DLA166-0010 Transcription

9, EGERTON PLACE,

S.W.3.

30/12/[19]18.

Dear Mrs. de Laszlo,

My wife^[1] and I are very glad to know that your family were reunited for X’mas & can understand all that it means to you & to Mr. de Laszlo to be once more together & to have all your children with you.^[2]

I hope that there will be no more partings & that the New Year will be a happier one for you and yours than this sad year has been.

Yours sincerely,

Austen Chamberlain.

Editorial Note:

Sir (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937), British Conservative politician; Chancellor of the Exchequer (1903-1905) (1919-1921), Foreign Secretary (1924-1929); for biographical notes, see [3797].

StdeL

30/08/2023

[1] Lady Austen Chamberlain, née Ivy Muriel Dundas (1878-1941) [3801]

[2] De László’s solicitor during his internment, Sir Charles Russell (1863-1928) [6657], negotiated the artist’s release from the nursing home in Ladbroke Gardens where he had been kept under house arrest, and gave him a home at Littleworth Corner. Permitted to live there by the Home Secretary, de László remained on strict parole. The artist lived at Littleworth Corner with Lucy and their five sons until his trial. They moved 18 December 1918, just in time for their first Christmas together for two years; for further details see [6677].