DLA016-0051  Partial letter; transcription

1.URI UTCA 64

Budapest

27th August 1926 –

My dear Philipp!

Many, many thanks for your so kind letter. It was for us all a great pleasure to hear about your new successes. I must congratulate you to the most important portrait of the Archbishop of Canterbury [4632], the portraits of President Coolidge [4169] and Mrs Coolidge [4171]

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are very beatiful, but I admire very much Mellons portrait [6418] too. In the general decadence of the world, wich we see every day in every directions it is a glorious thing to know, that you are better as ever and eternśoŕy your Art in a period of uncertainty and decadency. We both but with me many friends are congratulating you most heartily. I am going to-morrow with the

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Governor of Hungary Admiral Horthy, with Archduke Joseph, and Joseph Franz, Archduchess Anna, Papal Nuntio and Minister of [Triplis? or Puplis] [Instructions?], Count Klebelsberg^[1] to Mohács, where on the 29 of August 1526 – there are 400 years – The Kings of Hungary Louis II, all the bishops and many distingused Hungarians lost their life in the battle-field defending western culture and Christianity against the Ottomans.^[2]

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Perhaps it have been wiser to be more selfish and let them to pass through Hungary to Vienna and France, – so perhaps we would have now not sorrow and slavery, but rennaissance of our Country like Rumania and Servia, which Countries didn’t resist to the Turks.

Of course I shall do my possible in the interests of your [illegible]. [Marczi?]^[3]

Editorial Notes:

Although the letterheads are different, this item possibly continues as DLA016-0052, letter from István Bárczy de Bárcziháza to de László, no date.

István Bárczy de Bárcziháza (1882-1952), Private Secretary to successive Hungarian Prime Ministers, later Permanent Undersecretary of State in the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office and close friend of de László; for biographical notes, see [111342].

SMDL

11/12/2017