DLA123-0048 Transcription

[in another hand] To Philip de Lazlo [esq?]

187, ST JAMES’ COURT,

BUCKINGHAM GATE,

S. W. 1.

8 October 1925

Dear Mr de Lazlo

The picture [5010] has come home and I am more pleased than ever with it.

As so generously arranged by & with you I enclose my cheque for £150 – & will send you

[Page 2]

another for the same amount next March.^[1] –

I hope you & Mrs. de Lazlo will have a very successful trip to U.SA.^[2] [sic] and with kindest Regards to you both from us both

Yours v [sincerely?]

Gideon Murray

Master of Elibank

[in another hand] ELIBANK

28/11/2018

[1] In June 1925, de László received a letter from Lord Elibank commissioning a “small portrait” of his wife for ₤300. Lord Elibank requested that he may be allowed to make payment in installments, the first in October and the second in March of the following year due to “a good many financial responsibilities which I cannot evade!” (see DLA067-0035, letter from Lord Murray of Elibank to de László, 15 June 1925).

[2] De László was in America from October 1925 to April 1926.