DLA016-0024 Translation

Vienna

6th July 1926

Dear Friend,

the attached letter from Count Mensdorff will inform you about the state of his portrait.^[1] I am still waiting for your American photographs as well as the photo of the portrait of the Archbishop of Canterbury [4632]. At a tea party yesterday at the English embassy the wife of the secretary to the Legation, Leeper, told me that she had seen a photo of the portrait [4632] in the “Times”.^[2] I did not quite understand from your letter if the collection of portraits of archbishops is kept at Lambeth Palace or Church House.

I would very much like to hear from you as soon as possible how you want to arrange your planned trip to Italy in the second half of August and where in Italy you intend to stay.

Greetings to you and yours, I remain devoted in friendship to you and Mrs. de Laszlo

S. Münz

Editorial Note:

Sigmund Münz (1859-1934), Austrian journalist and writer; for biographical notes see [6377].

AG (summary)

03/2009

LV (translation)

12/04/2021

[1] There are several known portraits by de László of Count von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein including [110975], [4697], [4694], and [112197]. De László had previously corresponded with Münz regarding [4694], see DLA016-0063, letter from de László to Sigmund Münz, 3 February 1925. Münz reproduced [4697] in his book King Edward VII at Marienbad: political and social life at the Bohemian spas, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1934.

[2] [4632] was reproduced in The Times, 3 July 1926, p. 18.