DLA123-0127 Transcription
Kiel
KENSINGTON YOUNG. ST BO.W [postmarked]
DE 25 [19]13 [postmarked]
TO Professor De. Laszlo
3 Palace Gate London W
Received your letter with best thanks portrait [possibly 10183][1] not yet arrived am [waiting?][2]
– Heinrich
Editorial Note:
Prince Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Russia (1862-1929) [10183]
HJ
03/12/2019
[1] Prince Heinrich signed the artist’s sitters’ book: Heinrich Prinz v. Preussen. / London 12th December 1913. / Man liebt nur in der Jugend, / Man küszt nur wenn es mait- / Mach lustiger alter Falter, / Liebt auch im hohen Alter, / und küszt selbst wenn es schneit! [One loves only in youth / One kisses only in May / Have fun, old moth / Love also in old age / And kiss even when it is snowing!], Sitters’ Book I, f. 95.
[2] See related telegram sent later the same day confirming the arrival of the portrait: DLA123-0128, telegram from Prince Heinrich of Prussia to de László, 25 December 1913.