DLA106-0048 Transcription

H.M.S. Revenge

℅ General Post Office

London E.C.

June 28th 1923.

Dear Mr. de Laszlo,

Edwina^[1] has forwarded your letter to me and I at once wrote a personal letter to the Prince^[2] urging him most strongly to visit your exhibition.^[3] In addition to this I have followed

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the matter up by writing to his Private Secretary, as well, about the matter.^[4] Your letter had to be forwarded twice before it reached me, so though you wrote it on the 24th I’ve only just received it, which makes time rather short for the Prince, I fear.

On all hands I hear nothing but praise of the exhibition & I cannot tell you how sorry I am not to have been able to see it.

I think the picture you painted of Edwina [3178] is the best & most lovely one you have ever done & I can never be grateful enough to you for putting her wonderful loveliness on permanent record –

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Kind regards to your wife.^[5]

Yours sincerely

Dickie Mountbatten

Editorial Note:

Louis Mountbatten, First Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900–1979), First Sea Lord and last British Viceroy of India and first Governor-General; for biographical notes, see [3510].

SMDL

25/01/2023

[1] Dame Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma; née Hon. Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley (1901–1960) [3178]

[2] Edward Albert Christian George, Prince of Wales; later King Edward VIII of Great Britain, other title The Duke of Windsor (1894–1972)

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

[4] See related item DLA106-0047, letter from Sir Godfrey Thomas to Lord Louis Mountbatten, 29 June 1923

[5] Mrs Philip de László, née Lucy Madeleine Guinness (1870–1950) [11474]