DLA016-0098 Transcription

295 St. James Court

Buckingham Gate.

S.W.1.

Jan. 7th [1927]

Dear M. de Laszlo.

I promised to send you the result of our interview. Here it is.

as usual – the sub-editors have been busy cutting all the best bits out – but even so it is not so mangled as things usually are –^[1]

I do hope I may see you again some time? –

Perhaps if you are ever in on Sundays I might be allowed one afternoon to bring my mother up see

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a few of your beautiful pictures – (I will try to dress more adequately – according to your ideas!)^[2] –

Thank you for the time you gave me –

Diana Bourbon.

P.S. I have saved some of the best things you said & they will make their appearance from time to time as Paragraphs in “The Londoner’s Diary” section –^[3]

SMDL

20/12/2017

[1] De László was very pleased with the interview, see DLA016-0099, letter from de László to Diana Bourbon, 12 January 1907.

[2] Diana Bourbon remarked upon de László’s ideas on dress in a 1927 article she published in The Graphic: “Imagine a day on the river, in an English June, while wearing nothing but the diaphanous draperies of Ancient Greece, which that modern and fashionable painter Philip de Laszlo described to me the other day as being still the “only perfect feminite attire ever invented”!”, The Graphic, 7 May 1927, p. 23.

[3] The “Londoner's Diary” is a gossip column in the London Evening Standard that first appeared in 1916.