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29 April 1911

Dear Mr László

The station is Wimbledon Park, and you can go there direct from Gloucester Road in something between 20 minutes and half an hour. I will

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look out for you in the train, which 2 [join?] at Earl’s Court, and, if we do not meet there, at the Golf Club at 9.40 to morrow. I am very glad you can come and hope the weather will be kind.

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The Golf Club is quite close to Wimbledon Park station.

Yours sincerely

Rhuvon Guest

Editorial Notes:

Arthur Rhuvon Guest (1869-1946) [5403], the letter’s author, was an Egyptologist with great scholarship who notably worked at the British Museum. An abundant correspondence between the Guests and the de Lászlós shows how close their two families were. Rhuvon Guest helped de László during his internment, acting as a witness of his good character in December 1917, along with Arthur Bowlby. The two men are described in de László’s account as “intimate friends.”^[1]

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