DLA106-0105 Transcription

PINBURY PARK,

CIRENCESTER.

May 20. [1923]

Dear Mr. de Laszlo

Of course, I cannot refuse, but I said many swear-words and the thought of losing your lovely pictures [4536][3544][2023] at the only time of year that I can enjoy them.

We do not return to London till the 30th and I will write to the housekeeper

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about the pictures, could the man who removes them, unfix the electric lights, & put up other pictures in their place or shall we get another man to do this? We shall look forward with great pleasure & interest to your Exhibition.^[1]

On reading your letter again I am not quite certain whether you wish to have the 3 pictures or only one. We will lend all three with pleasure, indeed you ought to show my daughter’s [4536], it is lovely.^[2]

Yours sincerely

Lilias Bathurst

SMDL

05/02/2023

[1] The French Gallery, London, A Series of Portraits and Studies by Philip A. de László, M.V.O., June 1923

[2] De László’s portraits of Lady Meriel Graham [4536], Countess Bathurst [3544] and Lord Apsley [2023] were exhibited at the above exhibition (French Gallery, June 1923); they were nos. 13, 37 and 61 respectively in the catalogue, see DLA106-0175.