DLA037-0042  Translation

DR OTTÓ LÉGRÁDY

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF PESTI HIRLAP

Budapest, 5th March 1937

Dear Friend,

I can only approve of your decision to spare yourself unnecessary fatigue and to have dictated your letter in English. The more so because this causes us not the slightest inconvenience, since there are people who can translate it for me with no trouble.

Kornis^[1] has also invited me to accompany him on his trip to London. I need hardly say how much I would like to be able to do so and thus I would have an opportunity to visit you. Hopefully, though, I won’t have to wait until the summer to see you, because in the meantime your health will be fully restored and there will be no obstacle to your coming to us here. Now that the inclement winter weather is over, I am sure that you will quickly regain your former strength and be able to devote yourself to your beloved labours once more.

It will really be a very good thing if you remember to look after yourself while the Coronation is going on, so that the frequent visitors

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do not make too many demands of you. The main thing is for you to avoid unnecessary exertion.

We are currently in the process of putting together our Coronation issue.^[2] I hope that readers will be drawn not only by its splendid cover – which will be adorned with reproductions of works by you^[3] – but that they will also be interested in the contents.

My respects to your honoured wife^[4] and greetings to you from your old friend,

Ottó Légrády

Editorial Note:

Doctor Ottó Légrády (1878–1948), editor-in-chief of the Pesti Hírlap newspaper from 1919 to 1944.

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25/10/2009