DLA123-0092  Transcription

[Embossed letterhead: 29, OXFORD SQUARE, W.2.]

Oct 13th 1930

Dear Mrs Lazzlo [sic]

I am writing to thank you and Mr Lazzlo [sic] very much for the delightful Book Box with liqueur bottle and glasses, which you have given me as a wedding present.[1] I think it is a really lovely present and I like it so much.

Thank you both very much indeed for this delightful present.

Yours sincerely

Waterford

Editorial Note:

John Charles de la Poer Beresford, 7th Marquess of Waterford (1901-1934), Irish peer; for biographical notes, see [5170].

LR

29/11


[1] On 14 October 1930, John Charles de la Poer Beresford, 7th Marquess of Waterford married Juliet Mary Lindsay (1904-1987), second daughter of Major David Balcarres Lindsay (1863-1943) and his wife Grace Maud Miller (d. 1945). Lord and Lady Waterford signed the artist’s sitters’ book in November 1930. A contemporary newspaper account noted that “Lord Waterford’s family and relations are presenting the bride and bridegroom with their portraits [5170][5173], painted by Mr Philip de Laszlo” (“Marquis Weds in London,” Dundee Evening Telegraph, Tuesday, 14 October 1930, p. 8).