DLA123-0014  Transcription

36, WIMPOLE STREET.

W.1.

14th December 1926.

Dear Mr de Laszlo,

I was delighted to get news of you & thank you most sincerely for your very kind remembrance of your suggestion to paint a portrait sketch of me [112319].^[1] Nothing would give us greater pleasure & I [shall?] gratefully look forward to the prospect. As to sittings

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I wonder whether you are to be in London early in Jan & whether you wd then have any spare time then? The [thing?] is I am leaving London on Dec 22nd for the childrens holidays in Somerset & I do not expect to be back in London until early in the New Year. If therefore this sort of time suits your

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convenience it wd prevent my having to curtail the short holiday I get with my family.

I shall hope to have the pleasure of seeing you before we leave London & perhaps we could then settle some dates. Meanwhile please accept my warmest thanks for your kind suggestion.

Yours very sincerely

Cromer

Editorial Note:

Rowland Thomas Baring, 2nd Earl of Cromer (1877-1953) [4263], Lord Chamberlain of the Household from 1922 to 1938.

DLA123-0114 is a duplicate of this item.

LR

28/08/2019