DLA073-0016 Transcription

8th Aug / [19]23

Dear Mr de Laszlo

I am sorry to have been so long answering your letter, but as I told your maid on the telephone I have been away – and my letters were not forwarded.

I shall be here except – Saturdays and Sundays until 9th September and will be available on the days you mention at the end of the month

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and in the first days of September.^[1]

Thank you very much for having my wife’s portrait [5980] photographed.^[2] I told Mr Laib^[3] I would like a dozen copies. There are two prints – and I will select one when my wife has seen them.

She crossed from [Scilly?] yesterday and I hope to see her at the place we have taken by the

Editorial Notes:

Letter continues as DLA073-0020.

Admiral Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes (1872–1945); for biographical notes, see [5990].

19/05/2006

[1] De László painted Lord Keyes twice in 1923, see [5983] and [5990].

[2] De László painted two portraits of Lady Keyes. The first, which she rejected, was signed by the artist ‘Study / by de László’ [5978]. At her request, a second portrait was completed [5980].

[3] Paul Ferdinand Anton Laib (1869–1958) [5994]