly sent me a copy of Monsieur Maurois’ biography of the Marechal before the book was put on the market; the English edition is published in very nice form, and I am very pleased to possess Monsieur Maurois’ version of the life of Marechal Lyautey which has been so well written, and that I am associated with it by means of my portrait of the Marechal.^[3]

I hope that, when I am next in Paris, we may meet, and with kindest regards to you and Monsieur Maurois,^[4]

Believe me,

Yours very sincerely,

SMDL

08/06/2018

[1] DLA019-0130, letter from Simone Maurois to de László, 6 July 1931

[2] Hôtel Jean Charpentier, Paris, Exposition P. A. de László, June 1931

[3] André Maurois, Marshal Lyautey, translated by Hamish Miles, The Bodley Head, London, 1931, frontispiece, ill.

[4] André Maurois, né Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog (1885–1967), French author