DLA073-0011 Transcription

17th June /[19]24

My dear Mr de Laszlo

I will be very proud to have my portrait [5990] in your exhibition and it shall go to the French Gallery on 20th.^[1]

Thank you very much for saying that you will send some invitations to my friends – would you

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very kindly send them to my 4 sisters!^[2] and a friend – I enclose a list – and my mother-in-law!^[3] Kind remembrance

Yours very sincerely

Roger Keyes

Editorial Note:

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

19/05/2006

[1] De László’s portrait of Lord Keyes [5990] was exhibited as no. 12 in the following exhibition: French Gallery, London, A Series of Portraits and Studies by Philip A. de László, M.V.O., June 1924.

[2] Mrs Charles Wintour, née Katherine Mary Keyes (d. 1956); Phyllis Marion Keyes (1881–1968); Lady Gough, née Dorothea Agnes Keyes (1874–1962); Madeline Helen Keyes (1886–1964)

[3] Mrs Edward Salvin Bowlby, née Elizabeth Vans Agnew (1854–1937)