DLA011-0013 Transcription

℅ Baronin Bornemisza

Maros Illye

Hunyad, M.

Hungary

24 July [19]08

Dear Mr László,

Thank you very much for writing to me & sending Kossuth’s^[1] answer to your letter - The State Secretary Stérényi^[2] did what we wanted for us on hearing from our friend Baron Josika^[3] that we are honest people - or something to that effect.^[4]

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My wife^[5] & I love your country and its people

This is our fourth summer here -

I hope you will like Scotland as much -

My wife joins me in kind regards & I am | sincerely yours

Adrian Stokes

Enclosed please find the letter from Kossuth.

SMDL

08/11/2017

[1] Likely Ferenc Kossuth (1841-1914), civil engineer, politician and son of Hungarian revolutionary, Lajos Kossuth (1802-94). At the time of this letter, Kossuth was Minister of Commerce. Kossuth had provided Stokes and his wife, Marianne Stokes, with useful information about various places in Hungary, particularly Lake Balaton. The year after this letter was written, Stokes published Hungary. Painted by Adrian & Marianne Stokes. Described by Adrian Stokes, Adam & Charles Black, London, 1909. Stokes describes Kossuth in the book as “an artist of considerable accomplishment, both as sculptor and painter”, q.v. Stokes, p. 268.

[2] Baron József Szterényi (né Stern) (1861-1941), Jewish Hungarian politician

[3] Unclear who Stokes is referring to, perhaps Baron Sámuel (Samu) Jósika de Branyicska (1848-1923), Hungarian politician

[4] See related DLA011-0015, letter from Adrian Scott Stokes to de László, 27 June 1907

[5] The Austrian painter Marianne Stokes, née Preindlsberger (1855-1927)