DLA019-0273  Transcription 

10th December, 1932.

Dear Mr. Duveen,

I was very pleased to receive your letter of the 8th.^[1]

I am sure your Banquet will be a most cheerful one, and I am much looking forward to it.

Will you kindly let me know where you wish the canvas [10040] sent, and if you so desire I would send with it a collapsible easel for it to stand on. It would probably be advisable to put it in a frame, and the successful bidder could afterwards purchase the frame if he likes it, or, as has been done before on similar occasions, the amount bid for the picture could be such as to include the cost of the frame.^[2] I always like to paint in a frame, but I leave this point to your own consideration, if you will just let me know what you decide.

I should be so glad if my Barrister son, Paul de Lászlo,^[3] might be present at the dinner, and if the tickets have not all been allocated perhaps you would be so kind as to send me one for him, for which I enclose my cheque.

Hoping your efforts on behalf of Charing Cross Hospital will be very successful, and as I said in my previous letter, I am very happy to be able to help such a good cause.

Believe me,

Yours sincerely,

Edward J. Duveen, Esq., C.B.E.,

4 Grafton Street, W.1.

Editorial Note:

For Duveen’s reply, see DLA019-0274, letter from Edward J. Duveen to de László, 12 December 1932.

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