DLA123-0210  Transcription

BUCKHURST,

WITHYHAM,

SUSSEX.

 

Dear Miss Sampson

 

This note is to introduce to you Mr Lazló [sic] the great portrait painter, who is so full of admiration of your things & is very anxious to find some little presents of small jade ornaments & even the ordinary

 

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Mandarine [sic] necklaces .etc etc: I am sure you wont mind sharing them to anybody so appreciative.

 

Please tell Mr [Spier?[1]] that I am writing to you instead of him as I hardly like to bother him for such small things. but I am sure he would like my friend very much, if he

 

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had a moment to spare

 

Yrs very sincerely

Evelyn Benson

LR

30/03/2020


[1] Possibly Julius Spier (1848-1923), manager and later head of S. M. Franck, an established dealer of Chinese antiquities and importer of objects from India, Japan, Turkey and Persia.