DLA016-0005 Translation
Wien
17.11.[19]26.
Dear Friend,
Thank you very much for receiving the Pagenstecher’s[1] from Wiesbaden so cordially and also for having shown Stoddard in Meran the attention that I desired.[2] But also a word about what Mrs. Pagenstecher has written to me so that you are in the know. And to that end I send you her letter to me.[3] Also the letter of her stepfather, Dr. Fleischer.[4] Evidently, you can be assured of not having to stay in a hotel if you should one day go to Wiesbaden – where you have already been some years earlier – to recuperate or for a cure. And as I, too, will not have to stay in a hotel, we could arrange to meet there one day. The thermal waters could possibly be good for your leg, and maybe the opportunity would arise to paint Pagenstecher whose wife by the way owns a wonderful castle near
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Bonn[5] where ten years ago I spent an autumnal month as a guest and picked raspberries in the park.
I was pleased to hear good things about your boy Patrick.[6] But why does he never let me know how he is? I also hope that Johnny[7] has a good time at his school.
I am, dear friend, sending you my warmest greetings and ask you to convey my devotion to Mrs. de Laszlo, Your faithfully devoted,
Sigmund Münz
Editorial Note:
Sigmund Münz (1859-1934), Austrian journalist and writer; for biographical notes see [6377].
LV
08/04/2021
[1] Doctor Adolf Friedrich Hermann Pagenstecher (1877-1959) and his wife, Mrs Irma Pagenstecher, née Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1884-1946)
[2] John Lawson Stoddard (1850-1931), American author. See DLA016-0013, letter from Sigmund Münz to de László, undated, in which Münz asks de László to send a signed copy of his portrait of Count Péter Vay de Vaja (1864-1948) to Stoddard (Stoddard had seemingly owned a copy of the portrait, but it had been damaged).
[3] DLA016-0004, letter from Irma Pagenstecher to Sigmund Münz, 8 November 1926
[4] DLA016-0003, letter from Richard Fleischer to Sigmund Münz, 3 November 1926
[5] Schloss Allner, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia
[6] Patrick David de Laszlo (1909-1980) [9205], fourth son of Philip and Lucy de László
[7] John Adolphus de Laszlo (1912-1990) [11622], fifth and youngest son of Philip and Lucy de László