DLA017-0097  Transcription

21, PARK CRESCENT,

PORTLAND PLACE, W.1.

Dear Mrs de Laszlo

We should be so pleased if you and your husband could come to the Opera with us to hear Fleidermouse [sic] on May the 6th^[1]

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Our box in No. 52

Hoping very much you will be able to come as it is going to be a very good performance as Lehman Shuman & Olceswska are going to sing.^[2]

Rh. Szarvasy

Editorial Note:

Mrs Frederick Szarvasy, née (Kate Muriel) Rhona Saavedra, wife of Frederick Alexander Szarvasy (1875-1948), Hungarian-born British banker and financier. In 1930, Szarvasy purchased de László’s study portrait of Jenő Rákosi [6729] from the Rákosi family and offered it “to the Hungarian Nation.” The portrait was presented to the Szépművészeti Múzeum [Museum of Fine Arts], Budapest the following year.

SMDL

16/01/2018