DLA123-0018 Transcription
[Recto]
Sunday, 20th March 1927
Was so glad to receive yr.letter, intended to reach me before my departure. Meantime you will have rcd. my letter, & Dads[1] wants to write to you, but he is awfully busy. He goes mg. + aft. To the Palace & has commands to paint all the 6 children.[2] He has begun the 3 eldest, & likes the 2 boys so much, the older ones. He is treated like an old friend at the Palacio Real. I expect to be invited there next week. – Will you please look for a good Tutor for Pat[3] in Latin, to begin work with him the beginning of May. Pat will return for good now. Your exams are much in my thoughts & I pray you will have success. Much love LdeL
[Verso]
thoughts & I pray you will have success. Much love LdeL.
[address]
SdL
2009
&
LR
13/11/2018
[1] Philip Alexius de László (1869-1937) [9724]
[2] In the Spring of 1927, de László spent seven weeks at the Royal Palace in Madrid, where he painted portraits of King Alfonso XIII (1886-1941) [12400] [12438], his consort Queen Victoria Eugenia (1887-1969) [11735] [12398], and their children: don Alfonso de Borbón y Battenberg, Prince of Asturias (1907-1938) [112235] [8003] [8004]; the Infantes don Jaime (1908-1975) [10852], don Juan (1913-1993) [12015] and don Gonzalo (1914-1934) [8014]; and portraits of the two Infantas doña Beatriz (1909-2002) [8008] [10254], and doña María Cristina (1911-1996) [10854] [112335].
[3] Patrick David de Laszlo (1909-1980) [9205], fourth son of Philip and Lucy de László