DLA058-0054  Transcription 

26th July, 1930.

I wish to thank you for your very appreciative letter.[1] I am so glad to know that the portrait I painted of your charming little Jane [6859] gives you pleasure and satisfaction, and that you like the photographs.

I must reiterate that the hours which I spent painting your beautiful daughter were an unusual pleasure to me, and she was a constant inspiration.

I much hope that, when I hold my next Exhibition in London, you will be good enough to allow me to include in it my portrait of Jane.

Please remember me kindly to Mrs. Bendir,[2] and believe me

Yours sincerely,

SMDL

25/05/2020


[1] DLA058-0055, letter from Arthur Bendir to de László, 24 July 1930

[2] Mrs Arthur Bendir, née Ernestine Marguerite ‘Margot’ Louise Erskine; other married name Mrs Richard Murray McGusty (1881–1954)