DLA008-0004 Transcription
Gawthorpe Hall,
Burnley, Lancashire.
July 8 1913
Dear Mr László,
Our Old Northlanders Club hope you will accept this with our very many thanks.[1] I hope you will think it fairly good.
With kind remembrances to Mrs de Laszlo.[2]
Yrs sincerely,
RB Kay Shuttleworth
Editorial Note:
The Honourable Rachel Beatrice Kay-Shuttleworth (1886–1967), third daughter of Liberal MP, Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe (1844–1939). She was the founder of Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, formerly the Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth Collection.
SMDL
13/10/2017
[1] The Committee of the Old Northlanders Club had commissioned de László to paint a portrait of the Founder and Headmistress of Northlands School, Sophie Weisse [2097]. For details of the commission, see DLA011-0054, letter from the Honourable Rachel Beatrice Kay-Shuttleworth to de László, 3 July 1912.
[2] Mrs Philip de László, née Lucy Madeleine Guinness (1870–1950) [11474]