DLA123-0142 Transcription
10, Downing Street,
Whitehall, S.W.
Monday [accompanying envelope postmarked Jun30[19]08]
Dear M. Laszló
I quite understand & am so sorry about alfred East[1] but I think in November I shall get my husband to do it – Will you look in this Thursday between 5 & 6 not later than 5 30 [to?] tea in my garden Friday 10th I will come
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to you at 11 wherever yr studio is & you’ll do what you can with my very thin & not quite “in drawing” face [9769]. You must do my husband[2] in the Autumn session if we can arrange things
We are horribly poor & I xpect [sic] you are too but I am not afraid
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of discussing this with you –
Today is [Monday?] & I shall hope to see you in the garden even for 15 then Thursday at 5
Yrs
Margaret Asquith
Editorial Note:
Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, née Margaret Emma Alice ‘Margot’ Tennant; wife of 1st Earl (1864-1945); for biographical notes, see [9769].
HJ
04/02/2020
[1] Sir Alfred Edward East (1844-1913) [3385], British landscape painter and Royal Academician
[2] Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852-1928), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1908-1915)