DLA123-0141  Transcription

[in another hand] 10-17.

10, Downing Street,

Whitehall. S.W.

26th [accompanying envelope postmarked “Jun26[19]08”]^[1]

Dear Mr. Laszlo

You wrote me to 20 Cav Sq & I live here now! – Sorry about East^[2] I did my best it was too late –

If you make a very slight sketch of me [9769] I wd love you to do my husband^[3] but I will be very

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2)

honest – we are poor & spend every penny on entertaining & [illegible] sort of necessary duty.

I cd go to your studio Tuesday 11 o’clock

You had better lunch here Monday 1 30 

Make up your mind to make me plain but interesting & show my eyes wh have more meaning than

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my mouth wh is rather mixed & my nose was broken out hunting & is not so much a feature now as a limb! –

Yrs

M Asquith

Editorial Note:

Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, née Margaret Emma Alice ‘Margot’ Tennant (1864-1945); for biographical notes, see [9769].

HJ

28/01/2020