DLA007-0053  Multiple letters; Transcriptions

WILTON HOUSE,

SALISBURY.

Dec 4th 1909

Dear Herr Laszlo,

Thank you so much for sending me your Pope [4509] – He is delightful - & when I looked at him at once there came back to my mind, the scene in the Sistine Chapel many years ago – when I saw him carried through in procession – this was a wonderful face and it must have been a most interesting one to paint – obviously you found it so!

I will now fulfill my part of the bargain and send you photograph [sic] of this place, but I am afraid there is not one in existence of the bit you liked so much looking down the side of the house and the dark path. My dog is looking twice as beautiful now he has got some muscle on him, & fit to be painted with any monarch! If you really want to do him – and bits of the house too – Lady Pembroke^[1] would be delighted if you could come down later on – and spend

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some days here, after Christmas –

I hope some day to take advantage of your invitation and come and see your pictures –

Yours sincerely

Muriel Herbert.

[On the same page – draft reply from de László in Lucy de László’s hand]:

Dear Lady Muriel

I thank you so very much for remembering to send the photos – I am so glad to have them, they just give me the right views of that beautiful historic house, which contains so many great art treasures.

I would have replied sooner, but my days are so full in London, I waited till I was in the country again [unfinished]

CC

26/07/06