DLA002-0041  Transcription

Downing Street,

16th December, 1913.

Dear Sir,

I am desired by Mr Harcourt
[1] to inform you that he has received an artist's proof, signed by you, of Mr Oakley Williams's reproduction of your portrait of the late Mr Alfred Lyttelton [6127]. Mr Harcourt is most grateful for the picture, which will take its place in the gallery of Secretaries of State which is maintained at the Colonial Office

Yours truly,

F.G.A. Butler

P.A.de L.LASZLO, ESQ., M.V.O.

CC

02/02/2006


[1] Lewis Vernon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt (1863-1922), British Liberal Party politician who held the Cabinet post of Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1910 to 1915