DLA016-0137  Transcription

9 WILBRAHAM PLACE,

S.W.1.

Wednesday

Dear Mrs de Laszlo,

Thank you so very much for your kind invitation to your party tomorrow evening  I should so much enjoy coming but my girl has got up a small play & I had promised to see her act with some cousins it is fixed for tomorrow in the country. I wonder if I might come, if I can leave in time to come to you. It seems rather

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rude to ask if I may do this & if it is at all inconvenient will you ask Miss [Wigmore?] to tell me. it might be very inconvenient but if I might leave your kind invitation open – it would be so nice to come if I could manage it.

It is so very good of you to ask me. Then you are going to Egypt.^[1] I know my brother would so like to meet you & your husband. I do hope you will let him know you are going – or let me do so?

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I was so sorry not to see you when you were at [Gordan Bash?]

Yours sincerely

E Pilkington

SMDL

31/12/2017