DLA045-0024  Transcription

41, RUTLAND GATE.

S.W.

March 17. 1917

St. Patrick’s Day

Dear Mr de Laszlo,

How kind of you to send me your sketch of my Husband’s portrait [112044].

We have been so intensely interested in looking at the two pictures [5657][112044] together we have

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hardly done anything else since your much valued gift arrived.

Your sketch [112044] has troubled me very much as I do not now if I was correct

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or not. still I feel your portrait [5657] is a picture of my Husband as I know him and the Sketch [112044] is as the world knows him. The two pictures so much bring before my mind the words of Robert Browning^[1] I expect

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you know them

“Thank God the meanest of his Creatures

Boasts two soul sides

One to face the world with

One to show a woman when he loving her”^[2]

If you and Madame Laszlo^[3] would come and see us on Sunday the 28th it would be such a pleasure to see you both. We

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shall be at home any time after four o’clock and delighted if you can come.

Your much valued gift will always be a token of a life

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long friendship between us all,

Yours very sincerely

Evelyne Horridge.

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We are so hoping to see you both on Sunday the 25th but please this must not interfere with your promise to bring Mr Sanderson^[4] to see your portrait on the 31st of March or the 1st or 2nd of April.^[5]

SMDL

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