DLA019-0043  Transcription

Albert E. Marriott, Limited.

Publishers

Directors:

Albert E. Marriott.

R. Dent.

37/38, Golden Square

London W.1.

10th June, 1930.

M. Roberts, Esq.,

Secretary to Philip de Laszlo, Esq., M.V.O.,

3 Fitzjohns Avenue,

N.W.3.

Dear Sir,

Many thanks for your letter of 9th June.^[1] I now have much pleasure in sending you a cheque herewith, for 10 guineas, in payment for Mr. de Laszlo’s article dealing with art in 2030.^[2]

We are preparing for publication a handsome volume to be entitled “THE ITALIAN ARTISTS AS MEN,” and I have been wondering whether Mr. de Laszlo would allow me to submit a set of proofs of this book to him in the hope that he might write a few words in introduction. This would indeed be a courtesy on his part, if he would agree to do so.

Yours very truly,

ALBERT E. MARRIOTT LIMITED.

A. E. Marriott

Director.

Editorial Note:

Albert E. Marriott, one of a number of pseudonyms of Netley Lucas (c. 1903-1940), an infamous fraudster and self-proclaimed “aristocrat of crooks” who had, in 1925, authored the best-selling The Autobiography of a Crook.

SMDL

27/05/2018