DLA026-0256 Transcription

GARRICK CLUB,

W.C.2.

[Friday?]

My dear Mr. Philip de Laszilo [sic] –

May I say what a great delight & honour it was to meet you today – I shall certainly hope to get £1000 for your Canvas I wish I were rich I would gladly subscribe £2000^[1] – My respects to Mrs. DeLasilo [sic]

Yours v. sincerely

Seymour Hicks

Editorial Note:

Sir (Edward) Seymour Hicks (1871–1949), Actor-manager

SMDL

12/07/2019

[1] Possibly related to de László’s agreement to offer a blank canvas to be auctioned by Seymour Hicks on 8 December 1932 in aid of the Victoria Hospital for Children, see DLA019-0245, letter from de László to Mrs Alfhild Guinness, 18 November 1932, and DLA019-0241, letter from de László to Arthur G. Ferard, 21 November 1932. The successful bidder was Henry Astell Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough (1889–1945), who commissioned de László to paint a portrait of his wife, Lady Ellenborough, née Helen Dorothy Lovatt (1900–2002) [5012]. See also related item DLA026-0257, letter from Seymour Hicks to de László, undated [possibly December 1932].