DLA123-0072 Transcription

ST AGNES LIGHTHOUSE,

SCILLY.

16 8 [19]29

Dear Mr de Laszló

Thank you so much for your letter. We were so sorry to be away when you came once to lunch at Clandon Regis with your brother in law.^[1] They asked us to come to meet

[in another hand] replied –

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you and I wish we could have done so as we shd like to have taken you to Clandon to see where your pictures [6489] [6492] are hung.^[2] I think you wd approve They are in

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a very good light indeed & show up well I hope you will come in the Autumn & see them. We shall be here about another month & then we

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hope to go to Italy till Nov. I heard from my brother in law^[3] he went to see the Exhibition^[4] & was much impressed with [illegible] [hommages?] [to?] [illegible] Laszló

[Believe?] me | Yours sincerely

Onslow

Editorial Note:

Richard William Alan Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow (1876-1945), British diplomat, peer and politician; for biographical notes, see [6489].

29/11/2018

[1] Lucy de László’s brother, Howard Rundell Guinness (1868-1937) [5494], lived at Clandon Regis, the Dower House of Clandon Park, Lord Onslow’s ancestral home.

[2] See [6489] and [6492]; de László painted Lord Onslow’s portrait in July 1928 [6489]. The Countess should have been portrayed at the same time, but ill-health delayed the execution of her picture [6492] to the following spring. The portraits, which hung at Clandon Park, were destroyed by fire in April 2015.

[3] Possibly Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh (1874-1967), who was married to the 5th Earl of Onslow’s sister, Lady Gwendolen Florence Mary Guinness, Countess of Iveagh, née Onslow (1881-1966)

[4] A reference to either The French Gallery, London, A Series of Portraits and Studies By Philip A. de László, M.V.O., May-June, 1929, or The French Gallery, London, A Series of Portraits and Studies By Philip A. de László, M.V.O., July 1929.