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Trent Cottage,

Cromer,

9 August, 1913

My dear De Laszlo,

Many thanks for your letter. It was very good of you to write. I look forward when you both return to seeing you and hope that we shall both be

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able to meet at Roehampton so as to see how your golf has improved. They have altered the Cromer links and made them much better. The weather is really most pleasant and the air is invigorating. We have got a

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nice little house with an attractive garden and plenty of room for children to run about and play hide-and-seek in. We wish you were all here.

How glad you must be of a rest after all your strenuous

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exertions!

Yours sincerely

Rhuvon Guest

Editorial Notes:

Arthur Rhuvon Guest (1869-1946) [5403], the letter’s author, was an Egyptologist with great scholarship who notably worked at the British Museum. An abundant correspondence between the Guests and the de Lászlós shows how close their two families were. Rhuvon Guest helped de László during his internment, acting as a witness of his good character in December 1917, along with Arthur Bowlby. The two men are described in de László’s account as “intimate friends.”^[1]

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