DLA123-0118 Transcription
121 Sloane Street
S.W.1.
Sept 7th 1923
My Dear de Lászlo
Thank you very much for your letter. I am just going away for a week, when I come back I should like to fetch the Picture [111822]: very much. I also want to buy some photo’s [sic] of it if you will tell me the Photographer who has taken it.
The Crown Prince is in London now, with his fiancée.[1]
Poor Greece[2] – what a mess this world is in
Ever yours
Mark Kerr
Editorial Note:
Admiral Mark Edward Frederic Kerr (1864-1944) [111822], British Royal Navy Admiral; Royal Air Force Major-General, and Deputy Chief of the Air Staff in 1918. Kerr published extensively on British naval history.
LR
28/08/2019
[1] The Crown Prince of Sweden, later Gustaf VI Adolf, King of Sweden (1882-1973), and his fiancée, Lady Louise Alexandra Marie Irene Mountbatten, formerly Princess Louise of Battenberg, later Queen Louise of Sweden (1889-1965) [3481]
[2] Kerr had been Naval attaché to Italy, Austria, Turkey and Greece (1903-1904); Head of the British Naval Mission to Greece and Commander in Chief of the Greek Navy (1913-1915), and Commander in Chief of the British Squadrons in the Adriatic (1916-1917).