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HÔTEL BEAU SÉJOUR

LAUSANNE

31 Jan [19]13

Dear Mrs. De Laszlo.

I am adding a few lines to Carola’s to thank you both and to say I’m so sorry that you had to pay so much postage — I had great difficulty here with the post but finally arranged to send it registered for 75 centimes — I see you had to pay more than 2fs.^[1] 

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I’m so sorry — I suppose an autograph book is something exceptional —

I hope your husband’s leg is now alright.  I am sending this to London as I don’t know yr foreign address after you leave Wiesbaden —

The Bradley Keilers have just arrived at the Hotel — he is a wonderful pianist and were he in want of funds he could play professionally anywhere he

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delights us all here and there. They live in Paris — but are Americans — We are having our ordinary sort of life — occasional expeditions for sport and nights bridge.  

I was going above Les avants for ski-ing today — but the weather broke boisterous.

With Kind Regards to you both | Yours Sincerely

W.F. Dundonald Cochrane

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Mind you remember me most kindly to any members of your family — [illegible] remember me.

GG

11/07/2006