DLA018-0009 Transcription

14, BUCKINGHAM PALACE GARDENS,

S.W.1.

MAY 10.[19]’32

My dear de Laszló

Your Magdalen.

You must not touch that mouth or those eyes again. You cannot improve them, they are wonderful and

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you might easily spoil them.^[1]

Yours ever

Selborne

Nil respondendum

Editorial Note:

William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne (1859-1942); for biographical notes, see [6965].

SMDL

07/04/2018

[1] Possibly a reference to de László’s portrait of Professor George Henry Falkiner Nuttall (1862-1947) for Magdalene College, Cambridge [6552]. Nuttall signed the sitters’ book on 6th May 1932 (Sitters’ Book II, f. 73), just four days before Lord Selborne wrote this letter.