DLA015-0005  Transcription

9, Keats Grove,

Hampstead,

N.W.3

July 12th 1924

Dear Mr de Laszlo

My daughter Gwen is today better, & will I think be quite well enough to dance for you at 9.pm tomorrow evening.[1] we were afraid on Thursday evening that she had appendicitis, – but that is not so, & today her temperature is normal.

Yrs truly

Muriel Harter

SMDL

03/12/2017


[1] On 18 July 1924, de László and Lucy held a summer party to which almost fifty guests were invited. After-dinner entertainment consisted of the singer, Mark Raphael, accompanied by the composer, Roger Quilter (1877-1953), and the dancer, Gwen Harter (b. 1904), who made her professional début. Q.v. Hart-Davis, pp. 188-9. See also DLA095-0085. In 1928, Gwen Harter married the artist, Sydney William Carline (1888-1929); the following year Carline died of pneumonia.