DLA005-0023  Translation

Naphegy.

1905. 15. V

My dear László,

As you have written in your kind letter, you are so kind to exhibit my carpets at your highly valued exhibition.

I have just finished my second carpet and I am asking you to let me know where to send it.

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I would love to cause you as little inconveniences as possible. My first carpet is being [illegible] by some very enthusiastic ladies, therefore I am only sending this one to London.

The price I am asking for it is 1500 Forint because it is smaller than the previous one.

It would be a real blessing for me

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if I could sell it because the money would enable me to repay the debt my sweet János left behind.

Our house was taken over by the Saving Bank in Pozsony^[1] in return for the debt, since there was no one to buy. There is still 9000 Forint debt left — in exchange for the claims of hewers, bronze factory and doctors.

This is such a serious concern

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for a lonely woman.

I beg your pardon for disturbing you with my words.

Greeting you and your dear family with my kind regards. | Yours sincerely,

Mrs. János Fadrusz

I kindly ask you to give an answer, because I am only staying here until the 30th of this month. Then I have to leave Pest.

Editorial Note:

The writer is the widow of the sculptor János Fadrusz who had died on 26th October 1903. János Fadrusz was the preeminent Hungarian monumental sculptor at the turn of the twentieth century, and his wife, the letter's sender, was a sculptress and painter who was a fellow student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. From 1896 she exhibited pastel portraits at the Műcsarnok gallery in Budapest, and she also designed and wove carpets. See [5030] for further biographical details of the sender and her husband.

Pd’O (summary)

26/03/2009

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RE (translation)

17/03/2021