DLA123-0064 Transcription

65, BROOK STREET,

W.1.

June 6. [19]23

Dear Mr. de Laszlo

My daughter in law’s picture [3143] is immensely admired, not only by the family.^[1]

I saw nothing in your most successful exhibition^[2] that I liked better.

Now that it is an accomplished fact will you kindly let me know the amount of my debt to you

With best congratulations

Yours sincerely

Lansdowne

[Draft reply in the artist’s hand on verso]

Dear Lord Lansdowne

Your warm appreciation of Lady Kerry’s portrait [3143] gives me very great pleasure, & I thank you for your kind letter.

I have seen the photograph, it is good, & I hope you will like it.

Editorial Note:

Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquis of Lansdowne (1845-1927), British statesman; for biographical notes, see [5960].

28/11/2018

[1] On 16 February 1904, Elizabeth Caroline Hope (1885–1964) married the 5th Marquis of Lansdowne’s eldest son, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry William Edmund Petty-Fitzmaurice, Earl of Kerry (1872–1936), later 6th Marquis of Lansdowne, who succeeded to the title in 1927.

[2] The French Gallery, London, A Series of Portraits and Studies by Philip A. de Laszlo, M.V.O., June 1923