DLA017-0068 Transcription

45, PONT STREET,

S.W.1.

April 4th 1930

Dear Mr de Laszlo,

It was very kind of you to send that beautiful little cross to the exhibition. & to send for it again today.^[1] It was very much admired.

Yours sincerely,

Alice M. Godman

Editorial Note:

Dame Alice Mary Godman, née Chaplin (1868-1944), Deputy President of the British Red Cross Society; second wife of Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919), British lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist

SMDL

12/01/2018

[1] Possibly a reference to the Royal Amateur Art Society’s annual exhibition held in Lord and Lady’s Bathurst’s London residence at Belgrave Square in April 1930; Dame Alice Godman had assembled a loan exhibition in an adjoining room (see, for example, “Royal Amateur Society”, Cheltenham Chronicle, Saturday 5th April 1930, p.2).